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'Air raid kills Al-Nusra Front spokesman in Syria'

04 aprile 2016 | 17.04
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Photo: AFP
Photo: AFP

An air strike killed the spokesman for Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, the Al-Nusra Front, Abu Firas al-Souri, in northeast Syria, a monitoring group said on Monday.

Souri, his son and 20 other jihadists were killed in the air raids on Sunday in Idlib province, according to The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Souri was meeting other leading jihadists in the village of Kafar Jales when the raids took place, according to the UK-based monitor.

It was not immediately clear whether the warplanes were Syrian or Russian, said the monitor, adding that several other jihadists were critically injured in the air strikes and the death-toll could rise.

Souri, a Syrian, whose real name Radwan Nammous, fought against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, where he met late Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Abdullah Azzam, a bin Laden mentor, before returning to Syria in 2011, supporters said on Twitter.

The Al-Nusra Front poses a greater threat to the United States than the Islamic State jihadist group, according to a report in January by the Institute for the Study of War and American Enterprise Institute.

"Al-Nusra is quietly intertwining itself with the Syrian population and Syrian opposition ... They are waiting in the wings to pick up the mantle of global jihad once IS falls," said the report.

The group developed as an off-shoot of Al-Qaeda during the five-year civil war in Syria.

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