Born: 29 June 1983;

Place of Birth: Stavropol Region, Russia;

Nationality: Russia;

Passport Number: 620169661 (Russia); alt. 9103314932 (Russia), issued 16 August 2003;

Activities:

Atabiyev swore an oath of allegiance to ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in December 2013.

Atabiyev who also goes by Abu Jihad, is an ethnic Karachai who is responsible for Furat Media, the Russian-language media arm for the IS group (previous-he was mistakenly identified as a Chechen).

In October 2013, ISIL appointed Atabiyev as governor of the town of Al-Dana in Syria’s Idlib province after he participated in battles against Syrian regime forces.

In 2013, he also maintained a school in Syria to indoctrinate and train Syrian boys to become future fighters for ISIL.