(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led air strikes on Sunday killed 4 senior commanders of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham in northern Idlib province,sources said.
Field source said the commanders of formerly known Nusra Front were killed in two air strikes. The first targeted a car carrying Khatab al-Qahtani, Fateh al-Sham Emir in Hazzano and Abo Motasim al-Deri, Shariah principal in the town.
The second air raid conducted in the town of Sarmada, targeted a vehicle carrying Abo Omar Turkistani, a commander in the front and another commander was not possible to identify, and both were killed as well.
People in the northern countryside of Idlib reported to Zaman al-Wasl that US-alliance warplanes kept flying all the day in Northern countryside of Idlib and Western countryside of Aleppo before being able to target the four commanders.
The assassination operations followed the nationwide ceasefire agreement brokered by Russia and Turkey and had been announced by Russia Dec. 28 and put in effect Thursday Dec 29 midnight Syria's time. The Syrian ceasefire excluded Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and the Islamic State.
The ceasefire agreement was not clear in the beginning in regard to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham when Russian announced the cease fire truce, as the Syrian opposition factions did not mention excluding it from the agreement, while Tukey mentioned that the agreement excluded all organization on UN’s terrorist list, till Russia made clear and excluded the Front from the agreement.
Field source said the commanders of formerly known Nusra Front were killed in two air strikes. The first targeted a car carrying Khatab al-Qahtani, Fateh al-Sham Emir in Hazzano and Abo Motasim al-Deri, Shariah principal in the town.
The second air raid conducted in the town of Sarmada, targeted a vehicle carrying Abo Omar Turkistani, a commander in the front and another commander was not possible to identify, and both were killed as well.
People in the northern countryside of Idlib reported to Zaman al-Wasl that US-alliance warplanes kept flying all the day in Northern countryside of Idlib and Western countryside of Aleppo before being able to target the four commanders.
The assassination operations followed the nationwide ceasefire agreement brokered by Russia and Turkey and had been announced by Russia Dec. 28 and put in effect Thursday Dec 29 midnight Syria's time. The Syrian ceasefire excluded Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and the Islamic State.
The ceasefire agreement was not clear in the beginning in regard to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham when Russian announced the cease fire truce, as the Syrian opposition factions did not mention excluding it from the agreement, while Tukey mentioned that the agreement excluded all organization on UN’s terrorist list, till Russia made clear and excluded the Front from the agreement.
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