Reuters news agency has written that the death of one of the main leaders of Al-Qaeda in Yemen named “Khalid Ba Tarbi” has been confirmed.
Sources related to al-Qaeda have said that after Baltarabi’s death, a person named “Saad bin Atif al-Awlaqi will be the new leader of al-Qaeda.”
In the video released by Al Qaeda in the Peninsula, or Al Qaeda in Yemen, the body is covered with a flag with the name and emblem of Al Qaeda on one side.
Khalid Batrafi was introduced as the leader of Al-Qaeda in Yemen in early 2020 after Qassem al-Rimi was killed in Yemen.
On the other hand, he was also one of the prisoners who escaped and was released from prison in 2015 along with 150 other members of Al-Qaeda in Yemen following the attack of this group on the port city of Makla.
Details about the time and cause of Khalid’s death with the party who was in his forties have not yet been published; But it seems that he died a natural death, although the manner of his death inThere is an aura of ambiguity.
