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 ...

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

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 ...

Last week, US authorities announced that Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed ... two Hellfire missiles at the house where al-Zawahiri was staying. The Taliban, for their part, condemned the US actions ...

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.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Biden administration has been in talks with the Taliban to exchange Americans ... U.S. drone strike that killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. In addition to Rahim ...

nor am I defending what it has done in Darfur and elsewhere," Ayman al-Zawahiri said in the statement released by al Qaeda's production company, as-Sahab Media. But, he said, "the issue isn't one ...

In the two months since Donald Trump became president, the Taliban has ratcheted up its efforts to ingratiate itself with the Trump administration, appearing to sense an opening to re-establish ...