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READ MORE: Osama bin Laden was killed after CIA spotted his family's clothes drying, book claimsAccording to POLITICO, one of those briefed on the operation said the strike on the Afghan capital of Kabul was led by the CIA, but a spokesperson for the Pentagon said the military has not recently conducted any strikes in the area.The delay in the announcement of Al-Zawahri's death was due to the fact that the American administration wanted to delay releasing the information until it could confirm his death.Senator Ted Cruz, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called the operation “an important accomplishment", adding: “This strike should be a message to terrorists near and far: if you conspire to kill Americans, we will find and kill you.”Egyptian-born Al-Zawahri, succeeded Bin Laden following the latter's death in 2011, in a missions carried out by US Navy Seals in Pakistan.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.The 71-year-old appeared in a video last year commemorating the 20 year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, despite rumours that he died months earlier.According to the FBI's most wanted list, Al-Zawahiri had a £20.4 million bounty over his head.It is not immediately clear who will succeed Al-Zawahiri as the leader of the terrorist group.READ NEXT:

Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 bestselling novel The Kite Runner is the sort of compelling, epic morality tale that spans eras and cultures, depicts friendship and betrayal, loyalty and cowardice, acts of kindness and demonstrations of unspeakable cruelty. With its eye on an all-but-guaranteed redemption, The Kite Runner has an unmistakable allure – equal parts beach read and Serious Literature – that proved irresistible to Hollywood and, now, Broadway.

Line of Duty star Martin Compston got chatting to the Afghan man called Naweed during a journey from the Las Vegas strip to his home nearby.Naweed told him he was desperately trying to get his wife and baby daughter out of Afghanistan after the US pulled troops out of the country last year.READ MORE: Line of Duty star Martin Compston denies singing sectarian songs at Celtic event in US He had worked as an interpreter for the US military and feared his family’s lives would be in danger after the Taliban took back control.Compston, 38, used his contacts to put the family in touch with a US-based lawyer and helped get them to Las Vegas where they have now set up home.He said: “He was from Afghanistan and had been an interpreter for the American army.

Taliban.Anthony Malone, 50, was a security consultant tasked with taking vulnerable families to safety in Kabul.He was working for a self-funded humanitarian mission when in December 2021 he was taken from the streets.READ MORE: 'I walked 5,000 miles to get away from Taliban monsters – and ended up in Birmingham'Despite having the correct documents to prove his work was legitimate, he was held in an underground cell for six months, which he claims was underneath the Afghan intelligence headquarters.He was released just a few weeks ago on June 20, Lincolnshire Live reports.And now the former British Army Paratrooper has told his story.He recalled: “I'd been in Afghanistan for three months at this point. It was surreal.

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A horrific earthquake in Afghanistan has led to the deaths of 280 people with many more wounded.

William Earl Variety and Indeed present a night of cocktails and conversation on June 16 in New York City with this year’s 10 Rising Voices finalists from across the United States.Participants include Jalmer Caceres, “Empty Bases”; Leon Cheo, “The 25th Filial”; Shanrica Evans, “Amina”; Justin Floyd, “Malleable”; Georgia Fu, “Maps”; Gbenga Komolafe, “Tofu”; Cara Lawson, “Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings”; Tara Motamedi, “Before Dawn Kabul Time”; Urvashi Pathania, “Beast” and Travis Wood, “Black Santa.” The conversation will be moderated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis.Established in February 2021 and now in its second season, Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Productions and Indeed partnered on Rising Voices to provide resources to the selected BIPOC filmmakers to create the short film that will have premiered earlier in the day at the Tribeca Festival in New York City. The finalists were selected from 900 applicants based on their submitted screenplays.

Royal Navy, the Army and Royal Air Force will take part in a huge 70-plane flypast for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Dozens of aircraft will complete the Queen’s birthday parade, soaring over Buckingham Palace on Thursday June 2, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.Among them will be the Red Arrows as well as aircraft used by the UK Armed Forces on operations around the world.The flypast will include three times the amount of aircraft than the number used in the Queen’s last birthday parade flypast, in central London in 2019.Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said: “I’m proud that the Armed Forces are leading the nation in celebration with such a spectacular display.“Throughout the Platinum Jubilee celebrations we will all enjoy the expertise, skill and talent of our Armed Forces as we celebrate Her Majesty’s 70 years on the throne.”Helicopters from the Royal Navy, the Army and RAF, which have recently been used to respond to events in Kabul and Ukraine as well as the pandemic, will take part in the display.

Fat Ham, playwright James Ijames’ comedy-drama reinvention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, received the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama today, just days before the acclaimed play is to make its New York debut at the Public Theater Off Broadway.

Taliban will protect him against ISIS has been accused of "getting way too comfy" with the armed group.Miles Routledge, a former physics student at Loughborough University, said he settled on Afghanistan last summer after Googling "most dangerous countries to visit" and picking the top entry.Despite the evacuation, the 22-year-old, who funds his trips with money from his loyal subscribers, went back to the country after crossing from Peshawar, Pakistan.He's now back in the UK, but while posting from Kabul last week, he was accused of becoming too tightly affiliated with the Taliban, who have de facto control of Afghanistan.

