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The Taliban said Thursday they are investigating what they described as “claims” that al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri was killed in a U.S. drone strike in the Afghan capital.

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Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been killed via a drone strike on the balcony of his four-storey safehouse. Now terrorist leaders are fleeing Kabul while the world takes stock of what this means for the future of Afghanistan.

The U.S. Hellfire missiles that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri dealt al Qaeda a powerful symbolic blow, but its far-flung branches are tactically independent and will not be deterred from plotting more attacks on local and Western targets, experts say

Washington has issued a warning to US travellers overseas of “higher potential for anti-American violence” in the wake of the killing of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

After having killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri with a drone that hit the home he had been hiding in Kabul, the United States has, to a large extent, finished avenging the 9/11 attacks. The perpetrators were killed in bloody attacks, and Osama bin Laden was then killed by Navy…

Senior US officials say the house where Ayman al-Zawahiri died was used or owned by Mr Haqqani and his network who are closely associated with both Al Qaeda and the Taliban

Leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban were holding discussions on Wednesday about how to respond to a U.S. drone strike in Kabul that the United States said killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, three sources in the group said.

United States conducted a precision counterterrorism strike in Afghanistan that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy and successor as leader of al-Qa'ida. Al- Zawahiri was one of the masterminds of the attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001," the US State Department alert on Tuesday (local time)…

The killing of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri by the United States may prompt al Qaeda supporters to target U.S. facilities or citizens with the potential for more anti-American violence, the State Department warned on Tuesday.

Like Osama bin Laden before him, initial reports indicate Ayman al-Zawahiri got a little cocky in his final years. Ultimately, a mix of intelligence and surveillance finally ended the 21-year manhunt for Al Qaeda's leader.