AFP - The head of the Syrian rebel Liwa al-Tawhid Brigade has died of wounds suffered in a regime air strike last week, rebels and a monitor said on Monday.
"Abdel Qader Saleh has been martyred," said a posting on a Facebook page linked to the brigade.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported the death.
"Abdel Qader Saleh, known as Hajji Marea, died of wounds he sustained last Thursday when warplanes targeted the Liwa al-Tawhid leadership," it said in a statement.
"He was taken to Turkey after being wounded, and died in a hospital there before being brought back to Syria for burial," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
Thursday's strike also killed Yussef al-Abbas, known as Abu al-Tayyeb, Liwa al-Tawhid's intelligence chief.
He had been in a car along with Saleh, and another senior figure in the rebel group, Abdelaziz Salameh, who was also wounded.
Following the attack, Liwa al-Tawhid arrested 30 people suspected of being informers for the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
Saleh, chief of operations for Liwa al-Tawhid, was widely seen as the brigade's most important figure.