Younis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari (Arabic: يونس محمد ابراهيم الحياري, 1969 – 3 July 2005) was a Moroccan Al-Qaeda member.

The following month, on 3 July 2005, he was reported killed in a shootout involving Saudi Arabian security forces in Riyadh.

[2][3][4] At the time of his death, he was reportedly the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

[citation needed] According to Saudi officials, al-Hayari had travelled to Saudi Arabia for Hajj in 2001 and subsequently went underground.

He was accused of participating in various attacks in the country, in collaboration with fellow Moroccan militant Karim el-Mejjati, with the latter having been killed a few weeks earlier in a raid that took place at Al-Rass.