It is the latest US strike this year against the group in Syria. Along with its Western and Arab allies, the United States has emphasized that Syria must not serve as a base for “terrorist” groups after the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad in December.
On Friday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces “conducted a precision airstrike in northwest Syria, killing Wasim Tahsin Bayraqdar, a senior leadership facilitator of the terrorist organization Hurras al-Din,” the military said in a statement.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said a drone strike on a car killed Bayraqdar.
Last Sunday, CENTCOM said it killed “a senior finance and logistics official” in Hurras al-Din.
That came after CENTCOM last month reported killing another senior Hurras al-Din operative, Muhammad Salah al-Zabir, in an airstrike also in the northwest.
The US-based SITE Intelligence Group said Hurras al-Din was founded in February 2018.
The group did not publicly confirm its allegiance to al-Qaeda until its dissolution announcement in January.
The United States designated Hurras al-Din as a “terrorist” organization in 2019.
