France said early this month that its forces killed Al-Qaeda's North Africa wing chief Abdelmalek Droukdel in northern Mali near the Algerian border.
Al-Qaeda's North Africa wing has confirmed that its Algerian chief Abdelmalek Droukdel is dead, according to SITE, the US watchdog for extremist groups.
"After nearly two weeks, AQIM has officially acknowledged the death of its long time leader Droukdel , with a video eulogy narrated by AQIM's head of media, pledging continued battles against occupying French forces and others in N. Africa and the Sahel," SITE director Rita Katz said Thursday on her Twitter account.
AQIM emerged from a group started in the late 1990s by radical Algerian Islamists, who in 2007 pledged allegiance to Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network.
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