August 2, 2022

 The US president Joe Biden has confirmed US military killed the leader of Al-Qaeda, Ayman Al-zawahiri, in a drone strike in Afghanistan.

He was killed in a counter-terrorism operation carried out by the CIA in the afghan capital of Kabul on Sunday.

Biden says Zawahiri had “carved a trail of murder and violence against American citizens” and now justice has been delivered and this terrorist leader is no more.

Zawahiri took over Al-Qaeda after the death of Osama bin laden in 2011. He and bin laden plotted the 9/11 attacks together and he was one of the US’s “most wanted terrorists”.

Officials said Zawahiri was on the balcony of a safe house when the drone fired two missiles at him.