Al Qaeda-linked group member killed in US airstrike, Pentagon says

A member of a group linked to al Qaeda has been killed in a U.S. airstrike, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a post on the social platform X.

“On Feb. 15, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Forces conducted a precision airstrike in Northwest Syria targeting and killing a senior finance and logistics official in the terrorist organization Hurras al-Din (HaD), an Al-Qaeda affiliate,” CENTCOM said Sunday.

In 2018, Hurras al-Din came out of the militant group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham. Hurras al-Din was designated in 2019 a specially designated global terrorist group by the U.S. State Department.

"We will continue to relentlessly pursue terrorists in order to defend our homeland, and U.S., allied, and partner personnel in the region,” CENTCOM Commander Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla said in the Sunday X post.

President Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform Monday that “US forces conducted a precision airstrike against a member of al-Qaeda in Syria this weekend.”

“The terrorist leader was working with al-Qaeda across the region. Congratulations to CENTCOM Commander Gen. Michael Kurilla, and the US warfighters who dealt Justice to another Jihadi threatening America and our allies and partners,” the president added.

In 2022, CENTCOM said in a statement that its forces had gone through with a “kinetic strike” aimed at Abu Hamzah al Yemeni, a senior leader of Hurras al-Din. According to CENTCOM, al Yemeni had been traveling via motorcycle during the strike that happened in the northern province of Idlib in Syria.

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