The U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, which oversees American forces in the Middle East, said in a statement that its forces on Feb. 23 "conducted a precision airstrike in Northwest Syria, targeting and killing Muhammed Yusuf Ziya Talay, the senior military leader of the terrorist organization Hurras al-Din."

U.S. Central Command forces conducted a precision airstrike in Northwest Syria, killing Wasim Tahsin Bayraqdar, a senior leadership facilitator of the terrorist organization Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaida affiliate.

U.S. Central Command announced on Saturday that it had killed a senior military leader of an Al-Qaeda affiliate known as Hurras al-Din in an airstrike in Syria.

The United States Central Command has carried out several operations in Idlib province in northwest Syria since the beginning of this year, targeting several members and leaders of the al Qaida-linked Hurras al-Din (HaD) organization.

On Jan. 30, U.S. forces launched an airstrike in northwestern Syria that killed a high-ranking member of a terrorist group with ties to al-Qaida, according to U.S. Central Command. Muhammad Salah al-Za’bir was a senior operative in Hurras al-Din, CENTCOM said late Thursday in a statement, which added that the fatal strike had occurred the same day.

An American airstrike killed an Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader in northwest Syria, US Central Command revealed Saturday. US Central Command forces conducted a precision strike on Feb. 23 targeting and killing Muhammed Yusuf Ziya Talay,