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Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/08/us/us-kills-al-qaeda-official/
U.S. Says It Killed Al-Qaeda Leader in Syria
(CNN) Ryan Browne - The U.S. military said Wednesday it killed Abu Hani al-Masri, an Egyptian national and longtime al-Qaeda leader, in a drone strike on Saturday near Idlib, Syria. Masri oversaw the creation and operation of many al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan in the 1980s and 1990s, and was one of the founders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which formally merged with al-Qaeda in 2001. The Pentagon said 10 al-Qaeda operatives were killed in the airstrike.