Biggest blow to global terror network WASHINGTON, Aug 2: Al-Qaeda’s reclusive chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, who played central role in 9/11 attacks and later created the group’s regional affiliate in the Indian subcontinent, has been killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan’s Kabul, in the biggest blow to the global terror network since killing of its founder Osama bin Laden in 2011 in Pakistan. Zawahiri, who assumed the leadership of al-Qaeda after the death of bin Laden, was killed in […]
(CNN) — The United States killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Zawahiri, who just turned 71 years old, had remained a visible international symbol of the group, 11 years after the US killed Osama Bin Laden. At one point, he acted as bin […]