Biden to announce death of top Al Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri, sources say

BREAKING: Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan, President Biden says.

is expected to announce Monday night that a U.S. counterterrorism operation over the weekend in Afghanistan killed top Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

A senior administration official said there were no civilian casualties in the counterterrorism operation that killed al-Zawahiri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden as the head of Al Qaeda in 2011.Al-Qaeda's then-deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, on Jan. 30, 2006.Biden will give remarks about the operation at the White House at 7:30 p.m. ET, according to the senior administration official.

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