Syrian rebel chief killed

BEIRUT;

A senior member of the Syrian Abrar al Sham
rebel group was killed along with six other
fighters on Tuesday in a double suicide bombing
in norhtwestern Syria a monitor said.,

No group claimed responsibility fr the attack but
the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
it was believed to have been  carried out by
group linked in the Islamic state  group,
The Britain-based monitor said seven members
of  Abrar al Sham a conservative Islamist rebel
groups were killed near the town of Salqin,

Among them was Abu Abdel Rahaman Salqin
described  by Observatory chief Rami Abdel
Rahaman as  one of Abrar al Sham 's most senior
leaders"Abrar  al Sham is one of the most powerful
rebel groups in northern Syria and belongs to
an alliance with Al-Qeada affiliate Al-Nusra Front
that has seized most of Idlib  province in recent months,

Despite its conservative ideology ,Abral Sham
is opposed to IS,
In September  2014 47 members of Abrara al Sham's
leadership were killed when a blast hit a meeting
of its top religious and military chiefs in Idlib,
AFP