Al-Shami is one of the most senior Nusra Front figures to be killed since it formed in 2012 and has fought in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, Reuters news agency reported, quoting sources said.
Reports said the explosion was caused by a coalition airstrike that hit a high-level Nusra Front meeting in Idlib, but the coalition has denied having conducted any airstrikes in the province in the past 24 hours.
The Nusra Front has fought Western-backed rebels this year, seizing their territory and forcing them to disarm so as to
consolidate its power in northern Syria.
Hazzm, one of the last remnants of non-jihadist opposition to President Bashar al-Assad in northern Syria, dissolved itself
last week after weeks of fighting with the Nusra Front.
After Thursday's attack, the Nusra Front told its members not to provide information to the media, the Reuters sources said.
The weakness of the mainstream Syrian opposition and the growing power of the Nusra Front and Islamic State has
complicated diplomatic efforts to end the Syrian conflict that has killed around 200,000 people.
[ alarabiya.net With Reuters]
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Future of Syria's Nusra Front in question after commander killed...
ReplyDelete(Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Syrian branch was left reeling on Friday after its military chief was killed in an apparent army air strike, adding to confusion over the future path of the most powerful group opposing both President Bashar al-Assad and Islamic State.
Abu Humam al-Shami, who trained in Afghanistan alongside plotters of the Sept. 11 2001 attacks on the United States and whose Nusra Front controls wide parts of northwestern Syria, was killed by an explosion at a meeting of commanders on Thursday in Idlib province.
The Sunni Muslim militant group, loyal to the successors of Osama bin Laden, is one of the two most powerful anti-Assad forces in Syria, having split from Islamic State which rejects al Qaeda as insufficiently radical...................http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/06/us-mideast-crisis-syria-nusra-idUSKBN0M128N20150306?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
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The top military commander of al Qaeda’s official Syrian wing, the al-Nusra Front, has been killed in an air strike, insurgent sources said Thursday, though there was no official confirmation from the group itself...
ReplyDeleteGeneral Military Commander Abu Humam al-Shami, a veteran of Islamist militant fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, was killed as he was attending a high-level militant meeting in the northwestern province of Idlib, insurgent sources told Reuters.
The sources said at least three other Nusra Front commanders were also killed in the blast, which they said hit the town of Salqin, near the border with Turkey.
However, there has not been any official communication from the Nusra Front itself confirming Abu Humam’s death, said FRANCE 24’s terrorism expert Wassim Nasr.
A source within the group had confirmed that Abu Humam was injured in an air strike, but the source was “not sure he if he is dead”, said Nasr..............http://www.france24.com/en/20150305-nusra-front-commander-killed-syria-blast-al-shami-qaeda/
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El Frente al Nusra, filial siria de la red Al-Qaida, ha confirmado hoy que su máximo comandante de campo murió ayer en un ataque aéreo que tenía como objetivo una reunión de altos dirigentes del grupo...
ReplyDeleteAbu Anas al Shami, portavoz del grupo, ha afirmado que un ataque aéreo en la provincia de Idlib, en el norte de Siria, mató a Abu al Shami Hommam, descrito como "jefe militar" del Frente al Nusra.
La agencia estatal de noticias siria SANA informó ayer de la muerte de Abu Hommam y también lo hizo el Observatorio Sirio para los Derechos Humanos (OSDH), que tiene una red de activistas dentro de Siria.................http://mundo.sputniknews.com/orientemedio/20150306/1035154264.html#ixzz3Tgito5dg
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