Abu Tahsin al-Salihi

ISIS members during the War in Iraq (2013–2017), receiving the nicknames "The Sheikh of Snipers" and "Hawk Eye."^[1]

invasion of Kuwait, the Gulf War, and the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.^[2] According to al-Salihi, in the Yom Kippur War he was part of an Iraqi brigade fighting in the Golan Heights.^[1] Around May 2015 al-Salihi joined the Popular Mobilization Forces and was stationed in the Makhoul Mountains in northern Iraq, armed with a Steyr anti materiel rifle.^[2][1] Al-Salihi began fighting ISIS at the Battle of Jurf Al Nasr. He was trained in his sniper skills by the Russian military.^[3]

Shia Muslim. He traveled to Kuwait in the 1970s and worked many jobs there, two of which were being a shepherd of cows and camels. He had a French rifle to protect himself and with which he hunted rabbits, from this he gained knowledge in hunting and shooting.^{[citation needed}

Second Kurdish–Iraqi War in 1974. Following the outbreak of the War in Iraq in late 2013 and ISIL's Northern Iraq offensive