Drone Strike in Syria Kills 2 al-Qaeda-Linked Operatives

BEIRUT—A drone strike believed to have been carried out by the U.S.-led coalition in northwestern Syria on Friday killed two operatives with an al-Qaeda-linked group, Syrian opposition activists said.
The two terrorists were killed while riding a motorcycle near the northern village of Qah, close to the Turkish border, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, and several other activist collectives.
There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military. The strike was the latest in a series of attacks over the past years targeting al-Qaeda-linked terrorists in northwestern Syria.
The opposition’s Syrian Civil Defense, also known as White Helmets, said its members extinguished a fire caused by the drone strike, adding that two “unknown persons” were killed….

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