This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

I welcome my colleagues, Hussain O'Connie, of the Hudson Institute, former ambassador from

Pakistan to the United States, and Bill Rajo, of the Foundation for the Defense

of Democracy, senior fellow, keeping the Long War Journal report on the Long War Journal right

now by Bill about a sent-com-vowsaf strike in Idlib province against an ISIS senior.

This is the third strike by the Trump administration I learned from Bill. Bill,

the man is confirmed dead. What was his role? And what is the significance of striking

al-Qaeda in Idlib while al-Qaeda's in Damascus as well? Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. Yes. So this strike, very little information. There's nothing information

about the individual who was killed publicly.

Sincom described him as a senior leadership facilitator. That's a quote. That's all the

information we have. But typically people that play that role, they tend to fundraise when they,

facilitation could be all over the place. It could be financial. It could be, you know,

financial fundraising, paying the bills. It could be recruiting. It could be communications,

working between groups, between different branches of the group. So it's the third strike since President Trump took office.

There was only two strikes against the al-Qaeda's branch in Syria.

It's called Hira Saldin.

It's broke off from the group that controls central Syria,

that people are recognizing as the government of Syria, even though it's sort of the government of Damascus and al-Ams.

And that was Hayat Tahir al-Sham.

This is when HTS was trying to distance itself from al-Qaeda to be able to get to the point where it is today, where it has international recognition.

But the reality is there's deep ties between these groups, strikes against... to be able to get to the point where it is today, where it has international recognition.

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