OREANDA-NEWS  Ivan Nechaev, deputy director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, has stated that “serious” questions remain when it comes to the Biden administration’s announcement about the US killing al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.He added that “the aggressive actions of the US Air Force, which invaded the sovereign territory of Afghanistan, raise a number of serious questions.”

The statement followed Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the ruling Taliban(a terrorist group banned in Russia and many other countries) movement, telling journalists last week that Afghan authorities did not find the body of al-Zawahiri at the site of the US missile strike in Kabul.Earlier, the Taliban government said that they did not have any information about al-Zawahiri's arrival and stay in Kabul.POTUS also stressed that the success of the counterterrorism operation ensures that Afghanistan will "never again ... become a terrorist safe haven because is gone."He descried the al-Qaeda leader as a person who “carved a trail of murder and violence against American citizens, American service members, American diplomats, and American interests.”The 71-year-old al-Zawahiri took over al-Qaeda after the death of Bin Laden in 2011. The two jointly plotted the 9/11 terrorist attacks that occurred in 2001, claiming the lives of almost 3,000 people.