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US bombs al-Qaeda offshoot Khorasan

The al-Qaeda offshoot Khorasan group in Syria have been bombed by US aircraft, the US has confirmed.

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US aircraft have bombed the Khorasan group in Syria, in the third attack on the al-Qaeda offshoot since early August, the US military's Central Command says.

"We can confirm that US aircraft struck a target in Syria earlier today associated with a network of veteran al-Qaeda operatives, sometimes called the 'Khorasan group', who are plotting external attacks against the United States and our allies," spokesman Colonel Patrick Ryder has told AFP.


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