{"id":46996,"date":"2022-08-02T21:29:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/who-was-ayman-al-zawahiri-and-what-does-his-death-mean-for-al-qaida"},"modified":"2022-08-02T21:29:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:29:19","slug":"qa-the-death-of-ayman-al-zawahiri-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46996","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of global militant group was killed in US drone strike in Afghanistan on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>The leader of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/us-strike-afghanistan-kills-al-qaida-leader-ayman-al-zawahiri\">was killed in a US drone strike<\/a> in Afghanistan on Sunday. The US president, Joe Biden, announced the death on Monday evening in an address to the nation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/who-was-ayman-al-zawahiri-and-what-does-his-death-mean-for-al-qaida\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of global militant group was killed in US drone strike in Afghanistan on SundayThe leader of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan on Sunday. The US president, Joe Biden, announced the death on Monday evenin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1486,"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":[46,487,2333,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-al-qaida","category-ayman-al-zawahiri","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46996","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\/1486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46997,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46996\/revisions\/46997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}