Nusra Front says it killed Hama governor

Islamist militant group the al-Nusra Front took on Tuesday responsibility for the assassination of the governor of Syria’s Hama province. The group said the assassination was in retaliation for a chemical attack against civilians in Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus which it blamed on the Syrian army. The front announced on its Twitter account that a car bomb was used to kill the governor and a number of his companions on Sunday. Furthermore the group vowed to retaliate against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad directly, for the chemical attack. Leader of the al-Nusra Front, Abu Mohamed al-Jolani, said in an audio message published on a number of websites that there will be retaliatory attacks against the Syrian regime on Sunday. The statement came just hours before Syrian state television announced the governor had been