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US forces launched an attack on a group of senior Al-Qaeda officials in Syria who were gathering in Idlib, near the Turkish border.
Seventeen extremists and five civilians were killed in a raid in which the US military targeted leaders of the Al-Qaeda organization during a “dinner banquet” in the Idlib countryside, northwestern Syria.
And the US Central Command (Sentcom) announced in a statement that “US forces launched an attack on a group of senior Al-Qaeda officials in Syria who were meeting” in Idlib, near the Turkish border. The statement did not specify how many people were killed in the raid. For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights recorded the deaths of 17 extremists, including 11 leaders, in addition to five civilians, as a result of the raid, which targeted a dinner held in a tent inside a farm in the village of Jakara in the Salqin area near the Turkish border. Among the dead were five extremists of nationalities other than Syria, whose nationalities he could not determine.
The Director of the Observatory, Rami Abdul Rahman, said that “leaders who have defected from the HTS, opposing the Russian-Turkish truce agreements with other extremists close to the Guardians of Religion Organization”, were present at the dinner.
The raid came on Thursday, hours after a source familiar with the beheading of French history professor Samuel Batey, after showing cartoons, announced that the attacker, a Russian refugee of Chechen origin, had been in contact with an extremist from speaks Russian in Syria.
On the other hand, the “observatory” reported yesterday afternoon (Russian bombing) from the Hmeimim base at a gas station in Jarablus, which is controlled by pro-Turkish factions, near Aleppo.
Source: Middle East
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