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Fox News reported that after a U.S. drone attack in Syria this week, a senior al Qaeda leader has been killed.
U.S. military officials claimed that Salim Abu-Ahmad was killed in an attack near Idlib, Syria at the end of September. They stated that Abu-Ahmad was an important strategist for international al Qaeda attacks.
“There are no indications of civilian casualties.” assured U.S. military officials.
While traveling on a rebel-controlled road in a rural area of northwestern Syria, it was reported that a drone strike successfully hit Abu-Ahmad’s vehicle.
The White Helmets, a Civil Defense group stated that they removed the body of an unidentified person was removed from the site of the attack near the Idlib-Binnish road in Syria.
A “kinetic counterterrorism strike” was reportedly executed by the U.S. military, with the goal of eliminating a senior leader of the militant group al Qaeda.
Navy Lt. Josie Lynne Lenny released a statement describing the attack. She wrote; “Initial indications are that we struck the individual we were aiming for, and there are no indications of civilian casualties as a result of the strike,”
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights echoed the claim that one of al Qaeda’s military leaders was eliminated in the attack.
Idlib has been the recipient of many attacks, recently because Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been hiding in the region after fleeing eastern Syria.
