The US military says it killed a senior al-Qaeda leader in an airstrike on Friday (local time) in northwest Syria.Army Major John Rigsbee, a spokesman for US Central Command, said in a statement that Abdul Hamid al-Matar was killed by a drone strike.Major Rigsbee said the killing of al-Matar will disrupt al-Qaeda's "ability to further plot and carry out global attacks threatening US citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians."
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