An image grab taken from an undated video released via Al-Nusra’s official channel Al-Manara Al-Baydaa shows Abu Firas al-Suri, the spokesman for Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, Al-Nusra Front, giving an interview at an undisclosed location. Suri, his son and 20 other jihadists were killed in airstrikes on April 3 in the northeast of Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Suri was meeting with other leading Islamist fighters in a Nusra stronghold in Kafar Jales when the raids struck positions in Idlib province, the monitor said. AFP PHOTO / AL-MANARA AL-BAYDAA
An image grab taken from an undated video released via Al-Nusra’s official channel Al-Manara Al-Baydaa shows Abu Firas al-Suri, the spokesman for Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, Al-Nusra Front, giving an interview at an undisclosed location. Suri, his son and 20 other jihadists were killed in airstrikes on April 3 in the northeast of Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Suri was meeting with other leading Islamist fighters in a Nusra stronghold in Kafar Jales when the raids struck positions in Idlib province, the monitor said. AFP PHOTO / AL-MANARA AL-BAYDAA

BEIRUT: The spokesman for Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, Al-Nusra Front, his son and 20 other jihadists were killed in airstrikes Sunday in the northeast of the country, a monitor said.

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