Ayman al-Zawahiri’s killing shows US ability to carry out precision strikes in Afghanistan: US paper

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 - 04:07 GMT

Charles Lister, a terrorism expert at the Washington-based Middle East Institute, said al-Qaeda “now faces an acute succession crisis.” Senior leader Saif al-Adel is technically the next in line to take the helm, but he is based in Iran, which has caused affiliates to question his credibility in the past, Lister wrote Monday.