Al-Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri killed in US drone strike

Global terrorist was tracked to be hiding in Afghanistan&

On Monday, The United States has killed Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, informed the US President Joe Biden. 

According to the information, The strike to eliminate al-Zawahiri was carried out on Saturday, Biden added, underlining that no family member of the slain terrorist was harmed during the operation.

In a significant development, President Joe Biden announced that al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri, a global terrorist, was killed in a US drone strike in Kabul, an operation he hailed as delivering "justice" while expressing hope that it brings "one more measure of closure" to families of the victims of September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

Al-Zawahri and the better-known Osama bin Laden plotted the 9/11 attacks that brought many ordinary Americans their first knowledge of al-Qaida. Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, in an operation carried out by US Navy Seals after a nearly decade-long hunt.

"He will never again, never again, allow Afghanistan to become a terrorist safe haven because he is gone and we're going to make sure that nothing else happens," Biden said. "This terrorist leader is no more," he added. The operation is a significant counterterrorism win for the Biden administration just 11 months after American troops left the country after a two-decade war.

As per the information, The strike was carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to five people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Neither Biden nor the White House detailed the CIA's involvement in the strike. Biden, however, paid tribute to the US intelligence community in his remarks, noting that "thanks to their extraordinary persistence and skill", the operation was a "success."