Ayman al-Zawahiri's death raises questions on whether he was being sheltered by Taliban, national security adviser suggests
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Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was living in downtown Kabul with members of his immediate family when he was tracked down and killed by a U.S. drone strike in a counterterrorism operation over the weekend.
According to President Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan, the White House is communicating with the Taliban about their knowledge of al-Zawahiri's location and looking into whether they were sheltering him in Afghanistan.
"We do believe that senior members of the Haqqani network, which is associated with the Taliban, knew that Zawahiri was in Kabul," Sullivan told "CBS Mornings." "There may have been other members who didn't. And we are communicating directly with the Taliban about their obligations not to allow al Qaeda to use Afghanistan as a base for plotting."
