Al Qaeda chief Ayman Al Zawahiri was killed in a US air strike in Afghanistan, the biggest blow to the terrorist group since its founder Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011.

Zawahiri succeeded Osama bin Laden after he was killed in an operation led by Us forces in Pakistan’s Abbottabad in May 2011.

With this killing, Al Qaeda which was running under the leadership of Zawahiri since the killing of Osama Bin Laden in 2011 faces an acute succession crisis. After the death of Zawahri, the biggest question arises who will lead the terrorist organization?

Saif al-Adel, Abd al-Rahman al-Maghribi, Yasin al-Suri and Abu Abdul Karim al-Khurasani are in line to become the new Al-Qaeda chief

Saif al-Adel will be the next to take charge as new Al-Qaeda chief, the Middle East Institute (MEI) reported.

Several reports also suggested that he might be the first and foremost choice to become Zawahri’s successor due to his long history in Al-Qaeda’s inner and senior circle.

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Adel, an Egyptian ex-army officer and founding member of Al Qaeda, is still in United States’ radar for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. He was the one who convinced Laden to appoint bully Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

He had joined the precursor terror group Maktab al-Khidmat in the 1980s.

In recent times, he has been highly active in Iran and keeps issuing directives through Telegrams to terrorist groups in Syria. If he takes al-Zawahiri’s place, he will have to move out of Iran.

The US President Joe Biden announced the Al Qaeda chief’s killing on Monday in a televised address. An air strike neutralised Zawahiri, who was the mastermind of the deadly 9/11 attacks that paralysed the US, Biden said in his address and added that justice has been delivered.The US President Joe Biden announced the Al Qaeda chief’s killing on Monday in a televised address. An air strike neutralised Zawahiri, who was the mastermind of the deadly 9/11 attacks that paralysed the US, Biden said in his address and added that justice has been delivered.

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