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Taliban Say Bomb Kills 8 People in Kabul

A bomb hidden in a cart went off on Friday near a mosque in a minority Shiite neighborhood of the Afghan capital, killing at least eight people and wounding 18, a Taliban official said. Also Friday, hundreds of Afghans — apparently organized by the Taliban — rallied in several provinces,…

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Taliban say bomb kills 8 people in Shiite area of Kabul

The Taliban say at least eight people have been killed after a bomb hidden in a cart went off near a mosque in a minority Shiite neighborhood in the Afghan capital

The Independent UK

Islamic State claims responsibility for blast in Afghanistan's capital

The Islamic State militant group claimed on Friday responsibility for a blast in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, the group said on its telegram channel.

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Blast hits Afghanistan's capital Kabul - official

An explosion in a Shi'ite residential area in Afghanistan's capital city Kabul on Friday killed at least two people and left three wounded, police said.

Reuters

Feared Taliban family dubbed 'The Sopranos of Terror' killed by US 'ninja' missile

Members of the Taliban mafia have been killed alongside the Al-Qaeda boss in Afghanistan. Sources told the Mirror that Ayman al-Zawahiri was not the only person to die in the missile strike

Daily Mirror

Anti-U.S. protests erupt in Afghanistan

Hundreds of Afghans carried anti-American banners on Friday to protest against a U.S. drone strike that Washington says killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri this month.

Reuters

We visited a Taliban leader's compound to examine his vision for Afghanistan

On the day a U.S. drone strike killed the leader of al-Qaida in Afghanistan, NPR sat down for an interview with the man in charge of the country's defense.

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Taliban say they were unaware of al-Qaida leader’s presence in Kabul

Top Taliban officials didn’t know al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was hiding in Afghanistan, a spokesman said, and an investigation is underway to check the veracity of U.S. claims he was killed in an American airstrike in the capital Kabul over the weekend.

Tribune News Service

How could a secret Hellfire missile kill Ayman al-Zawahiri without leaving a scratch on his house or family?

Some experts suspect the CIA might have used the Hellfire R9X — a highly secretive missile sometimes called the "knife bomb", the "ninja bomb" or the "flying Ginsu" — to kill Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

ABC News

Taliban say they are investigating US 'claim' of killing al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri

The Taliban says it was unaware Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was living in Afghanistan's capital city.

ABC News

Taliban investigating US ‘claim’ of killing al-Qaeda chief

Taliban representative to UN says the Afghan government and group’s leadership is ‘not aware’ of what is being claimed.

Al Jazeera

Taliban Claim They Unaware of Qaeda Leader in Afghanistan

The Taliban broke its silence Thursday, days after a US drone strike killing al-Qaeda’s top leader in Afghanistan’s capital, acknowledging his slaying and pledging to launch an investigation. The killing of Ayman al-Zawahri on the balcony of a Kabul safehouse Sunday has further strained relations between the Taliban and the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Bobby Ghosh: Al-Zawahri killing gives Afghanistan an opening with US

The U.S. drone strike that killed Ayman al-Zawahri in Kabul on Sunday caught the Taliban leadership both red-handed and flat-footed. Their promises to prevent the country from once again becoming a terrorist haven have been exposed as lies: The al-Qaida leader was living in the Afghan capital, reportedly in a…

Tribune News Service

Hey, that’s my house: US aid worker realises Zawahiri villa is his old home

The Kabul property hit by a US drone was familiar. It turned out Dan Smock had something in common with al-Qaida’s leader

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Reuters

Taliban says was not aware al Qaeda leader in Kabul, warns U.S.

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The Guardian - AU

‘We’re all responsible for Afghanistan’: confronting exhibition spotlights Australia’s 20-year war

An artist’s blood and the Brereton report feature in a month-long Sydney show and symposium that aims to platform victims of a war whose legacy lives on

WEKU

Biden's national security adviser doubles down on Taiwan policy after Pelosi visit

Jake Sullivan, the president's national security adviser, discusses the war in Ukraine, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan and the U.S. drone strike that took out al-Qaida's leader.

ABC News

Al Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in an upscale Kabul neighbourhood. Now other terror leaders are fleeing

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been killed via a drone strike on the balcony of his four-storey safehouse. Now terrorist leaders are fleeing Kabul while the world takes stock of what this means for the future of Afghanistan.

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The Hindu

Teaching the Taliban the wrong lessons

The world appears to have highlighted that short-sighted tactics, and not strategic vision, will decide the future

The Guardian - UK

‘Tricky situation’: Taliban unsure how to respond to Zawahiri’s death

Senior commanders caught between hopes for international recognition and pressure from their own ranks

WEKU

Does the killing of al-Zawahiri make Americans safer? It's complicated

The State Department warns of potential anti-American violence following the U.S. killing of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Experts say his loss hurts the group, but doesn't erase the threat.

The Hindu

India evacuates 30 Afghan Sikhs from Kabul

The evacuees were taken to Gurdwara Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji in New Delhi

The Conversation

Afghanistan: assassination of al-Qaida chief reveals tensions at the top of the Taliban

The killing of the al-Qaida leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Kabul by a US drone strike on July 31 raises some crucial questions. It appears the ruling Taliban were aware of, and gave their blessing to, al-Zawahiri staying in one of the residential areas in Kabul. But did someone in their…

Daily Mirror

'Ninja' Hellfire missiles 'like a bladed anvil' chopped up doomed Al-Qaeda leader

The US Hellfire missiles, which use blades instead of explosive warheads, used in the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri were tested and perfected in counter-terrorism operations in Syria

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ties Between Al-Qaeda and the Taliban... Will ISIS benefit from the Rupture?

After having killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri with a drone that hit the home he had been hiding in Kabul, the United States has, to a large extent, finished avenging the 9/11 attacks. The perpetrators were killed in bloody attacks, and Osama bin Laden was then killed by Navy…

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