Al-Ghamdi was placed on the U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice list on October 14, 2014.[14] He was quietly removed from the list in January 2016.[15] In February 2015, it had been reported that al-Ghamdi was killed in a drone strike in Yemen.[16] In March 2016, the State Department confirmed to The Bureau of Investigative Journalism that al-Ghamdi no longer "posed a threat to U.S. persons or interests."[17] AQAP confirmed al-Ghamdi's death in September 2018.[18]