The CIA conducted an unmanned aerial vehicle strike the morning of July 31 in downtown Kabul that killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, AP reported Aug. 1. A senior Biden administration official claimed that "multiple streams of intelligence" bolster U.S. confidence that the strike did not result in civilian casualties. Al-Zawahiri was reportedly staying in a house located in the upscale Sherpur neighborhood of Kabul owned by a top aide to Taliban senior leader and acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani. It is unclear how long al-Zawahiri had been in Afghanistan, though a reputedly "senior leader" within the Taliban reportedly told Reuters that al-Zawahiri had "moved to 'a very safe place' in Kabul a few months'' after the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021. The same senior Biden administration official stated that al-Zawahiri's presence was a "clear violation" of the 2020 U.S.