Leading al Qaeda figure killed in Syria
AMMAN - A leading figure in al Qaeda who became a prominent member of its Syrian Nusra Front offshoot was killed in a drone attack on Monday, the group and jihadist sources said.
They said Sheikh Abu al Faraj al Masri, who spent years in prison in his native Egypt on charges of plotting with fundamentalist Islamist groups and later left for Afghanistan, died when the vehicle in which he was travelling was hit in rebel-held Idlib in Syria's northwest.
"May God accept him as a martyr who was killed in a Crusader raid," said a jihadist named Abu Mohammad al Shami.
