| Aug. 5, 2009 |
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A U.S. strike kills Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mahsud in South Waziristan, a volatile tribal area of Pakistan along the Afghan border that the Taliban has used as a base for years. |
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| March 8, 2010 |
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Hussein Yemeni, an Al Qaeda bomb expert and trainer, is killed in Pakistan by a U.S. drone strike. |
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| May 10, 2010 |
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A U.S. drone attack kills Sheik Said Masri, Al Qaeda’s No. 3 leader, in Pakistan. |
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| Sept. 25, 2010 |
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An airstrike in eastern Afghanistan kills Abdallah Umar Qurayshi, who had led Al Qaeda-affiliated Arab fighters operating in two eastern provinces, and Abu Atta Kuwaiti, an explosives expert. |
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| May 2, 2011 |
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Osama bin Laden, leader of Al Qaeda, is killed during a Navy SEALs raid at a compound inside Pakistan. |
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| June 3, 2011 |
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Ilyas Kashmiri, described by U.S. officials as a key Al Qaeda planner and trainer, is killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan. |
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| Aug. 22, 2011 |
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Al Qaeda's second in command, Atiyah Abdul Rahman, is killed in a drone attack in Pakistan. |
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| Sept. 30, 2011 |
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Amerian-born Muslim cleric, Anwar Awlaki, accused of inspiring and plotting terrorist attacks on Americans, is killed by a missile fired from a drone aircraft operated by the CIA. |
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| Oct. 14, 2011 |
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Abdul-Rahman Awlaki, the son of Anwar Awlaki, and Ibrahim Banna, whom officials described as the media chief of the Al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen, are killed by a U.S. military drone strike. |
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| May 29, 2012 |
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U.S.-led coalition troops say they've killed Sakhr al-Taifi, Al Qaeda's second-in-command in Afghanistan, in an airstrike in the country's eastern province of Kunar. Sakhr al-Taifi, a Saudi national, and one other unnamed Al Qaeda militant were killed in the airstrike, NATO says. |
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| June 4, 2012 |
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Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, Abu Yahya al-Libi, is killed in a U.S. drone missile strike on Hesokhel, a small village in North Waziristan near the Afghan border. North Waziristan has long been a stronghold for Al Qaeda, the Taliban, the Haqqani network and other militant groups. Al-Libi's death was confirmed by a U.S. official on Tuesday, June 5.
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 IntelCenter / Associated Press A 2007 image purportedly shows Al Qaeda militant Abu Yahya al-Libi, who was targeted in a U.S. drone missile strike. |
| Jan. 3, 2013 |
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A U.S. drone strike in northwest Pakistan kills a top Taliban commander responsible for engineering attacks on U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. The death of Pakistani Taliban commander Maulvi Nazir deals a significant blow to insurgent ranks that use Pakistan's rugged tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan as sanctuary from which to launch assaults on Western troops battling Afghan Taliban fighters. |
 Ishtiaq Mahsud / Associated Press Maulvi Nazir meets with associates in South Waziristan in April 2007. |
