Several Leaders of ’Ahrar al-Sham’ Terrorists Killed in Syria

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The leaders of one of Syria's most powerful extremist groups, the so-called "Ahrar al-Sham," have been killed in an explosion, according to a statement on Tuesday.

A Tuesday statement posted on Ahrar al-Sham's official Twitter feed said the blast had hit a meeting in Idlib province in northwest Syria and confirmed Hassan Aboud, the group's leader, among at least 12 dead.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the UK-based monitoring group, said some 50 of the group's leaders had been gathered at a house when the blast went off. Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Observatory, said the blast had occurred inside the meeting.

Ahrar al-Sham is a militants group that has been in armed conflict with the so-called "Daesh" [ISIL] extremist group which has seized swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq. 

In January, another senior Ahrar al-Sham leader, Abu Khaled al-Soury, was killed in a suicide attack. Soury had fought alongside al-Qaeda's extremist founder Osama bin Laden and was close to its current chief Ayman al-Zawahri.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team