GEORGIA-SYRIA-IRAQ-CONFLICT-AL-SHISHANI

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY IRAKLI METREVELI A picture taken on November 1, 2014 shows Temur Batirashvili, a 70-year-old subsistence farmer as he speaks in his home in Birkiani. White smoke belches from the chimney of a lopsided stone house, mingling with thick fog in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge whose bucolic setting hardly fits its reputation as a jihadist hotbed. The notorious red-bearded fighter Omar Al-Shishani was born Tarkhan Batirashvili in Birkiani, one of six villages in the area populated by Muslim Kists -- descendants of ethnic Chechens who migrated to Georgia in the 19th century. AFP PHOTO / VANO SHLAMOV (Photo by VANO SHLAMOV / AFP) (Photo by VANO SHLAMOV/AFP via Getty Images)