Nasir Abdel Karim al-Wuhayshi  alias Abu Basir,was a citizen of Yemen and the leader of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Both Saudi Arabia and Yemen consider al-Wuhayshi to be among their most wanted fugitives.

In October 2014, the US State Department increased the reward for any information leading to the capture or killing of al-Wuhayshi to US$10 million, the same as ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Wuhayshi was killed in a USdrone strike in the Hadhramaut Governorate of Yemen on 12 June 2015