al-Sham and joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). He reportedly took part in the First Battle of the Shaer gas field in July 2014 with ISIL forces against the Syrian Armed Forces. In the summer of 2014, Daniela Greene, an FBI translator who had been investigating Cuspert, traveled to Syria in order to marry Cuspert. This occurred without knowledge or authorization of her superiors. She returned to the U.S. a few months later, confessed, and cooperated with authorities, in return for a light two-year prison sentence. "In November 2014, a video was released by the activist group "Deir Ezzore Is Being Slaughtered Silently”, which showed ISIL members shooting and beheading a number of unarmed men, and Cuspert holding a severed head. The video was believed to be from an August 2014 massacre against prisoners from the Sunni Arab Al-Shaitat tribe who had fought against ISIL. Reports of death In April 2014, a number of international media outlets ran erroneous reports based on Islamist online sources that he was killed on 20 April 2014 as a result of infighting amongst the Jihadi groups fighting in Syria, after the rival Al-Nusra Front launched a suicide attack against an ISIL post. However, German newspaper Die Welt quoted other foreign fighters as denying Cuspert's death and attributing the confusion to the death of another ISIL member who also used the alias of Abu Talha Al-Almani. On 16 October 2015, the U.S. Department of Defense informed media outlets that Cuspert had been killed by a U.S. airstrike near Raqqa, Syria. In August 2016, the Pentagon stated that it had been mistaken: Cuspert had survived the strike near the town of Raqqa. In January 2018, the ISIL-linked Wafa' Media Foundation announced his death, accompanying its report with photos of Cuspert's bloodied cadaver. He was reportedly killed in an airstrike during the Deir ez-Zor offensive in the town of Gharanij in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate. Aftermath Cuspert had allegedly fathered three children with three different women. One of his wives, a German of Tunisian descent named Omaima Abdi who was born in 1984 in Hamburg, went to Syria in 2015 with her three children and first husband Nader Hadra from Frankfurt, who was killed while fighting in Kobane. She later married Cuspert, and lived with him in Raqqa, Syria, then she came back to Germany, where she gave birth to her fourth child.