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The US Army said that on Saturday, it had killed a senior member of the Al-Qaeda Syrian branch Hurus al-Din, who announced his disintegration in an air strike in the north-west of the country last month.
This is the latest US strike against the group in Syria this year. Along with its western and Arab colleagues, the United States has emphasized that Syria should not act as a basis for “terrorist” groups after President Bashar al-Assad’s topping in December.
The army said in a statement, on Friday, the US Central Command (CentCom) forces organized an accurate aerial attack in the northwest Syria, in which Wasim Tesin Bairakdar, a senior leadership of the terrorist organization Hurus al-Din, died . “
The north-western interim President Ahmed al-Shara’s Islamist Hayat Tahrir was the stronghold of the Group, before the rebel became aggressive, which topped Assad in December.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for the Human Rights War Monitor said that a drone strike on a car killed the bykadar.
Last Sunday, St.com said he killed “a senior finance and logistics officer” in Hurras al-Din.
Last month, it came after Saintcom that in an air strike in the northwest, another senior Hurras al-Din operative, Muhammad Salah al-Zabir was killed.
The US-based site Intelligence Group said Hurus al-Din was established in February 2018.
The group did not publicly confirm its loyalty to al-Qaeda until the announcement of its disintegration in January.
Hurus al-Din was dissolved in accordance with the orders of Shara, which has called all the armed groups to dissolve.
The United States nominated Hurras al-Din as a “terrorist” organization in 2019.
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