Al-Qaeda leader dies in US drone strike

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Al-Qaeda leader dies in US drone strike

By Naveel Krishant

Tuesday 02/08/2022

Ayman al-Zawahiri in a video message obtained in 2012. [Image: Site Intelligence Group/AFP/Getty Images]

An American counter-terrorism operation in Afghanistan has killed the al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

US media are reporting that he was killed in a drone strike carried out by the CIA in Kabul.

There is no independent confirmation of this at present.

However, the White House says that President Joe Biden will give details of the operation in Afghanistan in the next few hours.

[Source: BBC]

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