Her father, Anwar al-Awlaki, was alleged to be an operational leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Anwar al-Awlaki was killed by a CIA drone strike on September 30, 2011.[10] Two weeks after Anwar's death, Nawar's half-brother, Abdulrahman, was killed in a 2011 U.S. drone strike.[11][12][13][14]