Al-Zawahiri took over al Qaeda after bin Laden was killed in a U.S. strike in May 2011, Biden said in Monday's speech. The Afghanistan War Ends: Last U.S. Plane Leaves After 20 Years — and ...

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri — the FBI's most-wanted terrorist and Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant — was killed in a US air strike July 31. More from News Al Qaeda leader Ayman al ...

Since then, the “kinetic” weapon has also been used to kill Al Qaeda commander Ayman Zawahiri in Afghanistan in 2022. That attack followed a disastrous US strike on a suspected ISIS hideout in ...