The US President has announced a statement for the evening.
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Washington The US has killed the head of the extremist network al-Qaeda in Kabul with a drone attack. Aiman al-Zawahiri was killed in the operation by the US secret service CIA, US government officials told Reuters on Monday. Al-Zawahiri was believed to be the successor to Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 attacks on four passenger planes in the United States that killed over 3,000 people. Bin Laden was killed in a US special forces operation in Pakistan in 2011. US President Joe Biden wanted to comment on the events on Monday.
The radical Islamic Taliban said a residential building in Kabul was attacked with a drone on Sunday. They condemned the attack and accused the US of violating international principles and the treaty to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan. The Taliban took control of Afghanistan last summer. The USA and its allies left the country after years of military action. The Taliban government is not recognized internationally.
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