Chief of the military council of the so-called "Free Syrian Army", Ahmad Nawaf Dorra, was killed on Wednesday in Syria’s Qalamoun in rural Damascus, the opposition UK-based Observatory for Human Rights.

Chief of the military council of the so-called "Free Syrian Army", Ahmad Nawaf Dorra, was killed on Wednesday in Syria's Qalamoun in rural Damascus, the opposition UK-based Observatory for Human Rights.

The Observatory said in a media e-mail on Thursday that Dorra was killed along with the military commander of "Sword of Truth Brigade", the dissident assistant Bilal Kharyosh, with four other militants in an air strike on Fleita area amid violent clashes.

"Head of Revolutionary Military Council in Qalamoun and the head of Sword of Truth Brigade, the dissident major Ahmad Nawaf Dorra, the military commander of Sword of Truth Brigade, the dissident assistant Bilal Khoryosh, and four other fighters, were killed in bombing and clashes yesterday with the Syrian army in the vicinity of Fleita town in Qalamoun north of Damascus.