Ayman Al-Zawahiri dead – Osama bin-Laden’s right-hand-man and Al Qaeda chief ‘The Doctor’ killed in US drone strike

AL QAEDA’S leader has been killed in a US drone strike, the Biden administration has announced. Ayman Al-Zawahiri, 71, who founded the terror group behind the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, was taken out in a strike on the Afghan capital Kabul. GettyAl Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri has been killed in a CIA drone strike[/caption] Known as ‘The Doctor’, Al-Zawahiri was believed to have masterminded the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and was on the FBI’s most wanted list. The Al Qaeda chief, who took over from Osama bin Laden after he was killed in 2011, had a $25m bounty on his head. A senior Biden official said in a state that the Egyptian-born terrorist was killed over the weekend in a “counterterrorism operation against a significant Al Qaeda target in Afghanistan”. They added that “the operation was successful and there were no civilian casualties”. Most read in News FINAL GOODBYE Archie Battersbee will have life support turned off at midday TOMORROW MORRISONS DEATH Worker dies at Morrisons warehouse after being 'crushed by collapsing roof' NURSERY HORROR Nursery workers including woman, 18, arrested on suspicion of child cruelty LOVERS BEHIND BARS Glamorous couple who sold cocaine to pay for holidays & clothes jailed IN THE DOCK Fruit picker, 22, in court charged with murdering girl, 9, stabbed to death CELEB ORGY Secrets of world's most exclusive sex club where A-listers go wild are revealed