Al-Qaida commander killed, An airstrike has dead a top al-Qaida administrator and two added fighters in Syria, activists said Saturday, but it was not anon bright whether it was agitated out by the U.S.-led affiliation or Russian warplanes.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Abdul Mohsen Abdallah Ibrahim al-Charekh, a Saudi bigger accepted as Sanafi al-Nasr, was dead Thursday in an airstrike abreast the arctic Syrian boondocks of Dana, forth with addition Saudi and a Moroccan associate of al-Qaida's bounded affiliate, accepted as the Nusra Front.
Russian warplanes accept been accustomed out airstrikes in Syria back Sept. 30. A U.S.-led affiliation has been targeting the Nusra Front and the Islamic Accompaniment accumulation for added than a year.
The Observatory's arch Rami Abdurrahman said it was not bright if al-Charekh was dead by U.S. or Russian warplanes. The Observatory, which relies on a arrangement of activists central Syria, said an Egyptian administrator able the bombing. It said all four men had been accomplished to Syria by al-Qaida baton Ayman al-Zawahri.
Jihadi activists on amusing media say al-Charekh was dead by a U.S. bombinate strike.
A U.S. official said an American bombinate targeted and addled al-Charekh but the U.S. was cat-and-mouse for acceptance that he was in fact dead in the attack. The official was not accustomed to altercate the bang about so batten on action of anonymity.
Al-Charekh, the declared baton of al-Qaida's operations in Syria, was one of six men that the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions on endure year. He was 49th on a account of 85 most-wanted militants by Saudi Arabia who are alfresco the kingdom. The list, issued in 2009, includes 83 Saudis and two Yemenis.
"America is alms its casework to the Safawi (Iranian) activity in the arena by removing every academician who confronts this project," wrote arresting Lebanese jihadi apostolic Sirajeddine Zuraiqat on Twitter. Zuraiqat is believed to be in Syria and is capital in his home country.
The U.S. dead top al-Qaida official Muhsin al-Fadhli in an airstrike three months ago. Some Arab columnist letters appropriate that al-Charekh was a associate of the Khorasan group, a backstairs corpuscle of al-Qaida agents who U.S. admiral say were beatific from Pakistan to Syria to artifice attacks adjoin the West.
The Nusra Front's leader, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, has denied the actuality of the Khorasan group.
In Moscow, Maj. Gen. Igoro Konashenkov said Russian aircraft conducted 36 sorties over the accomplished 24 hours, arresting a absolute of 49 positions. He said the airstrikes were in the arena of Hama, Idlib, Latakia, Damascus and Aleppo.
Konashenkov said one of the targets was a architecture on the outskirts of the boondocks of Salma in the littoral arena of Latakia area adopted advisers able militants.
Syria's accompaniment account agency, SANA, said troops agitated out operations in Salma and adjacent areas killing and acid at atomic 300 fighters. "Several cars and hideouts were destroyed," SANA said.
Salma is in the mountains of Latakia arena that is a bastion of President Bashar Assad and is predominantly inhabited by associates of his boyhood Alawite sect.
Since Russian airstrikes began two weeks ago, Syrian troops accept been on the abhorrent on several fronts about the country.
The Observatory said government armament captured the villages of Wadihi, Sabqiyeh and Shgheidleh in Aleppo arena beneath the awning of airstrikes. It added that angry on the southern bend of Aleppo arena dead 17 militants and eight troops and pro-government gunmen.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Abdul Mohsen Abdallah Ibrahim al-Charekh, a Saudi bigger accepted as Sanafi al-Nasr, was dead Thursday in an airstrike abreast the arctic Syrian boondocks of Dana, forth with addition Saudi and a Moroccan associate of al-Qaida's bounded affiliate, accepted as the Nusra Front.Russian warplanes accept been accustomed out airstrikes in Syria back Sept. 30. A U.S.-led affiliation has been targeting the Nusra Front and the Islamic Accompaniment accumulation for added than a year.
The Observatory's arch Rami Abdurrahman said it was not bright if al-Charekh was dead by U.S. or Russian warplanes. The Observatory, which relies on a arrangement of activists central Syria, said an Egyptian administrator able the bombing. It said all four men had been accomplished to Syria by al-Qaida baton Ayman al-Zawahri.
Jihadi activists on amusing media say al-Charekh was dead by a U.S. bombinate strike.
A U.S. official said an American bombinate targeted and addled al-Charekh but the U.S. was cat-and-mouse for acceptance that he was in fact dead in the attack. The official was not accustomed to altercate the bang about so batten on action of anonymity.
Al-Charekh, the declared baton of al-Qaida's operations in Syria, was one of six men that the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions on endure year. He was 49th on a account of 85 most-wanted militants by Saudi Arabia who are alfresco the kingdom. The list, issued in 2009, includes 83 Saudis and two Yemenis.
"America is alms its casework to the Safawi (Iranian) activity in the arena by removing every academician who confronts this project," wrote arresting Lebanese jihadi apostolic Sirajeddine Zuraiqat on Twitter. Zuraiqat is believed to be in Syria and is capital in his home country.
The U.S. dead top al-Qaida official Muhsin al-Fadhli in an airstrike three months ago. Some Arab columnist letters appropriate that al-Charekh was a associate of the Khorasan group, a backstairs corpuscle of al-Qaida agents who U.S. admiral say were beatific from Pakistan to Syria to artifice attacks adjoin the West.
The Nusra Front's leader, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, has denied the actuality of the Khorasan group.
In Moscow, Maj. Gen. Igoro Konashenkov said Russian aircraft conducted 36 sorties over the accomplished 24 hours, arresting a absolute of 49 positions. He said the airstrikes were in the arena of Hama, Idlib, Latakia, Damascus and Aleppo.
Konashenkov said one of the targets was a architecture on the outskirts of the boondocks of Salma in the littoral arena of Latakia area adopted advisers able militants.
Syria's accompaniment account agency, SANA, said troops agitated out operations in Salma and adjacent areas killing and acid at atomic 300 fighters. "Several cars and hideouts were destroyed," SANA said.
Salma is in the mountains of Latakia arena that is a bastion of President Bashar Assad and is predominantly inhabited by associates of his boyhood Alawite sect.
Since Russian airstrikes began two weeks ago, Syrian troops accept been on the abhorrent on several fronts about the country.
The Observatory said government armament captured the villages of Wadihi, Sabqiyeh and Shgheidleh in Aleppo arena beneath the awning of airstrikes. It added that angry on the southern bend of Aleppo arena dead 17 militants and eight troops and pro-government gunmen.
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