Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on Monday confirmed the death of its US-born spiritual leader, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in Yemen in September, DPA reported.
The terrorist group issued the statement to various loyalist websites, which was published by the SITE Intelligence Group.
It said he was killed in a bombing by a US plane, with three others, including Samir Khan.
Khan is a US militant of Pakistani descent, who produced Inspire magazine, which spread the terrorist network's ideology and promoted attacks against US targets.
On September 30, the Yemeni Defence Ministry said al-Awlaki, a radical Islamist cleric seen as a spiritual leader of al-Qaeda, was killed in an airstrike.
US President Barack Obama said the attack was a "major blow" to the terrorist network's most active operational affiliate.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was formed in January 2009 through a merger between the Yemen and Saudi Arabia offshoots of the network.