The leader of the terrorist organization Al-Qaida is believed to have been killed in a US attack. Sources report this to Reuters news agency. It is about Ayman Al-Zawahiri. The man who, along with Osama bin Laden, was responsible for the September 11 attacks.
Al-Zawahiri, a doctor and surgeon from Egypt, has led al-Qaeda since US commandos killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011. He was also credited with being the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people. He has been on the run since that attack.
There were no civilian casualties in the counterterrorism operation, according to a US official who spoke to the AFP news agency. It was allegedly an attack with a drone by the American intelligence service CIA in the Afghan capital Kabul.
In a statement, a spokesman for the Taliban government in Afghanistan confirmed that an attack had taken place in Kabul. He did not say whether people were killed. The Taliban spokesman condemned the attack. He called it a violation of “international principles”.