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    Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri (Arabic: أيمن محمد ربيع الظواهري, romanized: ʾAyman Muḥammad Rabīʿ aẓ-Ẓawāhirī; 19 June 1951 – 31 July 2022) was an Egyptian-born...
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    Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the Salafi jihadist group al-Qaeda, was killed by a United States drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. Al-Zawahiri was...
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  • Author:Ayman al-Zawahiri There have been several videos released showing Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. This video featuring al-Zawahiri referenced...
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    bin Laden, Muhammad Atef, Ayman al-Zawahiri and other veterans of the Soviet–Afghan War. Building upon the networks of Maktab al-Khidamat, the founding members...
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  • War on Terror. He was the younger brother of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Muhammad Rabie al-Zawahiri was born in Dokki, Giza, Egypt around 1953....
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  • Shura council members including al-Adel, Saeed al-Masri and Mahfouz Ould al-Walid opposed Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri's decision to execute the September...
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    organization". In April 2013, Al-Nusra Front was publicly confirmed as the official Syrian affiliate of al-Qaeda, after Emir Ayman al-Zawahiri rejected the forced...
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    and Ayman al-Zawahiri to raise funds and recruit foreign mujahideen for the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. MAK became the forerunner to al-Qaeda...
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    Liberation Front, al-Mourabitoun and the Saharan branch of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Its leaders swore allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahiri. In 2022, the...
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    expansion into Syria and its intention to absorb the Al-Nusra Front. Al-Qaeda Emir Ayman al-Zawahiri strongly denounced the announcement and officially...
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  • Nabila al-Zawahiri (Arabic: نبيلة الظواهري, romanized: ʾNabila al-Ẓawāhirī, born 1986) is the daughter of Al-Qaeda co-founder Ayman al-Zawahiri and the...
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  • article "al-" is sometimes omitted. Alternate spellings include Dhawahiri, Dhawahri, and Zawahri. Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951-2022), Egyptian al-Qaeda leader...
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    between the Al-Joulani and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to resolve any potential differences under the mediation of al-Qaeda Emir Ayman al-Zawahiri. Al-Julani's...
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  • messages to the two biggest terrorists, Osama bin Laden and [his deputy] Ayman al-Zawahiri," Maliki added. U.S. forces commander Gen. Raymond Odierno praised...
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    is the son-in-law of the group's late emir Ayman al-Zawahiri, and is seen as a potential successor to Saif al-Adel as leader of the terror group. Though...
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    in the assassination of Qasem Soleimani as well as the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The AGM-114 has occasionally been used as an air-to-air missile....
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    Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri asserted that Israeli repression of Palestinians during the Al-Aqsa Intifada was the immediate cause that forced Al-Qaeda to...
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    council and is a close associate of al-Qaida leaders Saif al-Adel and Ayman al-Zawahiri. Prior to joining al-Qaida, al-Bakri was a member of the Egyptian...
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  • February 2017) was an Egyptian al-Qaeda leader who has been described as the general deputy to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Al-Masri was a member of Egyptian...
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    militant Abu Ayyub al-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir. In a letter to al-Zarqawi in July 2005, Al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri outlined a four-stage...
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  • of contemporary era such as Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Saif al-Adel, etc. Its ideas have also been adopted by the Salafi-jihadist...
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  • Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin, the official branch of Al-Qaeda in Mali, after its leaders swore allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahiri. Al-Mourabitoun was...
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  • Levant". Al-Qaeda Emir Ayman al-Zawahiri denounced the merger proposal and demanded the abolishment of the new organization, publicly declaring that Al-Nusra...
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  • supreme leader of the Taliban in May 2016. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, backed Akhundzada as the Amir al-Mu'minin, which strengthened Akhundzada's...
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    dead. It was speculated at the time that Osama bin Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri was among those trapped by the Pakistan Army, but he either escaped...
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  • Ayman ibn Ubayd, early Muslim and son of Umm Ayman Aiman Khwajah Sultan, Prince of Moghulistan Ayman al-Zawahiri, leader of al-Qaeda 2011–22 Ayman Safadi...
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  • civilians, including seven children. Later, a drone strike killed Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Scholarly opinions are mixed regarding the efficacy of drone...
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  • met Ayman al-Zawahiri, who later introduced him to Osama bin Laden. He attended two meetings from August 11 to 20 in 1988, along with bin Laden, al-Zawahiri...
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    to press reports, included Ayman al-Zawahiri, since 2011 the leader of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization, and al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya. Following the 1981...
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    overthrow secular governments, most notably Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri of al-Qaeda, as well as the Salafi-jihadi terrorist group ISIL/ISIS/IS/Daesh...
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