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On September 20th, an explosion was reported in on the highway between the cities of Idlib and Binnish.
A car that reportedly was a Kia Rio was destroyed as a result of the combat drone attack. An American MQ-9 attack UAV was spotted over the area at the time of attack.
According to local sources, the strike resulted in several casualties and the car burned out.
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According to some unconfirmed reports, the drone strike might target two leaders of al-Qaeda-linked Houras al-Din militant group, sheikh Abu al-Bar’a al-Tunisi and military commander Abu Hamzah al-Yamani.
Both of them were previously targeted by failed assassination attempts. Abu al-Bara al-Tunisi survived an assassination attempt in the city of Idlib on Marh 21, 2020. In his turn, Abu Hamzah al-Yamani was allegedly targeted by a US drone in Idlib city on September 14 2020.
If the reports about the assassination of Abu al-Bar’a al-Tunisi and Abu Hamzah al-Yamani turn to be true, this would be a significant success of the US-led international coalition in their attempt to support another Al-Qaeda-affiliated group of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, as Houras al-Din is one of their opponents in Syria’s Idlib.
