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Fourteen jihadists, including six leaders, were killed in an airstrike by the US military, according to a census of fatalities announced by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, while the US Central Command stated that the raid “targeted a group of senior Al-Qaeda officials in Syria, who gathered near Idlib, “in northwestern Syria. .
Sand United States military On Thursday, an airstrike against leaders of the Al-Qaeda organization in northwestern Syria, in an attack that, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, killed 14 jihadists, including 6 leaders.
The US Central Command (Sentcom) said in a statement that “US forces launched an attack on a group of senior Al-Qaeda officials in Syria, who were gathering near Idlib.”
“The elimination of these al-Qaeda leaders in Syria will reduce the terrorist organization’s ability to plan and carry out attacks that threaten US citizens, our partners and innocent civilians,” he added.
Britain-based director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdel-Rahman said the bombing was carried out by a drone, aimed at a dinner in the town of Gakkara in the Salqin field near the border. Syrian-Turkish, killing 14 jihadists, including six leaders.
He added that “among the dead were five jihadists of nationality other than Syria,” he did not immediately specify, noting that three of the dead belonged to the Headquarters for the Liberation of Al-Sham, “including two leaders from the front row.”
According to the Observatory, the raid targeted “a meeting that included leaders of the Al-Sham Liberation Headquarters and other jihadists on a farm in the town of Jakara.”
For its part, “Ibaa Network”, speaking on behalf of the Headquarters for the Liberation of Al-Sham, said that “an air strike with drones targeted a tent belonging to one of the dignitaries in the city of Jakara in the western camp of Idlib “, which caused deaths and injuries, the number of which was not specified.
France 24 / AFP
