The biggest danger to the United States and the West following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan could well come from the Islamic State terror group’s Afghan affiliate, and not from al-Qaida, despite the latter’s long-standing relationship...
Related topics: Isis, Afghanistan
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - There are no members of al-Qaeda* in Afghanistan, TOLO News said Tuesday, citing Taliban* spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
Related topics: Taliban, Afghanistan, Russia, Moscow
Would the U.S. government deliberately allow an American citizen to languish in a foreign intelligence service prison in the hopes of getting an admission (true or otherwise) of involvement with Al Qaeda? Based on a State Department cable obtained...
The U.S. military said it targeted a senior al Qaeda leader in Idlib province, Syria on Sept. 20, but has offered few details concerning the airstrike.
The post U.S. targets suspected al Qaeda leader in Idlib, Syria first appeared on FDD's Long War...
Related topics: Syria, Military
In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, new fears have been raised that a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan represents a potentially deadly terrorism threat to the United States. “Al Qaeda operated from...
Related topics: Terrorism, Afghanistan, Kabul, Taliban
Damascus, Iran, the Russian military, Hezbollah and other forces fighting terrorism in Syria have repeatedly accused Washington of cooperating with Daesh (ISIS)*, al-Qaeda* and other terrorist entities operating in the war-torn country. US officials...
Related topics: Syria, Iran, Military, Hezbollah, Terrorism, Isis
On Sept. 11, Nasher al Khayr, an al Qaeda-affiliated media outfit, released a video celebrating the jihadists' deadliest day. The video offers a history of the 9/11 plot, stressing the importance of "idea development" and jihadist safe havens.
The...
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At Niger’s borders with Mali and Burkina Faso, the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) and al-Qaida-affiliated Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) are battling it out, and it’s unimaginably brutal. Jihad wars and the...
Related topics: Niger, Mali, Sahara, Religion
Bin Laden's Former Right-Hand Man Has Resurfaced. Does It Matter?
Authored by Ken Silva via The Epoch Times,
A recently released video suggests that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri may still be alive.
Some national security...
Related topics: Usa Videos, Ayman Al Zawahiri
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned five al-Qaida supporters for allegedly helping the militant group with financial assistance.
The department said the operatives supporting al-Qaida were working out of Turkey.
"We will continue working...
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France says Abu Walid al Sahrawi, the leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, was killed in a drone strike in August. Al Sahrawi became a key figure in the global rivalry between the Islamic State and al Qaeda. His men were responsible...
Related topics: France, Drones, Sahara
Trevor Filseth
Counterterrorism, Middle East
The threat of terrorism, which had been concentrated in Afghanistan prior to 9/11, had “metastasized,” with active Islamist movements spread across the Middle East, Africa, and western...
Related topics: Terrorism, Afghanistan
Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an increasing number of commentators and activists have embraced the questionable claim that the threat posed by Islamism for the last few decades has been supplanted by a far-right menace, or
Related topics: Anniversaries, Activism
Mullah Sangeen Zadran, a senior Taliban and Haqqani Network leader, was intricately linked to Al Qaeda. he viewed the two groups as inseparable "brothers." The U.S. killed Sangeen and an Al Qaeda bomb maker in a drone strike in Pakistan in 2013.
The...
Related topics: Taliban, Drones, Pakistan
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The al-Qaeda terror group (banned in Russia) could have the capability to threaten the US mainland from Afghanistan in one to two years, Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) Director Scott Berrier said at the Intelligence and...
Related topics: Russia, Afghanistan
Yasmine Mohammed was born and raised in Canada, but she lived a life that few Western women could fathom.
The daughter of an Egyptian and a Palestinian, she is of Arab descent and was raised Muslim. Forced to wear a hijab and adhere to a strict...
Related topics: Canada
Amid the chaotic withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, politicos and insiders have warned that the rapid pullout could set the stage for the resurgence of terrorist groups in the war-torn nation. Some anticipate a return of al-Qaeda* could...
Related topics: Terrorism, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan
Zawahiri was reported dead last November, but as I noted at the time, people such as al-Zawahiri tend to die more than once. Take, for example, the Islamic State’s caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He was reported seriously injured or dead several...
Related topics: Ayman Al Zawahiri, Usa Videos
One might almost think all this had something to do with Islam, if we didn’t have so many knowledgeable Western politicians assuring us otherwise. They couldn’t be wrong, could they? “Al-Qaeda congratulates Taliban, calls for...
Related topics: Religion, Taliban
The Taliban* established de-facto control over almost all of Afghanistan last month after the collapse of the Western-backed Kabul government. The militants have promised Russia, the United States and other countries that they would not allow...
Related topics: Taliban, Afghanistan, Kabul, Russia