US attack targets Al-Qaeda-affiliated ‘senior’ terrorist in Syria: military

Washington:

The United States carried out an attack on Monday in the Syrian province of Idlib that targeted a senior leader of an al-Qaeda militant group, the US military said.

The attacks targeted Abu Hamzah al Yemeni, a “senior leader” of Al Qaeda, the Hurras al-Din, while traveling alone on a motorcycle, the US military statement said.

It added that an initial assessment did not point to civilian casualties.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by DailyExpertNews staff and has been published from a syndicated feed.)