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Ayman al-Zawahiri: Al-Qaida chief killed in US strike

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Ayman al-Zawahiri: Al-Qaida chief killed in US strike

US President Joe Biden announced the death of the terrorist group's chief following a US strike in Afghanistan. Al-Zawahiri was one of the suspected masterminds of the 9/11 attacks. Al-Qaida's top leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden said on Monday. Al-Zawahiri, 71, had led al-Qaida since the militant group's founder Osama bin Laden was killed in a US operation in Pakistan in 2011.  "Justice has been delivered," Biden said after confirming earlier reports that al-Zawahiri was killed. "This terrorist leader is no more." Biden said that he hoped al-Zawahiri's killing brings "one more measure of closure" to families of the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks. What do we know about the US operation? The US carried out the strike over the weekend but delayed releasing the information until his death could be confirmed, officials said earlier on Monday. 
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