The United States has killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri with a drone ... setting the stage for the Taliban's return, al-Zawahiri might never have considered returning to Kabul this year.

The high-profile killing is a rude awakening call for the Taliban to reconsider their ties with al-Qaida – and could empower less hardline elements of the ruling group. The Taliban regime’s ...

A U.N. report in July said that al-Zawahiri was, at the time, alive and “communicating freely.” And, in fact, his ability to do so was bolstered by the Taliban’s return to, and consolidation ...

The United States has lifted a $10m reward for information leading to the arrest of a major Taliban leader, Sirajuddin ...

Afghanistan," killing Ayman al-Zawahiri, 71. He said al-Zawahiri was "bin Laden's leader, his deputy at the time the terrorists attacked 9/11. He was deeply involved in the planning of 9/11 ...

The Taliban has admitted that it has two American prisoners, whose freedom it will only grant in return for the release of “ ...

An curved arrow pointing right. 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 ...

Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist ... interests and national security." "Senior Taliban and Haqqani Network [Islamist militant organization outlawed in Russia] figures ...

In the two months since Donald Trump became president, the Taliban has ratcheted up its efforts to ingratiate itself with the ...

Al-Zawahiri was said to have been ... the Doha Agreement,” the 2020 US pact with the Taliban that led to the withdrawal of American forces. Ayman al-Zawahri was an Egyptian-born jihadist who ...