On July 31, the United States government announced that a successful drone-strike operation had killed Ayman ... al-Zawahiri and Al Qaida,” Ruger said. Indeed, Zawahiri’s death in Kabul ...

Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist ... a high-ranking US administration official said. "At <…> 6:18 am Kabul time on July 31, the United States undertook a precision ...

It is worth mentioning that Afghanistan’s acting president-in-exile Amrullah Saleh told News18 in an exclusive interview that the US came to know that Ayman al-Zawahiri was living in Kabul in an ...

The merger of al-Qaida in Iraq and the al-Nusra Front in Syria is a harbinger of advances for militant Islam in the Middle East, underlining how the Syrian civil war has become the catalyst for ...

leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in Kabul, Russian Foreign Ministry Deputy Spokesman Ivan Nechayev said at a briefing on Thursday. "We do not undertake to confirm the reliability of US ...

Ayman al-Zawahiri made his remarks in response to questions solicited on a Web site close to al Qaeda. The questions asked his views about Egypt and Iraq as well as Hamas, the militant Islamic ...

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 ...

Last week, I reported on a public message from several prominent jihadist ideologues to Ayman al Zawahiri. The ideologues want Zawahiri to issue a statement that more directly condemns the Islamic ...

A detail from the FBI poster offering a reward for information leading to the capture or conviction of Saif al-Adel. [FBI] More than six months after the United States killed al-Qaida leader Ayman ...

Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's second-in-command, praises the fighters in Iraq and also urges Pakistanis to topple their president, whom he calls a "bribe-taking, treacherous criminal," in the tape.

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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 ...