Abu Umar al-Almani

Biography

Born in 1986 in Stuttgart into a partially German Muslim family, Yamin Abou-Zand grew up in Baden-Württemberg until moving with his parents to Königswinter in 2000. There, he married a German Muslim and rented his own apartment. The couple had no children and lived secluded, though neighbors said that they were generally nice people. Yamin also began working at the Deutsche Telekom in the department for Recruiting and Talent-Acquisition, where he was initially considered to be a "promising, committed and very courteous employee". (Translated from German; in the original this reads: "vielversprechender, engagierter und sehr höflicher Mitarbeiter".) during clashes near Tabqa Dam.