Tuesday, August 2, 2022 – 8:31 am
WASHINGTON, 2nd August, 2020 (WAM) — US President Joe Biden announced today the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda terrorist organization, in a raid carried out by a US drone, last Saturday, in Afghanistan.
Biden added that no one from the al-Zawahiri family was injured in the strike, nor were there any civilian casualties, noting that the intelligence services had located al-Zawahiri earlier this year, stressing that Afghanistan would never again become a safe haven for terrorists.
A senior official in the US administration announced earlier in the day that the United States carried out a “successful anti-terror operation against an Al-Qaeda target in Afghanistan over the weekend.”
The official, whose name was not revealed, described the target as “important”, stressing that no civilians were injured as a result of the operation.
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Wam/ Emad Al Ali