Complex sentence: A lieutenant-colonel when commander of the police special forces of the Interior Ministry of Tajikistan until 2015, he has since defected to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Split into simpler sentences: A Lieutenant-Colonel, he was commander of the police special forces of the Interior Ministry of Tajikistan until 2015. He has since defected to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).