Jolt to Qaeda leadership succession: Only Saif al-Adel from old guard remains to lead

The peculiar timing of the reports on the ‘natural death’ of al-Qaeda’s ageing leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and the confirmed brazen daylight murders of his likely successor and No. 2 Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah and his daughter...

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