SOHR: After a hiatus of about 5 days, Russian warplanes are bombing Idlib in northern Syria

A US drone strike in Idlib, western Syria, resulted in the killing of a senior al-Qaeda leader named Salim Abu Ahmed on September 20, a US military official said to the website.Military Times“American.

And the website quoted Major in the US Army, John Rigsby, that “Abu Ahmed was responsible for planning, financing and approving al-Qaeda attacks across the region.”

“There are no indications of civilian casualties as a result of the raid,” Rigsby added.

On September 20, the Associated Press said a drone targeted a vehicle traveling on a rural road in rebel-held northwest Syria, killing at least one person.

The civil defense team, known as the White Helmets, said the unidentified body was removed from the charred car on the side of the road.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it believed that the US-led coalition was behind the raid on the car, which was carrying an armed man from one of the extremist groups operating in the province. The observatory did not identify the group, but said it was linked to al-Qaeda.

The United States has previously carried out attacks in Idlib targeting al-Qaeda militants and the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was hiding in the province after fleeing eastern Syria.

The new strike that led to the killing of the al-Qaeda leader is part of the American strikes to weaken international terrorist networks and target terrorist leaders, according to the newspaper.

It is noteworthy that large parts of Idlib and the neighboring provinces of Aleppo are still in the hands of the armed Syrian opposition, which is dominated by extremist groups, including “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”, which was linked to Al-Qaeda.

Since 2011, Syria has been witnessing a bloody conflict that has killed nearly half a million people, caused massive destruction to infrastructure and productive sectors, and led to the displacement and displacement of millions of people inside and outside the country.

 

 

Source: Saudi 24 News