The senior Al-Qaeda leader, whose nom de guerre was Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was killed along with his daughter, Miriam, the widow of Osama bin Laden's son Hamza, the Times reported Friday, citing intelligence sources. The attack took place on August 7 on the anniversary of the Africa bombings, according to the paper. Washington accused Shiite Iran of harbouring Al-Qaeda members and allowing them to pass through its territory in 2016, an accusation denied by Tehran officials at the time. He accused President Donald Trump's administration of pursuing an "Iranophobic" agenda as part of its "all-out economic, intelligence and psychological" war against Tehran. "The media should not be a loudspeaker for the publication of the White House's purposeful lies against Iran," he said.
