U.S. Forces Kill Al-Qaeda Leader In Yemen

The United States President, Donald Trump has said that the U.S. forces has killed the leader of the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula jihadist group, Qassim al-Rimi in Yemen.

Trump disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.

According to him, he ordered the U.S. forces to kill al-Rimi in an operation.

“At the direction of President Trump, the U.S. conducted a counterterrorism operation in Yemen that successfully eliminated Qasim al-Rimi, a founder and the leader of al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula and a deputy to al-Qa’ida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri,” the White house statement said.

Daily mail reports that his group has long been considered the global network’s most dangerous branch for its attempts to carry out attacks on the U.S. mainland, claiming responsibility for last year’s deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola, where a Saudi aviation trainee killed three American sailors. 

Trump also said that the U.S. and its allies are safer as a result of al-Rimi’s death, a trainee of Osama bin Laden.

Bin Laden, masterminded the September 11 attacks which led to the killing of nearly 3,000 people, prompting the United States to carry out a war in parts of the Middle East.

The U.S under the Trump administration had led series of attacks against individuals it claimed played a role in terrorism around the world; Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general was also killed by an American air raid leading to reprisal attacks from Iran.

“Three years ago, the barbarians of ISIS held over 20,000 square miles of territory in Iraq and Syria. Today, the ISIS territorial caliphate has been 100 percent destroyed, and the founder and leader of ISIS — the bloodthirsty killer Al‑Baghdadi — is dead,” Trump said at the 2020 state of the union address.