Syria
A boy looks at a building where US coalition forces conducted an overnight airborne operation to capture an Islamic State group bombmaker, in the village of Hmeirah in the north of Syria's Aleppo province on June 16, 2022. Photo: Bakr al-Kassem/AFP
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The US military on Monday said it carried out a “kinetic strike” that targeted a senior leader of an al-Qaeda-affiliated group in Syria’s Idlib province.
“Abu Hamzah al Yemeni was traveling alone on a motorcycle at the time of the strike,” the US Central Command said in a statement, noting that no civilian casualties were reported based on an “initial review.”
Yemeni was a leader of the Hurras al-Din jihadist group, the main branch of al-Qaeda in Syria.
“The removal of this senior leader will disrupt Al Qaeda's ability to carry out attacks against U.S. citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians around the world,” CENTCOM said.
The strike was the second US operation this month targeting a senior jihadist leader in Syria.
Coalition forces captured a top Islamic State (ISIS) leader in northern Syria on June 16. Officials told US media he was named Hani Ahmed al-Kurdi.
US forces also killed notorious ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi in Idlib’s Atmeh, on February 3.
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