Event
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian terrorist who became the 2nd Emir of al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden's death in 2011, is killed in an airstrike in Kabul
31 Jul 2022 · 34.53° N, 69.18° E
What the records say
- When
- 31 Jul 2022
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 34.53° N, 69.18° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Summary
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian terrorist who became the 2nd Emir of al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden's death in 2011, is killed in an airstrike in Kabul, Afghanistan conducted by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency.
2 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “مقتل زعيم تنظيم القاعدة أيمن الظواهري عن عمر 71 عامًا، في غارة أمريكية بطائرة مسيرة في كابل عاصمة أفغانستان”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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