Abu al-Nour played a leading frontline role in the capture of Dirkhabiyah, a village that neighbors Khan al-Shih, during a joint offensive with al-Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham last month.

Rebel areas in West Ghouta, a region located in the Southwestern parts of Damascus city, have been besieged by the Syrian Army although government forces currently seem more focused on gaining ground in the Eastern Ghouta.

Meantime earlier this week, another notorious field commander of al-Nusra Front was killed in clashes with the Syrian military forces in the mountainous regions in Northern Lattakia near the border with Turkey.

Abu Hajar al-Banshi was killed in heavy fighting with the Syrian soldiers near the village of Kabaneh.

Also, the top field commander of the terrorist group of the Caucasus' Soldiers was killed by the Syrian army soldiers in the militants' failed attack on the government forces' strongholds in Northern Lattakia.

Adam Shishani, a notorious field commander of non-Syrian terrorists with Chechen nationality, was killed in the group's unsuccessful offensive on the army's positions in Kurds mountain, FNA reported.

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