Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri
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On 31 July 2022, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the Salafi jihadist group al-Qaeda, was killed by a United States drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan.
U.S. president Joe Biden meets with his national security team on July 1 to discuss the drone strike on Ayman al-Zawahiri. The wooden box in front of Biden contains a replica of the house where al-Zawahiri was living in Kabul, Afghanistan.
The scale model of al-Zawahiri's house shown to Biden and used by officials in preparation for the strike
Osama bin Laden
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Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his killing in 2011. A Salafi jihadist, bin Laden worked to establish a pan-Islamist caliphate
Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri
…States drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. Al-Zawahiri was one of the planners of the September 11 attacks against the United States. He succeeded Osama bin Laden as leader of al-Qaeda after bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan on 2 May 2011. He was located and tracked by the Central Intelligence Agency…
Bin Laden, c. 1997–1998
Muhammad bin Ladin, Osama's father
Entrance to the Dubai headquarters of the Saudi Binladin Group
Al-Aqsa in East Jerusalem