A 25-year-old Malaysian was reported to have blown himself up, killing 14 regime soldiers and injuring scores of others last month.

According to the New Straits Times, Hasan Zakaria, an Islamic State recruit in Syria, drove a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device towards a group of Kurdistan Workers’ Party soldiers before setting off the device in the southwest town of Ain Issa on Nov 15.

The English daily reported Bukit Aman's Counter-Terrorism division saying Hassan, who went by the the nom de guerre Abu Adam, was the ninth Malaysian suicide bomber to blow themselves up in Syria for IS.

A 38-second video of the attack have apprently gone viral on IS propaganda channels, including those run by the group’s Southeast Asian outposts.

The Special Branch’s Counter-Terrorism principal assistant director Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay was reported to have said news of the latest suicide mission had put an end to an unsolved mystery.

Ayob said a few months ago, the division had reason to believe that Hasan had been killed during close quarters battle with the Syrian army in northern Raqqa.

Hasan, Ayob added, had slipped out of Malaysia with the "help" of his family members.

“Prior to his flight, he was stopped by the authorities. However, Hasan, who was with his whole family, claimed he was heading to Jakarta to send off his brother, who was furthering his studies.

“His parents, brother and sister even supported his alibi. But the minute he got to Indonesia, he boarded a flight to Turkey.” 

Ayob said the former Ajnad Al-Sham member, who joined IS following the death of its leader on Sept 14, 2014, was among the first group of Malaysians who went to Syria to fight the Bashar Al-Assad regime.

The English daily reported there are currently 60 Malaysians, including 12 women and 17 children, in Syria. Eighteen other Malaysians have died for IS in Syria.

Ayob also revealed that three of Hasan’s Malaysian comrades have also died during clashes with the Syrian army. They were Haifi Abdul Halim, from Perak, who left for Syria on June 6 last year with his wife, Nur Athirah Abdul Rahim, Amirul Hakim Azhar, 26, and Abd Azeem Abd Satar, 33.

The last two, who left for Syria with a group of 10 people between Nov 8 and Nov 16, 2014, were from the same IS cell as those previously arrested for testing their bomb at Gunung Nuang.

“Azeem left for Syria with his brother, Muhammad Azizuddin Abd Satar, without the blessings of their family.

“They tried to convince him to return, but he was adamant about being martyred,” Ayob said, adding that Azeem died during an airstrike by Syrian forces.