Foreign Policy Essay
Did al-Qaeda Die With Ayman al-Zawahiri?
Four months after Zawahiri was reportedly killed in a drone strike in Kabul, the terrorist organization still has not announced a successor.
Raffaello Pantucci is a senior fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore and a senior associate fellow at Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London. He is the author of “We Love Death as You Love Life: Britain’s Suburban Terrorists” (Hurst, 2015; Oxford University Press, 2015) and “Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire” (with Alexandros Petersen; Oxford University Press, 2022).
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Four months after Zawahiri was reportedly killed in a drone strike in Kabul, the terrorist organization still has not announced a successor.
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