Saturday 23 October 2021
Air strike against terrorist network
US kills al Qaeda leaders in Syria
Abdul Hamid al-Matar is one of the leading members of al-Qaeda. Now US forces have claimed to have killed him in a drone attack in Syria. This has weakened the terrorist organization in the long term.
The US claims to have killed one of the leaders of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network in Syria. Abdul Hamid al-Matar was killed in a drone attack in northwest Syria, said a spokesman for the US Central Command. According to current knowledge, civilians were not harmed in the attack near Suluk.
“The elimination of this leading al-Qaeda member will affect the terrorist organization’s ability to plan and carry out further attacks that threaten US citizens, our partners and innocent civilians,” said US Army spokesman Major John Rigsbee. in a written statement. The attack came two days after an attack on a US outpost in southern Syria. Rigsbee did not say whether the US drone attack was carried out in retaliation.
The extremist organization continues to “pose a threat to the United States and our allies.” Al-Qaeda is using Syria as a retreat to regroup and plan missions abroad. According to the Pentagon, the United States had already killed an al-Qaeda commander in a US air strike in the Idlib region in northwest Syria at the end of September.
Around 500,000 people have been killed since the civil war in Syria began in 2011. More than 6.6 million others sought refuge abroad.