(MENAFN) The deputy leader of al-Qaeda was the target of an air strike in the Syrian province of Idlib on Sunday, according to unconfirmed reports.
It is not clear whether Abu al-Khayr al-Masri survived the attack.
The Egyptian is second-in-command to overall al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Syrian opposition activists, the Local Co-ordination Committees, posted photographs showing a car in which two people had been killed, it said.
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