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In late 2001, bin Laden and al-Zawahiri eluded the grasp of American forces during their invasion of Afghanistan, which al-Qaeda used as a base under the rule of the Taliban. Bin Laden was killed in an American raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011, with al-Zawahiri taking over a weakened al-Qaeda. [5]
STORY: The leader of al Qaeda was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan's capital over the weekend, according to President Joe Biden on Monday, in the biggest blow to the militant group ...
A former leader of the CIA said Tuesday that the focus is already shifting to who will be the next leader of al Qaeda after its former head, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed in a U.S. drone strike.
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.
In a video released in 2008, American-born senior al-Qaeda operative Adam Yahiye Gadahn said that "victory in Kashmir has been delayed for years; it is the liberation of the jihad there from this interference which, Allah willing, will be the first step towards victory over the Hindu occupiers of that Islam land." [346]
Afghanistan said Sunday it has killed a member of Al-Qaeda on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Husam Abd al-Rauf was killed during an operation in East Afghanistan, according to officials. The FBI said ...
On 26 February, a US airstrike in Al-Mastoumeh, Idlib Province, killed Abu Khayr al-Masri, who was the deputy leader of al-Qaeda. He had been dispatched to Syria by al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, and was nested in the Khorasan group. [5] [6] [49] The US airstrike also killed another Tahrir al-Sham militant, who was traveling in the same car ...
[1] [8] Al-Adel fought the Soviets as an Afghan Arab before becoming a founding member of the al-Qaeda organization. He is a member of al-Qaeda's Majlis al-Shura and has headed the organization's military committee since the death of Mohammed Atef in 2001. [9] [10] He is currently known to live in Iran along with several other senior members of ...