Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri was an Egyptian-born physician and theologian who was the leader of the terrorist group al-Qaeda from June 2011 until his death in July 2022.
He succeeded Osama bin Laden following his death and was earlier a senior member of Islamist organizations which led attacks in Asia, Africa, North America, and Europe. In 2012, he called on Muslims to kidnap Westerners in Muslim countries.
Ayman al-Zawahiri was born on June 19, 1951, in Giza, Egypt.
Azza Ahmed’s cause of death: What happened to Ayman al-Zawahiri’s wife?
Ayam al-Zawahiri married his first wife, Azza Ahmed Nowari in 1978. She was a student at Cairo University studying philosophy.
Azza had no idea that al-Zawahiri had supposedly been a jihadi emir (commander) for the last decade
After an American aerial bombardment of a Taliban-controlled building at Gardez, Azza was pinned under the debris of a guesthouse roof. Concerned for her modesty, she “refused to be excavated” because “men would see her face” and she died from her injuries the following day.
