Ibrahim al-Banna

Ibrahim al-Banna was reportedly killed by gunmen from the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement in Syria on February 15, 2018, which was later proven to be false.

Ibrahim Muhammad Salih al-Banna (Arabic: إبراهيم محمد صالح البنا; born 1965), known as Ibrahim al-Banna (Arabic: إبراهيم البنا) (nom de guerre Abu Ayman al-Masri) is a citizen of Egypt who security officials suspect is a leader in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Security officials have repeatedly claimed to have killed him with missiles launched from unmanned aerial vehicles. An October 2011 claim had al-Banna killed, along with six other individuals, including some who were alleged to have been associated with AQAP and at least one (Anwar al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son and American citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki) who was not. Ibrahim al-Banna was added to the U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice wanted list on October 14, 2014.

According to the Jamestown Foundation, Yemeni security officials apprehended al-Banna in August 2010 and a Yemeni newspaper published transcripts of his interrogation in November 2010. The Jamestown Foundation published a profile of al-Banna based on those transcripts. The profile claimed that his full name was "Shaykh Ibrahim Muhammad Salih al-Banna" and his kunya was Abu Ayman al-Masri. They asserted that during his confession he acknowledged he was a member of Vanguards of Conquest, a branch of Egyptian Islamic Jihad as early as 1993, when members of the group went underground after it was suspected of being behind an attempt to assassinate Egyptian Prime Minister Atif Sidqi. Ibrahim al-Banna had escaped to Yemen where he was a member of a group led by brothers Ayman al-Zawahiri and Muhammad al-Zawahiri.