Ifthekar Jaman left his home in Portsmouth earlier this year and joined an Al Qaeda group fighting in Syria
Details have not revealed exactly how the 23-year-old died
Jaman boasted on BBC’s Newsnight he was ‘fighting a Holy war’
Four other men from Portsmouth’s Jami mosque are believed to be in Syria
A British Muslim fighting in Syria for Al-Qaeda has been killed in the war-torn Middle East country.
Ifthekar Jaman, 23, left his home in Portsmouth, Hampshire, earlier this year to join the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant group battling against Syrian leader President Bashar al-Assad.
Jaman, who told his family he was studying in Turkey, died over the weekend although the circumstances of his death are yet to be revealed.
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