List of Al Qaeda articles
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Pro-government forces walk in the port of the western Yemeni coastal town of Mokha as they advance in a bid to try to drive the Shiite Huthi rebels away from the Red Sea coast on February 9, 2017. Forces supporting President Abedrabbo Masnour Hadi, backed by the coalition, began a major offensive on January 7 to recapture the coastline overlooking the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait. / AFP / SALEH AL-OBEIDI (Photo credit should read SALEH AL-OBEIDI/AFP/Getty Images) From SEALs to All-Out War: Why Rushing Into Yemen Is a Dangerous Idea
The first foreign-policy crisis of the Trump administration may be in a country most Americans could not find on a map.
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obl Osama bin Laden’s Secret Masturbation Fatwa
How the sexual torment of Islamic radicals helps explain the genesis of jihadi violence.
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knell_top1 Imprisoned by al Qaeda, Saved by a Kitten
How I slipped my jihadi captors and escaped from Syria.
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fishman_cover The Man Who Could Have Stopped the Islamic State
Almost 10 years ago, an al Qaeda emissary was sent to tell Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to tone down his terrorism. The journey, and its failure, gave birth to ISIS.
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gettyimages-514489558-cropped Mourning the Syria That Might Have Been
How Assad’s forces bombed a democratic experiment into oblivion.
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A member of the Islamist Syrian opposition group Ahrar al-Sham fires against a position of the Committees for the Protection of the Kurdish People (YPG), a militia set up to protect Kurdish areas in Syria from opposing forces, during clashes in the countryside of the northern Syrian Raqqa province on August 25, 2013. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said on August 27 the UN mission investigating alleged chemical weapons attacks in Damascus has been delayed until the following after rebels failed to guarantee the experts' safety. AFP PHOTO/ALICE MARTINS (Photo credit should read ALICE Martins/AFP/Getty Images) Al Qaeda Is Gaining Strength in Syria
While Washington sits on the sidelines, the siege of Aleppo has cleared a path for the return of America’s greatest enemy.
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Flag of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a Salafi jihadi extremist militant group and self-proclaimed caliphate and Islamic state which is led by Sunni Arabs from Iraq and Syria. Dated 2015. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) The Greatest Divorce in the Jihadi World
Al Qaeda wasn’t about to take ISIS’s defection from its ranks lying down. In Part III of an exclusive series, an Islamic State insider describes the events that led to civil war within the anti-Assad ranks.
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Flag of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a Salafi jihadi extremist militant group and self-proclaimed caliphate and Islamic state which is led by Sunni Arabs from Iraq and Syria. Dated 2015. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) How the Islamic State Seized a Chemical Weapons Stockpile
When jihadists captured a Syrian military base, they found a cache of some of the world’s most dangerous weapons buried in its bunkers. In Part II of an exclusive series, an Islamic State member explains how they eventually fell into the hands of the self-styled “caliphate.”
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A picture taken on April 21, 2016 shows US President Barack Obama (C-L) attending a meeting with Saudi King Salman (C) and Saudi Defence Minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C-R) during the US-Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Riyadh, on April 21, 2016. During a meeting with Gulf leaders in Saudi Arabia Obama said that "No country has an interest in 'conflict' with Iran". / AFP / Jim Watson (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) Saudi Arabia Strikes Back
In the wake of the Iran nuclear deal, Saudi Arabia has increasingly taken matters into its own hands.
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Flag of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a Salafi jihadi extremist militant group and self-proclaimed caliphate and Islamic state which is led by Sunni Arabs from Iraq and Syria. Dated 2015. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) Present at the Creation
The never-told-before story of the meeting that led to the creation of ISIS, as explained by an Islamic State insider.
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ksa 28 Pages, Zero Proof of Anything
It should be clear to even the most die-hard conspiracy theorists that the argument for official Saudi involvement in 9/11 is bogus.
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jubeir What We Know About Saudi Arabia’s Role in 9/11
The Saudi government still says it had no connection to the hijackers. Newly released classified information proves otherwise.
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Iranian soldiers chant anti-Israeli and anti-US slogans during a ceremony marking the 36th anniversary of the return from exile of the founder of Iran's Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on February 1, 2015 at Khomeini's mausoleum in a suburb of Tehran. Khomeini returned from exile in 1979, the trigger for a revolution which spawned an Islamic state now engulfed in a deep political crisis. AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images) Iran and its Protégées
What if we understood al Qaeda and the Islamic State as protégées of Iran?
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A Muslim youth holds a poster during a protest against Donald Trump on December 20, 2015 in New York. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump proposed a call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States. AFP PHOTO/KENA BETANCUR / AFP / KENA BETANCUR (Photo credit should read KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images) U.N. Genocide Watchdog Suggests Trump, American Hardliners Fueling Hatred of Muslims
In a veiled swipe at Donald Trump, the U.N. special advisor on genocide accuses American politicians and pastors of feeding discrimination of Muslims.
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NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 14: Police officers have their roll call in the Times Square subway stop following a series of terrorist attacks in Paris on November 14, 2015 in New York City. Security in New York City has increased following the coordinated assault on Paris which ISIS claimed responsibility for. At least 120 people have been killed and over 200 injured, 80 of which seriously. (Photo by ) Terrorism’s Deadly New Breed
How can counterterrorism officials prepare for and prevent the wave of Islamic State-inspired carnage?
