Terrorist commander slain in northwestern Syria

A high-ranking commander of the Takfiri Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, al-Qaeda's Syrian branch formerly known as al-Nusra Front, has been killed in an airstrike on the outskirts of Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo.

Reuters cited Takfiri sources as saying on Thursday that the commander, known by the nom de guerre Abu Omar Saraqib, was killed in an aerial raid that targeted a meeting of the group's leaders in the village of Kafr Naha.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that another terrorist commander named as Abu Muslem al-Shami was also killed in the strike.

It, however, did not say who carried out the airstrike or when it took place. The US-led coalition, Russia and Syria have been conducting airstrikes against foreign-sponsored militant groups operating inside Syria.

Saraqib was reportedly leading Jabhat Fateh al-Sham’s terrorist activities in Aleppo.

In June 23, a prominent commander of the Takfiri Ajnad al-Sham terrorist group was killed during fierce clashes with Syrian army troopers and allied forces in Aleppo province.

Samir Shartah, better known by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad Kafrouma, was killed when Syrian soldiers and fighters from pro-government popular defense groups closed in on the extremists in Duwayr al-Zaytoun village.

The development came only a day after a senior commander of al-Nusra Front was killed in the same Syrian province.

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