soil and not for the first time. injanuary 2020, then us president donald trump ordered the strike that killed iranian commander qasem soleimani in iraq. the us claimed it acted in self defence to prevent imminent attacks, which is generally seen as permissible under the un charter. the us admitted to mistakenly killing ten civilians in a strike during last year s withdrawalfrom kabul, but the pentagon concluded it didn t break any laws as the operators genuinely believed they were targeting an imminent threat to us forces . let s hear from a laws of war specialist. saturday, at my direction, the united states successfully considered an air strike in cabell afghanistan. fiur considered an air strike in cabell afghanistan- considered an air strike in cabell afu hanistan. ., ,., ., , afghanistan. our apologies, we were exectin: afghanistan. our apologies, we were expecting to afghanistan. our apologies, we were expecting to hear afghanistan. our apologies, we were expecting to
struck in 2020 between the taliban and the united states. the taliban called saturday s drone strike a clear violation of the agreement. but so did the us secretary of state antony blinken accused the taliban of grossly violating the agreement by hosting and sheltering ayman al zawahiri in kabul. under the terms of the pact, the taliban agreed they would not harbour al-qaida members in afghanistan. and the us said it would refrain from the use of force against afghanistan or intervening in its domestic affairs. the death of al-qaeda s leader is a undoubtedly a blow to the group. here s security lecturer afzal ashraf. it is the end of the al-qaeda that existed during and shortly after the 9/11 era. ayman al zawahiri is the last of the iconic leaders, of course, osama bin laden has been killed, and so have others. so, the
i couldn t believe it when i heard al zawahiri was living next door. we see people who are neither from this neighbourhood nor from afghanistan. they don t speak any of the local languages. some of them are seen going around by taliban security guards and it is not clear who they are. now everybody thinks about their safety. and i guess there are more people like and in afghanistan at the moment. i people like and in afghanistan at the moment- people like and in afghanistan at the moment. ., , , the moment. ifeel horrible, every da can the moment. ifeel horrible, every day can places the moment. ifeel horrible, every day can places where the moment. ifeel horrible, every day can places where i the moment. ifeel horrible, every day can places where i have - the moment. ifeel horrible, every day can places where i have no - day can places where i have no safety day can places where i have no safety we day can places where i have no safety. we women are dealing with a lot of s
point here is that the old al-qaeda is dead, but the brand of al-qaeda will continue, as indeed the nazi brand continued after the death of hitler and the defeat of the nazis in germany. i don t think we could call it an end, but a transition phase in whichever al-qaeda marks into eventually. an awful lot to discuss. we will now join our chief international bbc correspondent lyse doucet from kabul. how was this man in afghanistan and the first place? what do we know about why he was there? the details are still very about why he was there? the details are still very sketchy. about why he was there? the details are still very sketchy. there - about why he was there? the details are still very sketchy. there are - about why he was there? the details are still very sketchy. there are so i are still very sketchy. there are so many ministries and so much speculation that swirls around al zawahiri, and it continues to this day with people here in kabul expressing scepticism that he had a