Washington [US]: A senior al-Qaeda leader was killed in a drone airstrike in Syria, Fox News reported citing a US defence official.<\/p>\n
On September 20, Salim Abu-Ahmad was killed in a US airstrike near Idlib, Syria. Salim was responsible for planning, funding, and approving trans-regional al Qaeda attacks, according to Fox News.<\/p>\n
US defence officials said. \u201cThere were no indications of civilian casualties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Washington has carried out attacks in Idlib before targeting al Qaeda terrorists and the leader of the IS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was hiding in the province after fleeing from eastern Syria.<\/p>\n
Earlier, on September 13, a military aircraft, presumably of the US Air Force, struck at two cars on the Syrian-Iraqi border, a source in the Iraqi militia, the Popular Mobilization Forces, told Sputnik.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo cars were hit by an airstrike on the border between Iraq and Syria,\u201d the source said. According to him, the strike was allegedly inflicted by the US Air Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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