In a statement released by the White House, Trump said the operation took place in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.
More than a month after American media reports claimed that Hamza bin Laden, the son and heir of slain Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, was killed in a US counterterrorism operation, President Donald Trump confirmed the same in a statement on Saturday.
In a statement released by the White House, Trump said the operation took place in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.
"The loss of Hamza bin Ladin not only deprives al-Qa’ida of important leadership skills and the symbolic connection to his father, but undermines important operational activities of the group," the statement said.
The statement, however, did not say when the operation took place.
This comes over a month after media reports claimed, citing intelligence obtained by the United States, that Hamza was killed.
It was first reported by US-based NBC News on July 31 which said that three US officials confirmed that Washington had gathered intelligence regarding the potential heir to Osama bin Laden.
When asked to comment, Trump had then refused to say anything. "I don't want to comment on that," he said when asked by reporters to confirm Hamza's death.
The location of Hamza, sometimes dubbed the "crown prince of jihad," had been the subject of speculation for years with reports of him living in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria or even in Iran under house arrest.
Hamza, believed to be 30-year-old, had assumed a senior position within Al-Qaida in 2018 and was aiming to avenge the death of his father, reports said last year.
Osama, the brain behind 9/11 terror attacks in the US, was shot dead during a covert US military raid in Pakistan's Abbottabad in May 2011.
Hamza was the son of one of Osama's three surviving wives, Khairiah Sabar, who was living with her husband in the Abbottabad compound in when he was killed.
Western intelligence agencies saw Hamza as a threat as he started appearing on their radar as a key figure in the post-Osama Al-Qaida hierarchy. Over the last two or three years, Hamza was seen by US and allies' intelligence agencies as someone who was more likely than anyone else to galvanise followers.
Hamza bin Laden's last known public statement was released by the terror group's media arm last year in which he threatened Saudi Arabia and called on the people of the Arabian peninsula to revolt.
Seeing him as an emerging face of extremism, the US in May this year offered a US $1 million reward for information on Hamza.
"Hamza bin Laden is the son of deceased former AQ leader Osama bin Laden and is emerging as a leader in the AQ franchise," a State Department statement had said, referring to Al-Qaeda adding that it would offer US $1 million for information leading to his location in any country.
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