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Al-Qaeda Chief killed by the US on a drone strike in Kabul. The drone strike took place when Zawahiri was standing on his house balcony early in the morning.
CIA Planned this attack very carefully so that not a single civilian was hurt by this attack. US President confirmed Zawahiri's death on a live television address.
US drone strike took place in Afghanistan after a year; when President Biden withdrew his troops from Afghanistan last year august.
Who was al-Zawahiri?
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Zawahiri was born in Egypt's capital, Cairo on 19 June 1951 and came from a highly educated family.
His father was a Pharmacology professor in Cairo University’s medical school. His grandfather was Rabia al-Zawahiri a grand imam of al-Azhar, the centre of Sunni Islamic Learning in the Middle East. His uncle was the first secretary-general of the Arab League.
Zawahiri himself learned medicine and completed his master's degree in surgery from Cairo University's Medical School in 1978.
Rise of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad-
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After the strike, US President Biden came live on television and addresses the US citizens from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House.
He said in his address that Justice has been delivered and it will bring closure to the families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks.
The US warns its Citizen Abroad of attacks by Terror Groups-
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