December 30, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - A Sudanese young man fighting in the ranks of the Islamic State (IS) was killed in a Syrian air force raid in the neighbourhood of the city of Homs.

Abu Bakr Jar al-Nabi (Photo ST)

This brings the number of Sudanese killed while fighting alongside the Jihadist groups in the region to about seventy.

Abu Bakr Mohamed Abdallah Jar al-Nabi was killed in an air-strike near Homs on December 26, according to information obtained by Sudan Tribune.

His family erected a mourning canopy to receive mourners at their home in Khartoum North. His father, Mohamed Jar al-Nabi is a veteran adherent of the Sudanese Islamic movement.

Reliable sources said that Jar al-Nabi (29) had joined the Islamic State (IS) group last year after taking part in battles against the Sudanese rebel groups in the Blue Nile State and elsewhere in the country.

The sources said the young man had gone into hiding long before leaving the country for the IS camps in Syria. However he kept contacts with his family from time to time.

The Jar al-Nabi family has distributed an obituary of the deceased to a limited number of local newspapers. In the release , the family confirmed Abu Bakr’s death, that occurred last Saturday, without going into any details..

In the obituary, the family has made an eulogy of the deceased and wrote some telephone numbers for receiving condolences.

Mohamed Jar al-Nabi, the father, had left Sudan for Uganda some years back after sharp disagreements with influential government figures , who dismissed him as chairman of the ruling party’s parliamentary group (caucus) and as MP.

It is unusual for Sudanese families to advertise in the newspapers the death of their sons fighting in the ranks of Jihadist groups, apart from the family of Mamoun Ahmed Mekki which several months ago published an Ad in which they praised her son Mohamed who had been killed in Syria while fighting in the ranks of the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.

The death of Abu Bakr brings the number of Sudanese youths killed while fighting in IS ranks in Syria to 12. Some 25 Sudanese were killed in Libya in 2013. It is also believed that 12 Sudanese youths were killed in Mali, 10-15 others killed in Iraq , 8 in Somalia and 5 in Yemen, all fighting alongside Jihadist groups.

(ST)