KABUL (Pajhwok): The United States killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a strike in Afghanistan over the weekend, President Joe Biden announced on Monday.
The attack represents the biggest blow to the militant organisation since its founder Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan in 2011, according to Reuters.
Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon who had a $25 million bounty on his head, helped coordinate the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States.
The news agency quoted unnamed US officials as saying that Zawahiri died after a US drone strike in Kabul . . .
