{"id":46994,"date":"2022-08-02T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/aug\/02\/us-drone-strike-kills-al-qaida-leader-ayman-al-zawahiri-in-kabul-video"},"modified":"2022-08-02T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T13:00:10","slug":"smoke-rises-above-kabul-after-us-strike-that-killed-al-qaidas-ayman-al-zawahiri-video-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46994","title":{"rendered":"Smoke rises above Kabul after US strike that killed al-Qaida\u2019s Ayman al-Zawahiri \u2013 video report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US drone strike in Afghanistan has killed the top al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Joe Biden announced on Monday. The US president described the death of Zawahiri, who was Osama bin Laden\u2019s deputy and successor, as a major blow to the terrorist network behind the September 11 attacks in 2001<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/us-strike-afghanistan-kills-al-qaida-leader-ayman-al-zawahiri\">Ayman al-Zawahiri: al-Qaida leader killed in US drone strike in Afghanistan, Joe Biden says<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/aug\/02\/us-drone-strike-kills-al-qaida-leader-ayman-al-zawahiri-in-kabul-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US drone strike in Afghanistan has killed the top al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Joe Biden announced on Monday. The US president described the death of Zawahiri, who was Osama bin Laden\u2019s deputy and successor, as a major blow to the terrorist net&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,487,2333,2291,473,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-al-qaida","category-ayman-al-zawahiri","category-september-11-2001","category-us-military","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46995,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46994\/revisions\/46995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}