“The injuries to his lungs were not survivable,” Jones said. “That’s what killed him.” The bombs also ruptured Zarqawi’s eardrums and fractured his right leg. There were multiple ...

June 8, 2006 — -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda's leader in Iraq who led a bloody insurgency of suicide bombings and kidnappings, was killed in an airstrike Wednesday, north of Baghdad.

which killed 143 worshippers. But though bin Laden and Zarqawi differ on strategy, Zarqawi too cloaks his plans for mass murder in the language of the religious zealot. To Zarqawi, "religion is ...

June 11, 2006 • Military authorities are investigating the precise circumstances of the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian al-Qaida figure killed Thursday in Iraq. There are reports ...

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An Iraqi man who was one of the first people on the scene of the U.S. airstrike targeting Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said he saw American troops beating a man who had a beard like the al Qaeda leader.

Al-Zarqawi, whose real name is Ahmed Fadheel Nazzal al-Khalayleh, has claimed responsibility for the Nov. 9 suicide attacks in the Jordanian capital that killed 60 people, mostly Muslims.

The video, aired on the Qatari-based TV channel Al-Jazeera, was the first acknowledgment by Al Qaeda's central leadership of the death of Zarqawi, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike northeast of ...

BAGHDAD, Sept. 26 -- A key member of a terrorist network led by Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab Zarqawi was among 19 people killed in U.S. airstrikes Saturday in the insurgent-held city of ...

Zarqawi led a ruthless three-year campaign of coordinated attacks against Iraqi and U.S. targets. He called his group Al Qaeda in Iraq. A targeted U.S. airstrike killed Zarqawi in 2006.