The SITE website, which monitors the activities of "extremist groups" on the Internet, said on Friday that Al-Qaeda has published a 35-minute video claiming to be in the voice of its leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was killed by the United States in a US raid last July in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
The recording is undated, and the text does not clearly indicate a specific time frame for when it was recorded.
On August 2, US President Joe Biden announced the killing of Al-Zawahiri in a US raid in Afghanistan that took place on July 30, in the biggest blow to the organization since the killing of its founder, Osama bin Laden, in an American attack in Pakistan in 2011.
US officials stated that the United States killed Al-Zawahiri with a missile fired from a drone while he was standing on the balcony of a house where he was hiding in Kabul last July.
Al-Zawahiri had been in hiding for years, and a senior US administration official said the process of locating and killing him was the result of "careful, diligent and persistent" work by counter-terrorism and intelligence agencies.
Al-Qaeda has not named a successor to al-Zawahiri.
However, experts consider Saif al-Adl, a former officer in the Egyptian Special Forces and a high-ranking leader in al-Qaeda, to be the most prominent candidate to succeed him.
The United States has offered a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to his arrest.
It is noteworthy that the Afghan government spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, had stated on August 25 that the government had not found al-Zawahiri's body in the house that was targeted by the American air strike.
He said at the time that they were trying to find out the identity of the targeted person because his body had turned into pieces, and indicated that investigations were still ongoing in this incident, but he did not reveal the stage reached by those investigations.