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New Al-Qaida leader commanding from Iran

A detail from the FBI poster offering a reward for information leading to the capture or conviction of Saif al-Adel. [FBI]

More than six months after the United States killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in an airstrike in Kabul, Afghanistan, the terror group's leadership appears to have quietly passed to his heir apparent in Iran.

A new report from the United Nations, based on member state intelligence, concludes Saif al-Adel "is now the de facto leader of al-Qaida, representing continuity for now."

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