DHAKA: Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate has released a video of a US suicide bomber who blew himself up at an army post in the northwest of the country.

Moner Mohammad Abu Salha, alias Abu Hurayra al-Amriki, was believed to be the first American national to carry out such an attack in Syria’s more than three-year-old war.

‘I want to rest in the afterlife, not in this world... My heart is not at peace here. Hopefully it will be in heaven,’ Abu Hurayra says in broken Arabic in the 17-minute video posted on YouTube on Friday by Al-Nusra Front, reports The Straits Times.

The footage, released via Al-Nusra’s official channel Al-Manara Al-Baydaa, also shows Abu Hurayra saying, ‘I came to Syria without money to buy a rifle or a pouch’.

BDST: 1630 HRS, JUL 26, 2014