US military says senior leader of al-Qaeda-affiliated group killed in Syria
U.S. Central Command said on Saturday it carried out a precision airstrike in Syria, killing a senior leader of an al-Qaeda-affiliated group.
The statement said the strike killed Mohammad Yusuf Diay Talay, a senior military commander of the Hurras al-Din group, which is linked to al-Qaeda.
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