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Washington (AFP) - The United States has killed Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, according to US media outlets, in what the White House announced Monday was a "successful" operation against a target in Afghanistan.

Bret Baier called the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri a “major, major get” for both the president and United States

Mali’s military says two attackers have been neutralised after the latest attack on a military base.

The UNDP’s Resident Representative in Kabul, Afghanistan, Abdullah Dardari, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the political dialogue between the international body and the Taliban was constructive and making progress before the latter issued a decision to ban girls from education. Dardari noted that the Taliban is fighting a vicious and explicit…

US Africa Command says strike in southern Lower Juba region was carried out in response to attack on ‘partner forces’.

A constellation of factors have converged to bolster the Islamist militant group in Somalia, writes Sudarsan Raghavan

The Pentagon said Tuesday that it killed a leader of the ISIS group in Syria in a drone strike. US Central Command said in a news release that Maher al-Agal was killed Tuesday and an unidentified senior official in the ISIS group was seriously injured. The Pentagon said there were…

The country is emerging as a critical ally in a neighbourhood of failing states

A drone strike by the US-led coalition in northwestern Syria killed a senior member of an al-Qaeda-linked group, Syrian opposition activists and the US military said Tuesday. The attack on the suspected militant, who was riding a motorcycle at the time, came shortly before midnight on Monday - the latest…