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Over the weekend, US special forces conducted a successful counter-terrorism operation against the Al-Qaeda militant organization (banned in the Russian Federation) in Afghanistan, there were no civilian casualties. This, according to the press pool of the American president, was announced on Monday by a high-ranking White House official.
“Over the weekend, the United States conducted a counterterrorism operation in Afghanistan against an important target associated with Al-Qaeda. The operation was successful, there were no civilian casualties,” a senior representative of the US presidential administration said. According to the press service of the White House, American leader Joe Biden intends to make an appeal regarding the conduct of this special operation.
Fox News channel, citing two intelligence sources, reports that during the operation, the leader of Al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed with the help of a CIA drone.