Zawahiri's death places al-Qaida in a precarious position, argues Colin P. Clarke of the Soufan Center. The question of succession will help shape al-Qaida now — and it may prove divisive.

Steve Coll on the killing of the Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, and what the stark evidence of the renewed relationship between Al Qaeda, Afghanistan’s leaders, and the Taliban suggests.

Here’s the backstory to the backstory of our July 31 drone strike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, head of al Qaeda, and the apparent connection. In the 1970s, Ion Pacepa, head of Romanian foreign ...

Russia's war in Ukraine is the most pressing concern at the moment, ... Ayman al-Zawahiri, for an interview that was published in November 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks.

On August 2, the United States announced it had killed Ayman al-Zawahiri via an airstrike in Kabul, Afghanistan. The kill was a major symbolic win. Zawahiri was the last remnant of the original ...

Ayman al-Zawahiri, right, adviser to Osama bin Laden, left, sits for an interview in Afghanistan around 2001. Visual News/Getty Images ...

Section 702-acquired information helped contribute to the successful U.S. targeting of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri last year, has helped officials quickly identify foreign perpetrators of ...

In the days since President Joe Biden announced that al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed by a CIA drone strike in Afghanistan, much ink has been spilled about his life and his ...

His focus is Russia and Ukraine, ... D.C. on August 1, 2022 reveals how a U.S. operation killed Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri. Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson, right, ...

Zawahiri's death places al-Qaida in a precarious position, argues Colin P. Clarke of the Soufan Center. The question of succession will help shape al-Qaida now — and it may prove divisive.

Colin P. Clarke (@ColinPClarke) is the director of research at the Soufan Group and a senior research fellow at the Soufan Center. After hunting for him for 21 years, U.S. forces killed al-Qaida ...