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The US military announced on Saturday the elimination of a senior military commander of the terrorist organization Hurras al-Din, a Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda which announced its disbandment in January.
The United States Central Command, CENTCOM, in charge of American forces in the Middle East, said in a statement that on February 23, its forces "conducted a high-precision airstrike in northwestern Syria, targeting and eliminating Muhammed Yusuf Ziya Talay, a senior military leader of the Hurras al-Din terrorist organization."
"As we have said in the past, we will continue to relentlessly pursue these terrorists to protect our homeland and the personnel of American allies and partners in the region ," said General Michael Erik Kurilla, head of the United States Central Command, CENTCOM.
Since the Hurras al-Din organization announced in late January that it was disbanding, US airstrikes have killed several of the group's leaders, according to reports from CENTCOM.
On February 22, the US military said it had eliminated Wasim Tahsin Bayraqdar, a leader of the group designated a terrorist organization by the United States, through an airstrike.
US forces are in Syria as part of an international coalition created in 2014 to fight jihadists from the so-called Islamic State group.
After a rebel alliance led by the radical Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham toppled President Bashar al-Assad and seized power in Damascus on December 8, Hurras al-Din said it no longer needed to exist. The group, which also included foreign jihadists, was based in the mountainous northwestern part of Syria.
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