Al-Zawahiri's demise: US points worldwide alert for residents travelling overseas | World News

The USA on Tuesday cautioned its residents to keep up a “excessive stage of vigilance” whereas travelling overseas within the wake of a counter-terrorism operation that eradicated Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri. In a worldwide alert, the US state division expressed concern over continued risk of terrorist assaults and “different violent actions” in opposition to its residents and pursuits abroad.

The division acknowledged that the assaults might make use of a “vast number of techniques together with suicide operations, assassinations, kidnappings, hijackings, and bombings.”

“As terrorist assaults, political violence (together with demonstrations), felony actions, and different safety incidents typically happen with none warning, U.S. residents are strongly inspired to keep up a excessive stage of vigilance and observe good situational consciousness when touring overseas,” the state division alert stated.

“U.S. residents overseas are urged to watch the native information and preserve contact with the closest U.S. Embassy or Consulate,” it added.

On July 31, the US performed a precision strike in Kabul that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy and successor as chief of al-Qaeda. One of many masterminds of the 9/11 assaults in opposition to the US in 2001, the Al-Qaeda chief, in line with the US state division, had continued to induce his followers to assault America.

The Taliban confirmed the killing of Zawahiri however condemned the drone strike in Kabul over the weekend. Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid stated that a strike passed off on a residence, calling it a violation of "worldwide ideas." However US officers claimed that al-Zawahiri was the one particular person killed within the strike and that none of his members of the family was injured.

US secretary of state Antony Blinken stated that the Taliban had grossly violated the Doha Settlement by internet hosting and sheltering the Al-Qaeda chief.

"By internet hosting and sheltering the chief of al Qa'ida in Kabul, the Taliban grossly violated the Doha Settlement and repeated assurances to the world that they might not enable Afghan territory for use by terrorists to threaten the safety of different international locations," Blinken stated in an announcement.