Washington Examiner

Ayman al Zawahiri’s death evinces a tactical win but also a broader strategic loss

The killing on Saturday of al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri serves the causes of justice and global security. It is a tactical counterterrorism victory that accrues strategic benefit via a weakened ...
The Africa Report

Al-Zawahiri: From Cairo campuses to Kandahar caves, the jihadist route of Bin Laden’s successor

This article was originally published on 2 May 2021. We are republishing it today after the announcement of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s death by US President Joe Biden. At an age when most people are just ...
Washington Examiner

A former CIA officer’s reflections on Ayman al Zawahiri’s demise

The drone strike that killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri in Kabul is good news. Still, it evokes deep emotions from scores of U.S. intelligence personnel who worked for decades in the shadows to ...
Yahoo

The Zawahiri Strike Revealed How the Taliban Has Given Al-Qaeda 'VIP Treatment' in Afghanistan

The killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri on a balcony in Afghanistan’s capital on Sunday morning demonstrated the deadly power and reach of U.S. intelligence services, even a full year after President Biden ...
The National Interest

Zawahiri’s Assassination Proves the War in Afghanistan Is Far From Over

A little more than a month ago, in the early morning of July 31, Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by a U.S. Reaper drone over Kabul. At the time, he was taking in the morning airs upon a ...
The New Yorker

Ayman al-Zawahiri and the Taliban

During his long career as a polemicist and a strategist of terror, Ayman al-Zawahiri often taunted the United States. He hewed to the familiar theme that America was an apostate power at war with ...
Newsweek

Al-Zawahiri Strike: U.S. Bargain With the Taliban Was Always a Bad Deal | Opinion

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The U.S. drone strike that killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Why al-Zawahiri’s death should focus attention on nuclear terrorism—foreign and domestic

The news that Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the al-Qaeda terror group, was killed in a drone strike is not just a counterterrorism victory, but also a win for ...
FactCheck.org

Posts Make Unfounded Claims About Death of Al-Qaeda Leader

The U.S. announced it had conducted a drone strike on July 31 killing al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul. But social media posts make unfounded claims that al-Zawahiri had died in 2020 from ...
CNN

First on CNN: Top US officials hold first in-person meeting with the Taliban since the US killed al Qaeda’s leader in July

Top Biden administration officials met in-person with the Taliban on Saturday for the first time since al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by the US in his apartment in Kabul in late July, ...
Washington Examiner

Zawahiri strike raises new questions about US ‘over-the-horizon’ capabilities

Zawahiri, who has been credited with the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings that had killed hundreds in several East African cities and the 9/11 terror attacks, had been ...