The United States Army have killed a top military leader of Hurras al-Din, a Syrian branch of al-Qaeda which announced its dissolution in January.
The U.S. Central Command, CENTCOM, which is in charge of
American forces in the Middle East, said in a statement on Saturday.
According to CENTCOM, its forces on February 23 “conducted a
precision airstrike in Northwest Syria, targeting and killing Muhammed Yusuf
Ziya Talay, the senior military leader of the terrorist organization Hurras
al-Din”.
Since Hurras al-Din announced in January that it was
dissolving itself, U.S. airstrikes have killed several of the group’s leaders,
according to CENTCOM.
On February 22, it said a “precision air strike” had killed
Wasim Tahsin Bayraqdar, a leader of the group which the US classifies as a
terrorist organization.
The U.S forces are in Syria as part of an international
coalition created in 2014 to fight the extremists of ISIS.
This comes after “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” toppled President
Bashar al-Assad and took power in Damascus last December.
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