A US official announced, according to what is quoted by Agence France-Presse, that “the United States has carried out a successful operation against an important al-Qaeda target in Afghanistan.”

In this context, a US official told the agency that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a US raid in Afghanistan.

In addition, the White House confirmed that “U.S. President Joe Biden will give a speech tonight on a successful counterterrorism operation.”

Two US officials told Reuters that the CIA carried out a drone strike in Afghanistan over the weekend.

Notably, earlier in the day, a spokesman for the Afghan government, which has been shaped by the Taliban since they came to power in the country after the withdrawal of US troops, stated that “US forces shelled a house in the diplomatic district in the center of Kabul from drone,” noting that “We: condemn the US attack and consider it a clear violation of the sovereignty of the country.”