The Syrian Islamist insurgents’ leader Hassan Abboud has been killed in a bomb blast at a meeting.
Hassan, the leader of Ahrar al-Sham, was killed with other top commanders, when a suicide bomber detonated a vest in the attack in the north-western town of Ram Hamdan, reports BBC
Ahrar al-Sham is part of the Islamic Front, a coalition of seven Islamist rebel groups.
In February, Ahrar al-Sham blamed the rival Islamic State group for an attack which killed several of its members.
Activist groups claimed at least 40 people may have died in the attack.
Ahrar al-Sham is one of the biggest rebel groups fighting the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
IS was blamed when another Ahrar al-Sham leader, Abu Khaled al-Suri, was killed in a suicide bomb attack on his headquarters in Aleppo in February.
The death of Hassan Abboud comes at a moment when the Americans are seeking to unify the Syrian opposition into a coordinated fighting force against IS, although Ahrar al-Sham would have made an unlikely partner in such an American-led campaign.
