Commander of former Nusra group ‘killed in Syria’

A senior commander of the Syrian militant group once called al-Nusra Front has been killed near Aleppo, rebel sources say.

Abu Omar Saraqib of the Syria Conquest Front was killed in an air raid on the outskirts of Aleppo late Thursday, rebels said.

The Army of Conquest is the largest anti-regime rebel alliance in Syria, grouping Islamist factions including Ahrar al-Sham and Faylaq al-Sham with jihadists such as the Fateh al-Sham Front.

Another source told Reuters that the rebels were at a hideout in the village of Kafr Naha when the strike hit them.

A high-ranking member of the Fatah al-Sham rebel group in Syria is dead, rebel sources say, after fighter jets bombed a meeting of the group’s leaders near Aleppo.

It wasn’t clear yet who was behind the airstrike, as the Qatari-based al-Jazeera reportedly said the US-led anti-terror coalition was behind the strike, while some local reports suggested the Syrian air force was behind the air raid.

Jabhat al-Nusra recently changed its name, saying it was delinking with al Qaida central command, but the move was seen as a way to avoid being targeted.

Diplomatic efforts to end the fighting have so far come to nothing.

In Geneva, Secretary of State John Kerry was once more locked in talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, but USA officials warned that negotiations could not go on forever without a breakthrough.

The Syrian conflict began as a mostly unarmed uprising against Assad in March 2011, but quickly escalated into a full-blown civil war.

“Within last 24 hours, in the Aleppo province terrorists have fired with MLRS and mortars against the Khai-al-Ansari and “1070”, areas of the the military school of armament and the “Kastello” trade centre”.

US Defence Secretary Ash Carter, talking on Thursday in great britain, said he was assured THAT’S would be pushed back into its strongholds in Syria, of Raqqa, and Mosul, in Iraq before being conquered.