US forces killed 11 Al-Qaeda operatives in two air strikes near Idlib, Syria, this month, including a member with links to the late Osama bin Laden and other top leaders of the group, the Pentagon said yesterday.
It said a 4 February strike killed Abu Hani Al-Masri, who it said oversaw the creation and operation of many Al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan in the 1980s and 1990s, where he “recruited, indoctrinated, trained and equipped thousands of terrorists.”
Al-Masri had ties to bin Laden and Al-Qaeda’s current leader, Ayman Al-Zawahri, the Pentagon said in a statement.
Ten Al-Qaeda members were killed in an airstrike on a building used as a meeting place on 3 February, it said.
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