Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 2 August 2022

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1. US kills al-Qaeda leader

The CIA has killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a drone strike in Afghanistan. US president Joe Biden said Zawahiri, who took over al-Qaeda after the death of Osama Bin Laden in 2011, had “carved a trail of murder and violence against American citizens”. The US believes he and Bin Laden plotted the September 11 attacks together. The New York Post described the assassination as “the most significant US counter-terror operation since the 2019 slaying of Isis commander Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi”.

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