Gunshots heard in Afghan capital Kabul, casualties feared

STORY: Gunshots heard in Afghan capital Kabul, casualties feared DATELINE: Aug. 3, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:14 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the gunshot site and streets views in Kabul STORYLINE: Gunshots were heard in the Karta-e-Sakhi locality on the western edge of Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul on Wednesday, local television channel Tolonews reported. Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said on social media that after the gunshots, security forces surrounded a suspected house in Karta-e-Sakhi area of Police District 3 and the cleanup operation has continued. On Monday, Western media reported that U.S. President Joe Biden ordered a drone strike on the suspected residence of the al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, killing him on the spot. The Taliban administration has confirmed the drone attack but didn't say if there was any victim or who was killed in the incident. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kabul. (XHTV)

Biden says U.S. killed al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri in drone strike

STORY: Biden says U.S. killed al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahiri in drone strike DATELINE: Aug. 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:23 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Biden addressing the nation 2. various of the White House STORYLINE: U.S. President Joe Biden announced Monday evening that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed in a drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. "I authorized a precision strike that would remove him from the battlefield," Biden said in live remarks from the Blue Room Balcony at the White House, "There were no civilian casualties." Al-Zawahiri became head of al-Qaeda in 2011 after its longtime leader, Osama bin Laden, was shot and killed by U.S. forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan during a raid. Biden's announcement came nearly a year after the U.S. military completed a withdrawal from Afghanistan that it invaded in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks carried out by al-Qaeda operatives against targets on American soil, which killed nearly 3,000 peop