The U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Monday killed 6 people, including senior commander from Haya't Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.
The strike targeted a car carrying Abu Jaber al-Hamwi, senior commander in the powerful alliance that includes former al-Qaeda group, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as Nusra Front, near Sarmada town.
Al-Hamwi was killed with three more fighters from Jaish al-Fateh and two civilians as the U.S.led coalition extended its aerial bombing campaign against Islamist rebels in the northern province.
In relevant development, the coalition said Monday it saw no imminent danger to a major hydroelectric dam that allied Syrian militias are fighting to take from Islamic State, unless the jihadists planned to blow it up.
It spoke after a senior Syrian government official warned on Sunday that the Tabqa Dam had already been damaged by U.S.-led air strikes targeting Islamic State and cited an increasing risk of catastrophic flooding and collapse.
For its part, Islamic State said on Sunday that the dam's operating systems were not working properly and it was vulnerable to collapse.
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters, paused operations for four hours on Monday to allow engineers to inspect the Euphrates Dam at Tabqa, a major target in their campaign to encircle and capture Islamic State's biggest urban stronghold of Raqqa.
