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2 hours ago · But in the nearly three years since, there’s been only one example of the US acting against a threat from Afghanistan: the August 2022 drone strike that killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
1 day ago · In the past, the United States was the first to announce the assassination of jihadist leaders – as happened with former AQAP leaders Nasser al-Wuhayshi and Qassim al-Raymi, as well as with global Al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. Al-Qaeda would then deny the news, or confirm it and announce a new emir.
5 days ago · According to US intelligence assessments, by September 2023 al-Qaeda in Afghanistan had considerably declined, a year after the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, leaving the group largely directionless. However, other recent evidence contradict this.
1 day ago · August 4, 2022 - Missiles that killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri – while he stood on a balcony in the Afghan capital Kabul – caused minor collateral damage, suggesting they were Hellfire R9X variants. infographic
4 days ago · Ayman al-Zawahiri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden as leader of al-Qaeda, had previously written a long book condemning the Muslim Brotherhood’s pursuit of electoral politics over armed insurrection. Branding the efforts a ‘bitter harvest’, he argued that only a jihadist vanguard would secure Muslim interests – not just by striving for a ...
5 days ago · Those included the Islamic Front, an alliance of local Islamist rebel groups; the Nusrah Front, a network aligned with the central faction of al-Qaeda led by Ayman al-Zawahiri; and fighters loyal to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Names such as Al-Qaeda's founder Osama bin Laden and its ideological leader Ayman al-Zawahiri received ideological training from the Muslim Brotherhood during their youth. The Muslim Brotherhood's concept of jihad inspired Al-Qaeda's global terrorism strategy.
