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Pentagon: Top Al-Qaeda Leader in Syria Killed in US Airstrike

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Abu Afghan al-Masri, a senior al-Qaeda leader in Syria, has been killed in a US airstrike, US Department of Defense spokesman Peter Cook said on Tuesday. 22.11.2016, Sputnik International

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Pentagon: Top Al-Qaeda Leader in Syria Killed in US Airstrike

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Members of al Qaeda's Nusra Front in the southern countryside of Idlib, December 2, 2014 - Sputnik International

Abu Afghan al-Masri, a senior al-Qaeda leader in Syria, has been killed in a US airstrike, US Department of Defense spokesman Peter Cook said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Al-Masri was killed in a US airstrike in Syria on November 18, Cook said.

"Al-Masri was killed in a November 18 airstrike in rural Syria," Cook told reporters.