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Al-Zawahiri was one of the planners of the September 11 attacks against the United States. He succeeded Osama bin Laden as leader of al-Qaeda after bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan on 2 May 2011. He was located and tracked by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) months before his death.
Speculation has grown that the U.S. used a secret Hellfire missile nicknamed the 'knife bomb' to kill Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri.
After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body. For over two decades, bin Laden has been al Qaeda’s leader and symbol, and has continued to plot attacks against our country and our friends and allies. The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation’s effort to defeat al Qaeda.
Al-Qaeda is a way of working ... but this has the hallmark of that approach ... Al-Qaeda clearly has the ability to provide training ... to provide expertise ... and I think that is what has occurred here." [158] On August 13, 2005, The Independent newspaper, reported that the July 7 bombers had acted independently of an al-Qaeda mastermind. [159]
Thousands have been killed and millions displaced in the region, and some fighters are allied with Al Qaeda or Islamic State. Tuesday's attack was claimed by Al Qaeda affiliate Jama'a Nusrat ul ...
The National Security Agency is revealing aspects it never disclosed before about its role in helping the U.S. government track down Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda founder and terrorist who ...
Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri (Arabic: أيمن محمد ربيع الظواهري, romanized: ʾAyman Muḥammad Rabīʿ aẓ-Ẓawāhirī; 19 June 1951 – 31 July 2022) was an Egyptian-born pan-Islamist militant and physician who served as the second general emir of al-Qaeda from June 2011 until his death in July 2022.
The US recently killed 37 terrorists in Syria, including multiple senior leaders of ISIS and Hurras al-Din, an affiliate of al Qaeda, it was announced Sunday.