Longtime German Muay Thai fighter Valdet Gashi was reportedly executed for attempting to escape the IS stronghold.
German fighter and former Muay Thai champion Valdet Gashi, who was reportedly killed last month during an airstrike in Syria, actually died under far different circumstances.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (h/t Fightland), Gashi was executed by IS militants for attempting to escape the extremist group's stronghold. According to the report, Gashi was "trying to escape with another group from IS-held areas in the northern countryside of Aleppo, where IS dragged them to an IS jail in the city of Manbej northeast of Aleppo.