The United States has announced $5 million rewards for information on 3 senior leaders on an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria. The three have been identified as Abu Abd al-Karim al-Masri, Faruq al-Suri, and Sami al-Uraydi.
The State Department said in announcing the cash payments under its Rewards for Justice program that it wanted information leading to the identification of three senior Huras al-Din leaders, an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria.
Al-Masri is an Egyptian national and is a former member of Huras al-Din’s shura council. Al-Suri, who is also known as Samir Hijazi and Abu Hammam al-Shami, fought in Afghanistan in the 1990s, and later trained al-Qaeda fighters in Iraq. Al-Uraydi is a Jordanian national whom the department alleged was involved in plots to attack Israel and the U.S.
