US Launches Air Strikes Against Al Qaeda's Khorasan Group And Other Islamist Rebels In Syria

Khorasan Extremist Group Targets in Syria Hit by U.S. -- Bloomberg Businessweek

The U.S. military said it attacked targets linked to the Khorasan terrorist group for the second time since the beginning of airstrikes in Syria.

B-1B bombers, F-16s fighters and Reaper armed drones yesterday struck targets near Sarmada, including facilities making improvised explosive devices, according to the military. The targets were ones “that we’ve been watching, and the time was right to strike,” Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters.

Asked whether the attacks may have killed French bomb-maker David Drugeon, a Muslim convert who joined the Khorasan Group, General Lloyd Austin, head of the U.S. Central Command, said in Washington today, “He is clearly one of the leadership elements and one of the dangerous elements in that organization. Any time that we can take their leadership out it’s a good thing.”

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