
A senior Egyptian Al-Qaeda figure fighting in Syria was killed in a US drone strike this week, the latest to be killed in such attacks in Syria, a Syrian opposition monitoring group and relatives said Friday.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Rifai Ahmad Taha was killed in a strike in the northwestern Idlib province.
Before joining Al-Qaeda, Taha was a top figure in Egypt’s notorious militant group Gamaa Islamiya, which massacred 58 foreign tourists in the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor in 1997. He was also allied with Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan.
The Observatory’s chief Rami Abdurrahman said several Al-Qaeda members, including Taha, were killed in Tuesday’s strike.
Source: Arab News
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