Al Qaeda top leader Ayman al-Zawahiri killed in CIA attack

August 2, Kathmandu: US President Joe Biden has confirmed the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda, in an attack by the US military. 

President Biden mentioned that Al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri was killed in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Sunday in a drone attack by the American intelligence agency CIA.

After the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011, Al-Zawahiri had led the terror group. 

Al-Zawahiri is considered as one of the main planners of the “9/11” attack in 2001. 

The attack had killed two thousand nine hundred and ninety-six people.