A drone targeted a civilian vehicle on the road to Syria’s Aleppo airport on Thursday (Sep 4), the Syrian state news agency reported. Visuals on social media show a vehicle in flames in the aftermath of a drone attack. Reports suggested that the airstrike was conducted by the US-led International Coalition on a vehicle travelling on the road to Aleppo International Airport. Two people were killed in the attack.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560">The US-led International Coalition conducted an airstrike on a vehicle traveling on the road to Aleppo International Airport. <a href="https://t.co/U3Cmnc7ovG">pic.twitter.com/U3Cmnc7ovG</a>&mdash; Levant24 (@Levant_24_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Levant_24_/status/1963599760981438485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

While it was not immediately clear who carried out the attack, it must be noted that both Israel and a US-led anti-jihadist coalition have carried out repeated drone strikes in Syria. In August, Syrian state television said coalition forces killed a senior IS leader in Atme, northwest Syria.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The US-led International Coalition reportedly carried out a drone strike and hit a civilian vehicle near Aleppo International Airport in Syria. The reason for the drone strike is not known yet. No information about the casualties is available so far 

A drone targeted a civilian vehicle on the road to Syria’s Aleppo airport on Thursday (Sep 4), the Syrian state news agency reported. Visuals on social media show a vehicle in flames in the aftermath of a drone attack. Reports suggested that the airstrike was conducted by the US-led International Coalition on a vehicle travelling on the road to Aleppo International Airport. Two people were killed in the attack.

The US-led International Coalition reportedly carried out a drone strike and hit a civilian vehicle near Aleppo International Airport in Syria. The reason for the drone strike is not known yet. No information about the casualties is available so far&nbsp;

Drone attack on civilian vehicle near Syria’s Aleppo airport, two killed

A leading figure in al-Qaeda who became a prominent member of its Syrian Nusra Front offshoot was killed in a drone attack on Monday, the group and jihadist sources said.

They said Sheikh Abu al Faraj al Masri, who spent years in prison in his native Egypt on charges of plotting with fundamentalist Islamist groups and later left for Afghanistan, died when the vehicle in which he was travelling was hit in rebel-held Idlib in Syria&#39;s northwest.

&quot;May God accept him as a martyr who was killed in a Crusader raid,&quot; said a jihadist named Abu Mohammad al Shami.

The US&nbsp;Defense Department said in a statement that Masri was the target of a US&nbsp;air strike near Idlib on Monday. &quot;We are still assessing the results of the strike,&quot; it said.

Since the US-led coalition launched operations in Syria, primarily against Islamic State militants, air strikes have also targeted Nusra Front figures, killing scores.

Syria&#39;s militant Jabhat Fateh al Sham, formerly the Nusra Front, confirmed the death of the Egyptian cleric in an air strike.

In one of Masri&#39;s last public appearances, he was alongside former Nusra leader Abu Mohamad al-Jolani when the group announced in July it was renaming itself Jabhat Fateh al Sham to deny Washington and other powers a pretext to attack it.

Washington dismissed that move as cosmetic and said it would continue to target it as a terrorist group.

Last month, Abu Hajer al Homsi, the group&#39;s top commander, was killed in an air strike in rural Aleppo province.

Masri, 60, whose real name was Sheikh Ahmad Salamah Mabrouk, had been one of the leading companions of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, according to a jihadist source.

Masri was one of the early leaders of the radical militant Egyptian Islamic Jihad movement. He was arrested after the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and spent seven years in prison.

Masri was also held secretly under a CIA rendition scheme after his arrest in Azerbaijan in 1998.

The source said that like some other jihadists, he came to Syria to join Nusra Front after being freed from an Egyptian prison during the rule of President Mohamed Mursi, an Islamist toppled by the military in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.

(Reuters)

They said Sheikh Abu al Faraj al Masri died when the vehicle in which he was travelling was hit in rebel-held Idlib in Syria's northwest

A leading figure in al-Qaeda who became a prominent member of its Syrian Nusra Front offshoot was killed in a drone attack on Monday, the group and jihadist sources said. They said Sheikh Abu al Faraj al Masri, who spent years in prison in his native Egypt on charges of plotting with fundamentalist Islamist groups and later left for Afghanistan, died when the vehicle in which he was travelling was hit in rebel-held Idlib in Syria's northwest. "May God accept him as a martyr who was killed in a Crusader raid," said a jihadist named Abu Mohammad al Shami. The US Defense Department said in a statement that Masri was the target of a US air strike near Idlib on Monday. "We are still assessing the results of the strike," it said. Since the US-led coalition launched operations in Syria, primarily against Islamic State militants, air strikes have also targeted Nusra Front figures, killing scores. Syria's militant Jabhat Fateh al Sham, formerly the Nusra Front, confirmed the death of the Egyptian cleric in an air strike. In one of Masri's last public appearances, he was alongside former Nusra leader Abu Mohamad al-Jolani when the group announced in July it was renaming itself Jabhat Fateh al Sham to deny Washington and other powers a pretext to attack it. Washington dismissed that move as cosmetic and said it would continue to target it as a terrorist group. Last month, Abu Hajer al Homsi, the group's top commander, was killed in an air strike in rural Aleppo province. Masri, 60, whose real name was Sheikh Ahmad Salamah Mabrouk, had been one of the leading companions of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, according to a jihadist source. Masri was one of the early leaders of the radical militant Egyptian Islamic Jihad movement. He was arrested after the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and spent seven years in prison. Masri was also held secretly under a CIA rendition scheme after his arrest in Azerbaijan in 1998. The source said that like some other jihadists, he came to Syria to join Nusra Front after being freed from an Egyptian prison during the rule of President Mohamed Mursi, an Islamist toppled by the military in 2013 after mass protests against his rule. (Reuters)

Prominent al-Qaeda figure killed in drone attack in Syria: Jihadist sources

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Drone attack on civilian vehicle near Syria’s Aleppo airport, two killed

Prominent al-Qaeda figure killed in drone attack in Syria: Jihadist sources