Asim Umar

India-born Asim Umar, the chief of the Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), has been killed during a joint US-Afghan raid on a Taliban hideout in Afghanistan's Helmand province, Afghan officials said on Tuesday.

The leader of Al-Qaeda's South Asian branch was killed in a US-Afghan joint raid in southern Afghanistan last month, Afghan officials confirmed Tuesday.

The US today designated Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), a regional branch of the global terror network, as a "foreign terrorist organisation" and added its chief Asim Umar on the list of global terrorist.

The leader of al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) claimed responsibility for the murder of a US citizen hacked to death in Bangladesh in February and the deaths of other "blasphemers" in the region, SITE Intelligence Group reported on Sunday.

Pakistan-based Asim Umar, a top Al Qaeda operative, has been named to lead the Qaedat-al-Jihad, the new terror unit that Al Qaeda chief Ayman-al-Zawahiri has announced will operate in the Indian sub-continent.

India-born Asim Umar, the chief of the Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), has been killed during a joint US-Afghan raid on a Taliban hideout in Afghanistan's Helmand province, Afghan officials said on Tuesday.

The leader of Al-Qaeda's South Asian branch was killed in a US-Afghan joint raid in southern Afghanistan last month, Afghan officials confirmed Tuesday.

The US today designated Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), a regional branch of the global terror network, as a "foreign terrorist organisation" and added its chief Asim Umar on the list of global terrorist.

The leader of al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) claimed responsibility for the murder of a US citizen hacked to death in Bangladesh in February and the deaths of other "blasphemers" in the region, SITE Intelligence Group reported on Sunday.

Pakistan-based Asim Umar, a top Al Qaeda operative, has been named to lead the Qaedat-al-Jihad, the new terror unit that Al Qaeda chief Ayman-al-Zawahiri has announced will operate in the Indian sub-continent.