President Trump advisor: Syria a haven for ISIS leaders, strikes will limit al-Qaeda’s terrorist actions

Northern Syria – North-Press Agency

Gabriel Souma, a member of President Donald Trump’s advisory council, told North-Press that the Syrian armed opposition group, “al-Qaeda”, pose a “serious threats for the security of American citizens and the security of our allies in the region”.

Souma confirmed that the U.S. Air Forces “bombed al-Qaeda hideouts in northwestern Syria with the aim of eliminating the organization’s leaders in Idlib”.

He said that bombing al-Qaeda’s strategic sites in Syria could limit “the ability of this organization to carry out terrorist operations”.

 The advisory council member also said that Syria is now “a haven for the Islamic State leaders,” noting that “they are coordinating terrorist activities throughout the region and in the West, while the United States and its allies continue to prevent terrorists from spreading in the region”.

Meanwhile, calmness has returned to the de-escalation zones in northwestern Syria, coinciding with the ceasefire since the dawn of Saturday, which was punctuated by violations affecting different parts of Idlib countryside.

After midnight, the Syrian government forces targeted the areas of Deir al-Sharqi , Babolin, al-Tah, Kafr sijnah, Maarat Harmah and Hass in the southern countryside of Idlib, while no casualties were reported.

At the same time, the Syrian and Russian Air Forces were absent in the airspace of the governorates of Idlib, Hama, Aleppo and Latakia, following thousands of raids that hit different areas of the de-escalation zones in the recent months.

Furthermore, the U.S. Central Command of  has announced on Saturday that the U.S. forces have blown a facility belonging to al-Qaeda, north of Idlib, in an attack targeting the leadership of the terrorist group.

As the air strike targeted a poultry building which was taken as training camp by “Ansar al-Tawhid”, which was previously designated as an international terrorist organization by the United States.

The US-led Global Coalition’s strike caused the collapse of the entire building, killing about 45 members of the terrorist group, most of whom were trained, while injuring more than 23 other members.