It has been
reported that two Americans were killed in Donald Trump's first anti-terror
raid on foreign soil. This includes an eight-year-old girl whose father was an
al-Qaeda leader, and a Navy SEAL Team Six member involved in the mission. Nawar
al-Awlaki, also known as Nora, was among the non-combatants killed - along with
several women - in Sunday's military operation at an Al-Qaeda camp in Yemen.
The little
girl was the daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, a dual US-Yemeni citizen who was the
first American to die in a US drone strike.
The other
American citizen killed in the raid was Chief Petty Officer William 'Ryan'
Owens, 36, who died during a gun battle.
The fate of
Nawar's mother is not known, but one of her uncles was also killed, NBC News
reports.
Her
16-year-old brother, Abdulrahman, also a US citizen, was killed in a drone
strike in Yemen two weeks after their father died in 2011.
After
Sunday's raid by the top secret Joint Special Operations Command, US officials
said it was estimated that 14 al-Qaeda militants were killed.
Yemenis
claimed that as many as 59 combatants and civilians, including women, were
killed.
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