slain al Qaeda chief

idlib - Abu al-Khayr al-Masri, one of the most experienced leaders of al Qaeda, was killed by a US attack with a drone. That several sources, including the jihadist organization Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, confirmed Monday. The Pentagon agreed Sunday with an unmanned aircraft have fired a missile at a terrorist target in the emergency west of Syria.

Al-Masri (59), a son of Osama bin Laden, was seen as the number two of Al Qaeda behind Ayman al-Zawahiri, and he comes from Egypt. Hisham al-Hashimi, an expert in the field of Salafist groups in Baghdad, said in The Guardian that the elimination of al-Masri is a major blow to al-Qaeda. ' Just as significant as the death of bin Laden. Al-Masri was the ideological leader of the organization in Iraq, Syria and Yemen. ''