China News Service, August 2. According to the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse, US President Biden delivered a speech on the 1st local time and confirmed that the leader of the "Al Qaeda" organization Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed.
"Justice has been served and this terrorist leader is no more," Biden said.
Earlier, U.S. officials said the U.S. killed al-Qaeda leader al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Afghanistan over the weekend.