26.05.2023 - 07:20 [ Washington Post ]

U.S. officials walk back claim drone strike killed senior al-Qaeda leader

(May 18, 2023)

Lotfi Hassan Misto, 56, whose family identified him as the victim of a Hellfire missile attack on May 3, was a former bricklayer who lived quietly in this town in northwest Syria, according to interviews with his brother, son and six others who knew him. They described a kind, hard-working man whose “whole life was spent poor.”