{"id":47126,"date":"2022-08-05T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/05\/al-qaida-chiefs-killing-comes-as-group-gains-ground-in-african-conflict-zones"},"modified":"2022-08-05T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T05:00:36","slug":"al-qaida-chiefs-killing-comes-as-group-gains-ground-in-african-conflict-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47126","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaida chief\u2019s killing comes as group gains ground in African conflict zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN says terror organisation, whose affiliate recently attacked Mali\u2019s most important military base, \u2018is once again the leader of global jihad\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It was one of Ayman al-Zawahiri\u2019s last victories. Just over a week before the al-Qaida leader was killed in Kabul by missiles fired from a US drone, militants from the organisation\u2019s biggest affiliate in sub-Saharan Africa attacked the most important military base in Mali.<\/p>\n<p>The tactics of the attack were familiar \u2013 suicide bombers blowing a gap in defences to allow gunmen to reached stunned defenders \u2013 but the operation marked a major escalation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/05\/al-qaida-chiefs-killing-comes-as-group-gains-ground-in-african-conflict-zones\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN says terror organisation, whose affiliate recently attacked Mali\u2019s most important military base, \u2018is once again the leader of global jihad\u2019It was one of Ayman al-Zawahiri\u2019s last victories. Just over a week before the al-Qaida leader was killed in Ka&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"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":[46,401,487,1354,471,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-africa","category-al-qaida","category-al-shabaab","category-islamic-state","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\/47126","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\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47127,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47126\/revisions\/47127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}