The Pentagon confirmed on Tuesday that the US army had carried out strikes in Syria against the Jabhat Fatah Al-Sham leader Abu Faraj al-Masri and that the military was assessing results of the operation, Sputnik International.
US Department of Defense spokesman Matthew Allen said that the US Army was targeting a “prominent al-Qaeda member”.
Earlier reports emerged that a senior leader of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front, Abu Faraj Masri, died in a strike in Syria’s Idlib province.