On Wednesday US media reported that- Osama bin Laden's son Hamza, chosen scion to the authority of Al-Qaeda, has been killed. According to the news, three US officials had assured that they had information of Hamza bin Laden's death but did not give any details of the place and date. 

The New York Times consequently cited two US officials saying they had confirmation that he was killed during the last two years in an operation that involved the United States. Interviewed by reporters in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump did not give any confirmation or rejection.

Trump said; "He don't want to comment on this topic,".

Reports suggested that bin Laden may have been killed well before the US State Department declared a $1 million bounty on his head in February 2019.

The 15th of Osama bin Laden's 20 children and the son of his third wife, Hamza, deemed to be around 30 years old, was "emerging as a guide in the Al-Qaeda privilege," while announcing the reward the State Department said.

Sometimes entitled the "crown prince of jihad, he had put out the audio and video messages calling for attacks on the United States and other countries, particularly to requite his father's killing by US forces in Pakistan on May 2011, the department said.

Documents captured in the raid on his father's house in Abbottabad recommended that  Hamza was being groomed as the heir to the Al-Qaeda leadership. US forces also found a video of the wedding of Hamza to the daughter of another senior Al-Qaeda official that is believed to have taken place in Iran.

Hamza bin Laden's spots have never been pinpointed. He was believed to have been under house arrest in Iran but reports suggest he also may have stayed in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Syria.

The group behind the deadly September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, Al-Qaeda's fame as a radical Islamist group has withered over the past decade in the shadow of the Islamic State group.

But the propagation of branches and associated jihadist groups in Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and elsewhere have underscored its continuing potency.

At his father's side in Afghanistan before the 9/11 attacks, Hamza learned how to handle weapons, and raged in his thin voice against Americans, Jews and "Crusaders" in videos uploaded online.

In 2016 Al-Qaeda issued a video message in which he urged Islamic State and other jihadists in Syria to unite, alleging that the fight in the war-torn country covers the way to "liberating Palestine."

"There is no longer an excuse for those who ask on division and disputes now that the whole world has mobilized against Muslims," he said.

In a later message that year he called on Saudi youth to overthrow the kingdom's rulers, telling them to enlist in the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to gain battlefield experience.

In 2017 he was placed on the US terrorist blacklist, seen as a potential future figurehead for the group then led by Osama bin Laden's former deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri.