The U.S. military announces the elimination of a high-ranking Al-Qaeda terrorist in Syria

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The U.S. military announced on Thursday that it had eliminated a high-ranking terrorist from the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda in an airstrike in northwest Syria. Before the victory over Syria's former dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, this region was controlled by the group "Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham," led by interim president Ahmad al-Shara.

The U.S. military announces the elimination of a high-ranking Al-Qaeda terrorist in Syria
"U.S. Central Command forces targeted and conducted a precise airstrike against Muhammad Saloh az-Zabir, a senior official of the terrorist organization 'Hurras al-Din,' a faction of Al-Qaeda in northwest Syria," said a Centcom statement.

According to the Syria Observatory for Human Rights, based in the UK, Zabir was killed when his car was destroyed in a drone strike on the Sarmada-Idlib road.

The U.S. strike came just days after Hurras al-Din announced its disbandment. The Observatory emphasized that Hurras al-Din announced its dissolution "to avoid armed confrontation with the SDF."

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