‘Prominent Egyptian Qaeda figure killed in Syria’

AMMAN: A leading Egyptian al Qaeda figure who joined its Syrian offshoot the Nusra Front and became a prominent figure in the militant group was killed in a drone

AMMAN: A leading Egyptian al Qaeda figure who joined its Syrian offshoot the Nusra Front and became a prominent figure in the militant group was killed in a drone attack in rebel-held Idlib province, two jihadist sources said on Monday. They said Abu al Faraj al Masri, who had fought in Afghanistan, was killed when a drone hit the vehicle he was travelling in a location near Jisr al Shuqour in Idlib, in Syria’s northwest.

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