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IS Recruiting Medics For Battlefield First Aid, Treating Foreign Militants

Chechen militant fighting alongside the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria has issued a call on social media for men and women with a medical education to join a "medical battalion" in the extremist group. Adam al-Almany, an ethnic Chechen whose nom de guerre suggests he is from Germany, put out the announcement via the Russian social-networking site VKontakte on April 23.