Air strikes have killed several Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front members including its spokesman and regime forces have retaken a strategic town from the "Islamic State" (ISIS) terrorist group in the latest setbacks for terrorists in Syria, AFP reports.
Abu Firas al-Suri, whose real name was Radwan Nammous, fought against Soviet forces in Afghanistan where he met Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and the founding father of global jihad, Abdullah Azzam, before returning to Syria in 2011.
Suri was meeting with other leading Islamist fighters in an Nusra Front stronghold in Kafar Jales in northwestern Syria when the raids struck on Sunday.