The United States carried out a “counterterrorism operation against a major target within al-Qaeda” in Afghanistan over the weekend. According to various sources, cited in particular by the Associated Press and Sky News, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, leader of the terrorist organization, was killed by a CIA drone strike. Information that has not been confirmed at this time by the White House.
“The operation was successful and caused no civilian casualties,” a senior US administration official said. with journalists.
Joe Biden’s speech tonight
President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak overnight from Monday to Tuesday about a “successful counterterrorism operation,” according to the White House, which did not provide further details.
This announcement comes almost a year after the chaotic withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, which had allowed the Taliban to regain control of the country twenty years later.
The United States had also announced in mid-July that it had killed the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, Maher al-Agal, during a drone strike, an operation that had “significantly weakened ‘ISIS’ ability to prepare, finance and carry out its operations in the region,’ said a US military spokesman.
Source: BFM TV
