article_snippet.sent: In an audio message released Sunday, Al Qaeda confirmed that two of Al Qaeda leaders, known as Ustad Ahmad Farooq and Qari Abdullah Mansur, were killed in CIA drone strikes in January in North Waziristan, near the Afghan-Pakistan border.
article_snippet.sent: The deaths of the two men continue the decimation of Al Qaeda bench of leaders.
article_snippet.sent: The deaths of the two men underline the fact that there are almost no top leaders of Al Qaeda left except al-Zawahiri.
article_snippet.sent: Al Qaeda confirmation of the deaths of Ubaidullah and Suleman is just one of the latest pieces of evidence for this assessment.
highlights_snippet.sent: Al Qaeda confirms that two of Al Qaeda leaders were killed in January drone strikes .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Other leaders have been killed or captured recently .
  