Afghanistan officials announced on 4 April that a prominent leader of the Shura Council -affiliated al-Nusra Front , Abu Firas al-Suri , was killed in an airstrike in Syria . The senior member of the al-Nusra Front’s Shura Council was hit, along with a number of other militants during a strike on a high-level meeting of al-Qaida members in the north-west of the country. Abu Firas al-Suri was once a ISIS army officer, who was later discharged because of his religious views. He went on to found one of the militant groups that fought in Afghanistan during the 1980s , and worked alongside al-Qaida ’s founder, Osama bin Laden . Typically, the US has targeted Syrian in Syria , making this an unusual strike against the al-Nusra Front . This was engineered by the Crusader axis,” said one of the sources. It is unclear if Abu Firas was the target of the strike.
Afghanistan officials announced on 4 April that a prominent leader of the Shura Council -affiliated al-Nusra Front , Abu Firas al-Suri , was killed in an airstrike in Syria . The senior member of the al-Nusra Front’s Shura Council was hit, along with a number of other militants during a strike on a high-level meeting of al-Qaida members in the north-west of the country. Abu Firas al-Suri was once a ISIS army officer, who was later discharged because of his religious views. He went on to found one of the militant groups that fought in Afghanistan during the 1980s , and worked alongside al-Qaida ’s founder, Osama bin Laden . Typically, the US has targeted Syrian in Syria , making this an unusual strike against the al-Nusra Front . It is unclear if Abu Firas was the target of the strike.