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American forces killed a senior leader of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group in a strike in Syria on Friday, the US military said. The strike targeted Abu Abdul Rahman al-Makki, who was “a Hurras al-Din Shura Council member and senior leader responsible for overseeing terrorist operations from Syria,” the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a social media post. “Hurras al-Din is an Al-Qaeda-associated force based in Syria that shares Al-Qaeda’s global aspirations to conduct attacks against US and Western interests,” CENTCOM said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor had earl…

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