{"id":1367,"date":"2015-03-06T10:25:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T10:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2015-03-06T10:25:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T10:25:25","slug":"al-nusra-front-leaders-killed-in-syrian-airstrikes-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/al-nusra-front-leaders-killed-in-syrian-airstrikes-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Nusra Front leaders killed in Syrian airstrikes: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>More than a dozen senior leaders of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front have been killed in two airstrikes by the Syrian army in the northwestern part of Syria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A spokesman for the Nusra Front was quoted on a prominent militant website Friday as saying the group&#8217;s &#8220;military commander&#8221; Abu Hommam al-Shami was killed a day earlier when an airstrike targeted a meeting in the western Syrian province of Idlib.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Syria&#8217;s state news agency and Syrian activists abroad first reported the death on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The website says three other people \u2014 two of them bodyguards for al-Shami \u2014 also died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abu Musab Falastini, Abu Omar Kurdi, and Abu Baraa Ansari were three other leaders of the terrorist group killed in the attacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20150306\/42366855-80f2-4d51-8520-7ffa7be31a17.jpg?w=1016\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The airstrikes were reportedly conducted by the Syrian army in the al-Habit area of the Idlib Province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Middle Eastern security source, who was briefed by Syrian intelligence, said a senior Saudi operative in the group was also killed in the air raids, which took place in the town of Salqin and a nearby town in Idlib.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the attacks targeted a meeting of the terrorist group\u2019s leaders and the other one targeted a military base of the group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A spokesman for the US-led coalition, which is conducting airstrikes against what are said to be ISIS position in Syria and Iraq, said the coalition\u2019s fighter jets were not involved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWithin the last 24 hours, we have not conducted any airstrikes within 200 miles of the province of Idlib,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Syria has been grappling with a deadly crisis since March 2011. The violence fueled by terrorist\u00a0groups has so far claimed the lives of 210,000 people, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New figures show that over 76,000 people, including thousands of children, lost their lives in Syria last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">IA\/HJL\/AS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen senior leaders of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front have been killed in two airstrikes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[16,106,14,15,13,11],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-airstrike","tag-al-qaeda","tag-isis","tag-militants","tag-syria","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Syria-Militants.jpg?fit=640%2C320&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-m3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}