(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition air strikes on Wednesday hit vehicles carrying fighters of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham in in the northwestern province of Idlib, killing 11 people, field sources said.
The third attack in a week on the formerly known as Nusra Front has left two senior commanders dead.
Before leaving the White House on Jan. 20, President Barack Obama ordered last month the U.S. air force to eliminate the former Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria who basically controls swaths of territory in Idlib Province.
Last Wednesday, the United States carried out an airstrike on Idlibn killed at least 25 members of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, including senior figures, a U.S. military official said.
Among the dead were leading members of the formerly known as the Nusra Front holding a meeting, the observatory said without identifying them.
The front had accused the U.S.-led coalition of being behind the attack and said it killed more than 20 people. Colonel John Dorrian, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said it was carried out only by U.S. warplanes.
CENTCOM, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, also confirmed that U.S. forces staged an air raid Sunday in the same region, near the city of Sarmada.
It did not specify the target but the observatory said it was two cars carrying three leaders of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham and that all three were killed.
Idlib province is largely controlled by that group and others allied with it.
The third attack in a week on the formerly known as Nusra Front has left two senior commanders dead.
Before leaving the White House on Jan. 20, President Barack Obama ordered last month the U.S. air force to eliminate the former Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria who basically controls swaths of territory in Idlib Province.
Last Wednesday, the United States carried out an airstrike on Idlibn killed at least 25 members of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, including senior figures, a U.S. military official said.
Among the dead were leading members of the formerly known as the Nusra Front holding a meeting, the observatory said without identifying them.
The front had accused the U.S.-led coalition of being behind the attack and said it killed more than 20 people. Colonel John Dorrian, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said it was carried out only by U.S. warplanes.
CENTCOM, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, also confirmed that U.S. forces staged an air raid Sunday in the same region, near the city of Sarmada.
It did not specify the target but the observatory said it was two cars carrying three leaders of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham and that all three were killed.
Idlib province is largely controlled by that group and others allied with it.
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