Damascus: Abdul Hamid al-Matar, a senior leader of al-Qaeda was killed in a drone attack by the US forces in Syria. This was announced by Pentagon. The US launched air strikes as a retaliation to attack targeting a base in southern Syria, used by the US-led coalition.
The attack was carried out using an MQ-9 aircraft. There were no known casualties from the strike.
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At the end of September, the US killed Salim Abu-Ahmad, another senior Al-Qaeda commander in Syria, in an airstrike near Idlib in the country’s northwest. The civil war in Syria has killed around half a million people since 2011.
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