The 71-year-old moved to an upscale Kabul neighbourhood after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021
Osama bin Laden seen with Ayman al-Zawahiri in 2001. President Joe Biden said a US strike in Afghanistan over the weekend killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, calling him a longtime terrorist commander who helped plan the 9/11 attacks. File Picture: Daily Dawn via REUTERS
The Taliban confirmed an air strike on a residential house in the Sherpoor area of Kabul, but said there were no casualties. Unverified pictures on social media of what was described as the target of the attack showed shattered windows of a pink building, its fences topped with rolls of barbed wire. The house appeared two to three stories tall and ringed by trees.
The senior Taliban leader said Zawahiri spent most of his time in the mountains of Helmand province’s Musa Qala district after the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 when the US sent troops to the country. In January 2006, CIA-operated Predator drones fired missiles at a house in Damadola, a village in the Pakistani tribal region of Bajaur, in the belief that Zawahiri was visiting. He was not, but at least 18 villagers were killed.Other Taliban sources said the group gave the “highest-level security” to Zawahiri in Kabul, but he was largely inactive operationally and needed the Taliban’s permission to move.
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