In 2008, Israel killed Hezbollah’s military leader, Imad Mughniyeh, in Damascus, Syria, yet the group only gathered strength in the years that followed.
Four years earlier, Israel killed a founder of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, in an airstrike.
The US has its own history of killing terrorist leaders in the hope that it will cripple its foes.
ISIS also carried out devastating terrorist attacks in the West, for instance, in Paris in 2015 that killed 130 people.
The UN estimates there are about four hundred members of al Qaeda living in Afghanistan today.
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