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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Joe Biden announced Monday evening that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed in a drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan over the weekend. "I authorized a precision strike that would remove him from the battlefield," Biden said in live remarks from the Blue Room Balcony at the White House. "There were no civilian casualties." Al-Zawahiri, 71, became head of al-Qaeda in 2011 after its longtime leader Osama bin Laden was shot and killed by U.S. forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan during a raid. Biden's announcement came nearly a year after the U.S. military completed...
