Earlier in the week, the Taliban administration said it did not have any information about al-Zawahiri's arrival and stay in Kabul.
"We did not find any body in the place that was hit by the US drone," Mujahid told reporters.
The Wall Street Journal previously reported, citing a senior US administration official, that al-Zawahiri had been living in central Kabul in recent months near the premises of acting Afghan Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani. According to the source, al-Zawahiri moved to Kabul in the fall of 2021, and lived under the protection of Haqqani.
The White House confirmed that the US carried out a counter-terrorism operation in Kabul on July 30, as a result of which al-Zawahiri, who ruled the terror group after the death of Osama bin Laden, was neutralized by two Hellfire missiles fired from a drone.
*Al-Qaeda is a terrorist organization banned in Russia.