<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">An  Islamic State (IS) leader in Syria and influential online recruiter and bomb-making instructor, Bahrum Naim., who was an Indonesian, has been killed in a drone strike in Syria, according to security sources.</span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />''</span>His propaganda via the Internet radicalised and influenced many Indonesians to join IS in Syria. He also recruited people to become suicide bombers, including two Indonesian maids.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />''</span>It was previously reported that Naim was killed in November last year but authorities were not able to verify his death. Regional security officials expect his death to weaken IS propaganda and funding in Indonesia in the short term.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />''</span>Naim is known to be a major source of funding for terror attacks and activities in Indonesia and he was placed on the United Nations Security Council Sanctions list in July 2017.</div>