Taliban for their hospitality just hours before falling ill from food poisoning.Miles Routledge, a former physics student at Loughborough University, who decided to travel to Afghanistan last summer after Googling "most dangerous countries to visit", was visiting one of the country's top restaurants with funds he gained from his loyal fans.Sharing his experience on Twitter, the 22-year-old boasted about the 'amazing' food he purchased for £20 as he slammed Western media for claiming it's "bad".His initial tweet said: "US is the richest country in the world but many struggle with food. Western media says Afghanistan is bad but everyone shares food if they cannot afford and everything tastes amazing!"All this for $26 at a top restaurant.

Taliban takeover, who is now in Pakistan, has said that he "can't afford any more travel."Miles Routledge, a physics student at Loughborough University, said he settled on Afghanistan last summer after googling ‘most dangerous countries to visit’ and picking the top entry.The 22-year-old is now in Peshawar, Pakistan close to the border with Afghanistan, but his plans to rescue a tour guide there who helped him during the Brit's first visit have fallen through, leaving him crestfallen - and broke. Yesterday (April 25), he said that he was crossing Pakistan's border with Afghanistan in the coming days, and that security forces had blocked his plans to cycle through "ISIS territory."But today, Routledge said he can no longer afford to travel."I don't think you guys understand but I can't afford any more travel," he tweeted.

Taliban and inflicted brutal atrocities including waterboarding and whipping has won the right to stay in the UK.The unnamed 42-year-old successfully argued he would be at risk of being tortured himself if he was sent back to Afghanistan.Officials at the Home Office admitted if they deported him there would be a “real risk” of a breach to his human rights.The brute, who was a child soldier for the extremists in the 1990s, climbed the evil organisation’s ranks after volunteering to fight on the front lines during the bloody Battle of Kabul, reports The Sun.Whilst working as an intelligence commander in control of 300 men he used inhumane torture tactics to force information out of his victims.He claims to have been captured and tortured by a rival group to the Taliban, who call themselves the Northern Alliance.The ordeal left him with “complex mental health problems” before he fled to Britain in 2006.His first attempt to claim asylum was rejected and he was quickly deported before lodging another claim in 2010 which was also rejected.But his third and most recent attempt was successful as he was granted limited leave to remain under the European Convention on Human Rights.It comes following a botched American withdrawal from Afghanistan led to the Taliban quickly re-seizing control of the country.Experts have warned the nation is in danger of once again becoming a breeding ground for terrorism.Head of MI5 Ken McCallum admitted he was concerned about “terrorist infrastructure and networks reconstituting” in the midst of the chaotic transition of power. Stay in the loop with all the latest Daily Star stories by signing up to one of our free newsletters here. He warned of an “immediate morale boost” that the situation

OnlyFans creator and porn star has come a long way since then - and here we take a look at her wild journey. Her unique story began back home in Afghanistan - where she grew up in a strict Muslim family.But after the Taliban conquered Kabul in the 1990s, her whole life changed.Yasmeena was terrified when Taliban fighters paraded the streets of Kabul when she was just a little girl.She witnessed with her own eyes men and women being beaten, while female figures in her life said “there was no such thing as rape” under the Taliban.

Whoopi Goldberg is calling out Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert.

President Joe Biden was heckled during his State of the Union speech by Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia tonight.

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe last time Variety caught up with Sky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay, he was hunkered down in a military compound near the Kabul airport, where thousands of Afghan civilians were awaiting evacuation as the Taliban watched on.Seven months later — after a stint in Brazil’s Amazon and a quick trip home to the U.K. for Christmas in between — he’s coming up on two months in Ukraine.

Hundreds of Afghans running frantically alongside an American military plane at the airport in Kabul. People clung to the plane’s undercarriage as it taxied along the runway and then took off; some fell to their deaths or were crushed under its wheels.The final American withdrawal from Afghanistan began in May 2021, the Afghan forces melted away, and after Kandahar fell to the Taliban on 12 August, people were predicting it would take three months for Kabul to collapse.

The Guardian reports, when a member of the group (labelled as Moshtagh, his actual name redacted for safety) reached out to Wu in hopes of strengthening their international presence. But when the Taliban launched an offensive on Afghanistan in 2021, Moshtagh’s group made the snap decision to flee the nation’s capital of Kabul.Wu told The Guardian that such a decision was “based on complete fear”, noting that Moshtagh and his cohort were driven by an “overwhelming sense of survival” because “they felt so threatened by the Taliban based on their western practices”.She explained that Moshtagh pleaded for Wu to help them out: “He said, ‘I feel like you guys have an obligation to help us,’ and I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said, ‘Well, you know, we’re all just hip-hop family.’ And … the more and more we spoke, the more and more I realised that much of what he was saying was true.”Wu – who runs the LA-based non-profit No Easy Props, which runs hip-hop classes and events for the city’s marginalised communities – said the exchange “awoke [her] thought process”.

Valentine’s Day gifts, The Taliban “destroyed flowers and popped balloons” in the streets of Kabul. Enforcers from Afghanistan’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (MoPVPV) raided flower shops in the capital Kabul, enforcing the hardline Islamic republic’s new rules.

Ex-BBC journalist Andrew North is among a number of foreigners kidnapped by the Taliban in recent months, according to sources.