On July 31, the United States government announced that a successful drone-strike operation had killed Ayman ... the Taliban is about its relationship to individuals and groups like al-Zawahiri ...

The United States has killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri with a drone ... setting the stage for the Taliban's return, al-Zawahiri might never have considered returning to Kabul this year.

The high-profile killing is a rude awakening call for the Taliban to reconsider their ties with al-Qaida – and could empower less hardline elements of the ruling group. The Taliban regime’s ...

The next most wanted figure is the Taliban leader Mullah Omar, with a $10m reward in the US for his capture. Ayman al-Zawahiri (right), with Osama bin Laden in 2001. Reuters Zawahiri will seek to ...

Ayman al-Zawahiri made his remarks in response to questions solicited on a Web site close to al Qaeda. The questions asked his views about Egypt and Iraq as well as Hamas, the militant Islamic ...

Haqqani had continued to be on the US radar even after the Taliban takeover. In 2022, a US drone strike in Kabul killed then-al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. The house in which al-Zawahiri was ...

Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist ... interests and national security." "Senior Taliban and Haqqani Network [Islamist militant organization outlawed in Russia] figures ...

Last week, I reported on a public message from several prominent jihadist ideologues to Ayman al Zawahiri. The ideologues want Zawahiri to issue a statement that more directly condemns the Islamic ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri — the FBI's most-wanted terrorist and Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant — was killed in a US air strike July 31. More from News ...

Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's second-in-command, praises the fighters in Iraq and also urges Pakistanis to topple their president, whom he calls a "bribe-taking, treacherous criminal," in the tape.

As the U.S. executed a drone strike killing Ayman al-Zawahiri, leader of al-Qaeda, many questions remain as to al-Qaeda's future.

The Taliban says the United States has also ... but also members of al-Qaeda – including its leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was spotted and later killed in Kabul by a missile fired from a ...