{"id":50949,"date":"2022-08-01T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50949"},"modified":"2022-08-01T16:51:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T23:51:39","slug":"us-strike-kills-al-qaeda-leader-ayman-al-zawahiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50949","title":{"rendered":"US strike kills Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ayman al-Zawahri was al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden\u2019s right-hand man and helped plan the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, then succeeded him after the latter\u2019s death in a U.S. raid in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The United States conducted a drone strike that killed Al Qaeda leader\u00a0Ayman al-Zawahiri\u00a0in Afghanistan over the weekend, a source familiar with the operation confirmed to The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President\u00a0Biden\u00a0is expected to speak about the operation in an address Monday evening. The White House said the president would deliver remarks on a \u201csuccessful counterterrorism operation\u201d from the balcony of the Blue Room at the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayman al-Zawahri was al-Qaida leader Osama&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50952,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50949\/revisions\/50952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}