Al Qaeda figure killed by US strike in Syria
DUBAI - A jihadist Twitter account said the leader of the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan group was killed in a US air strike in Syria, SITE monitoring service said on Sunday after several days of uncertainty over whether he survived the raid.
A US official said on Sept. 24 the United States believed Mohsin al-Fadhli, a senior al Qaeda operative, had been killed in a strike a day earlier, but the Pentagon said several hours later it was still investigating what had happened to him.
In a tweet posted on Sept. 27, a jihadist offered condolences for the death of Kuwaiti-born Fadhli, otherwise known as Abu Asmaa al-Kuwati or Abu Asmaa al-Jazrawi, said SITE, a US-based organisation that monitors militant groups online.
