WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military says it killed a senior al-Qaida leader in an airstrike Friday in northwest Syria.
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Army Maj. John Rigsbee, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said in a statement that Abdul Hamid al-Matar was killed by a drone strike.
Rigsbee said the killing of al-Matar will disrupt al-Qaida’s “ability to further plot and carry out global attacks threatening U.S. citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians.” He said al-Qaida “uses Syria as a base for threats reaching into Syria, Iraq and beyond.”
The drone strike came two days after a U.S. military outpost in southern Syria was hit by a coordinated attack that included drones and rockets. U.S. officials said no American troops stationed there were injured or killed.
the biggest terror threat to this country, is the new Marxist treasonous America hating terrorist supporting DemonRat party, and it’s leader that demented Alzheimer diseased old treasonous fool making believe he is President…
After what happened in Afghanistan, when our military killed innocent civilians and at first claimed it was terrorists they had killed, it’s hard to trust the reliability of stories like this.
Right now Syria is the terror threat to USA, not Afghanistan.