{"id":3429,"date":"2014-02-24T06:53:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T06:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2014-02-24T06:53:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T06:53:51","slug":"senior-al-qaeda-commander-killed-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/02\/24\/3429\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior al-Qaeda commander killed in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/daesh.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>A Syrian rebel commander, who fought alongside al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden and was close to its current chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed by a suicide attack in Aleppo, intensifying in-fighting between rival armed groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The killing of Abu Khaled al-Suri on Sunday in a suicide bombing in the al-Halq area of Aleppo was confirmed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said he died along with six others when a fighter from the rival Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group blew himself up at an Ahrar al-Sham post in al-Halq.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Al-Suri&#8217;s death occurred against the backdrop of bloody rebel infighting between an al-Qaeda-breakaway ISIL and an array of armed opposition groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ISIL suspected<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Sunday&#8217;s assassination, but rebels quickly accused ISIL.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Speaking via Skype, Akram al-Halabi, spokesman for the Islamic Front, an alliance of seven rebel groups, told the Associated Press news agency that al-Suri had been critical of ISIL and its approach toward other rebel factions.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He said rebels believe that ISIL, which al-Qaeda publicly disowned earlier this month, was behind Sunday&#8217;s bombing.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The first fingers of blame point to the State,&#8221; al-Halabi said. &#8220;Unfortunately this is going to make the infighting worse.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Al-Suri had been critical of the group, blaming it for the internal conflict among rebels that has killed thousands of people across northern Syria since fighting began there in early January.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The senior al-Qaeda fighter&#8217;s death could further complicate efforts to resolve those clashes, which have undermined rebel efforts to oust President Bashar al-Assad in Syria&#8217;s nearly three-year civil war.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since the rebel infighting began, government forces have chipped away at opposition-held areas, including around Aleppo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>Aljazeera<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Syrian rebel commander, who fought alongside al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden and was close to its current chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed by a suicide attack in Aleppo, intensifying in-fighting between rival armed groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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