基地組織敘利亞分支的頭目在空襲中喪生

An airstrike Monday killed a senior leader in the Syrian Islamist group that split from al-Qaida earlier this year.

Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, the group formally known as Jabhat al-Nusra, said Abu al-Farai al-Masri was killed when his vehicle was struck in the northwestern Idlib province.

The U.S. military says it carried out an airstrike in the area targeting Masri, but that officials were still assessing the results.

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said the Egyptian national Masri had ties to former al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed by U.S. special forces in Pakistan in 2011. Masri was also a companion of now-deceased al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri.

"His death, if confirmed, would disrupt and degrade coordination among senior AQ leaders and extremists," Cook said in a statement.今年初從基地組織分離出來的敘利亞伊斯蘭組織的一個高層頭目星期一在一次空襲行動中喪生。

“征服敘利亞陣線”的前身是“努斯拉陣線”。該組織說，阿布·法拉伊·馬斯里在西北部的伊德利卜省駕車時遇襲身亡。

美國軍方說，美軍在這個地區針對馬斯里實施了一次空襲，但是有關官員仍在對空襲結果進行評估。

五角大樓發言人庫克說，埃及公民馬斯里曾與前基地組織頭目本拉登有聯繫。本拉登2011年在巴基斯坦被美國特種部隊擊斃。馬斯里也曾是死去的基地組織頭目扎瓦希裏的同伴。

庫克在一份聲明中說：“他的死如果得到證實，將破壞並降低基地組織高層頭目和極端分子之間的相互協調。”