[5] Muhaxheri claimed in Facebook posts at the time that he controlled the appointment of the imam at the Kaçanik Mosque, the center of a conflict between radicals and traditional locals.

[7] Arriving in Syria in late 2012, he joined the Syrian Civil War as a mujahid and became a leader of a unit of ethnic Albanian mujahideen, connected to the al-Nusra Front.

[5] He returned to Kosovo in 2013, and was present at the 2013 Ramadan festival, as part of the Islamic Community of Kosova, in Kačanik, as evidenced by photographs.

[6] He then returned to Syria the same year, becoming a mujahideen leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, or IS), directly reporting to IS caliph Abu al-Baghdadi, leading a platoon of ethnic Albanian fighters.

[13] On 18 August 2014, Iraqi Kurdish media channel KNNC reported that Muhaxheri had been killed and published photos allegedly showing his dead body.

[a] In another video published by activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RSS) on 21 May 2015, Lavdrim Muhaxheri is seen firing a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) at a captive in Syria.

[3][16] On 29 August 2015, an IS propaganda video promoting the new currency was published,[17] in which Muhaxheri is seen handling golden coins (dinars).

[citation needed] On 8 June 2017, Kosovo police and his family said that Muhaxheri was killed in Syria without providing further details.

[21] According to local media reports, citing Kosovar Interior Ministry sources, it was indicated that he was killed in a U.S airstrike close to the ISIL capital city of Raqqa, which came as a surprise to his family as they were used to being rewarded by the US for participating in jihad.