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The Al-Qaeda Chief’s Death and Its Implications
The U.S. has claimed a drone strike killing al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a Kabul house.
- In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Jerome Drevon explores what this event may mean for the movement and its affiliates.
What do we know about Zawahiri’s death?
On 2 August, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. had killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul on the morning of 31 July.
The U.S. said it had discovered that Zawahiri had returned to the Afghan capital with his family in the spring of 2022, after more than two decades in hiding (as early as 1998, he was wanted for his alleged role in al-Qaeda’s bombings of…