An airstrike Monday killed a senior leader in the Syrian Islamist group that split from al-Qaida earlier this year.
Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, the group formally known as Jabhat al-Nusra, said Abu al-Farai al-Masri was killed when his vehicle was struck in the northwestern Idlib province.
The U.S. military says it carried out an airstrike in the area targeting Masri, but that officials were still assessing the results.
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said the Egyptian national Masri had ties to former al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed by U.S. special forces in Pakistan in 2011. Masri was also a companion of now-deceased al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri.
"His death, if confirmed, would disrupt and degrade coordination among senior AQ leaders and extremists," Cook said in a statement.
今年初从基地组织分离出来的叙利亚伊斯兰组织的一个高层头目星期一在一次空袭行动中丧生。
“征服叙利亚阵线”的前身是“努斯拉阵线”。该组织说,阿布·法拉伊·马斯里在西北部的伊德利卜省驾车时遇袭身亡。
美国军方说,美军在这个地区针对马斯里实施了一次空袭,但是有关官员仍在对空袭结果进行评估。
五角大楼发言人库克说,埃及公民马斯里曾与前基地组织头目本拉登有联系。本拉登2011年在巴基斯坦被美国特种部队击毙。马斯里也曾是死去的基地组织头目扎瓦希里的同伴。
库克在一份声明中说:“他的死如果得到证实,将破坏并降低基地组织高层头目和极端分子之间的相互协调。”
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