KABUL: Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) has confirmed Thursday that the two top Al-Qaeda leaders in the country that US drones targeted on Sunday have been killed. It served a major blow to the group seeking to re-establish safe havens in the country.

NDS said that a third senior member of the group had also been killed in the attack “carried out in coordination with NDS.” But it did not name the third leader.

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