Taliban Says the Group Has Not Found Al-Qaeda Chief’s Body

After the US claimed the al-Qaeda chief was killed in a US drone airstrike in Kabul last month, the Taliban announced on Thursday that they have not discovered Ayman al-Zawahiri’s body and that the group is still conducting investigations.

The body of al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has not yet been discovered, according to Zabihullah Mujahid, the senior spokesman for the Taliban government who spoke at a press conference in Kabul, the Afghan capital. 

The Taliban official stated that the group has not yet been successful in finding the dead body of Ayman al-Zawahiri.

The fact that two Hellfire missiles fired from a drone killed the al-Qaeda leader while doing astonishingly little damage elsewhere suggests they are reportedly a type of the missile the US uses to prevent non-combatant fatalities.

The drone strike was reportedly confirmed by members of the Taliban, longtime partners of al-Qaeda, but they claimed the house struck was unoccupied, according to Reuters.

Previously, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the chief of Al-Qaeda, was reportedly killed in a CIA drone operation in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, according to Joe Biden, the president of the US, who announced the news in a special broadcast.

The death of Ayman al-Zawahiri, in the eyes of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, has improved global security.

By “hosting and sheltering” the al-Qaeda chief in Kabul, the Taliban administration in Afghanistan violated its commitments to the international community, according to the US official.

The new announcement from the Taliban comes as previously they had announced that the group did not have knowledge of al-Zawahiri’s “arrival and stay” in Kabul.

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