List of Al Qaeda articles
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GettyImages-75257614 crop How the War on Terror Failed Yemen
The West decided to make fighting al Qaeda its top priority — and only ended up making things worse.
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aaatech SitRep: China Blasts Pentagon Report; Ash Carter’s Tech Plan Rebooted
Big Navy conference kicks off; sunken drone pods; and lots more
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GettyImages-127851591_5-9 Anwar al-Awlaki’s Life After Death
The persistent popularity of the American imam killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen is a lesson in the difficulty of stamping out radicalism.
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Fighters from the al-Qaida group in the Levant, Al-Nusra Front, stand among destroyed buildings near the front line with Syrian government solders in Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp, south of Damascus on September 22, 2014. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says more than 180,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict since it erupted in March 2011, while the United Nations puts the figure at 191,000. AFP PHOTO/ RAMI AL-SAYED (Photo credit should read RAMI AL-SAYED/AFP/Getty Images) Al Qaeda Is About to Establish an Emirate in Northern Syria
After years on the back foot, the Nusra Front is laying the groundwork for al Qaeda’s first sovereign state.
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GettyImages-84937788crop Pakistani Spies May Have Funded 2009 Suicide Bombing Targeting CIA Outpost
The ISI allegedly funneled $200,000 to the Haqqani Network to strike Forward Operating Base Chapman.
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IN FLIGHT - JULY 6: In this handout image provided by the U.S. Air Force, an F-15 Strike Eagle flies over Southwest Asia during combat operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom July 6, 2004 while in flight. (Photo by Lee O. Tucker/U.S. Air Force via Getty Images) SitRep: U.S. Pounds More al Qaeda Franchises
More Syrians to be trained; Russia blocks U.N. report; Gitmo Libyans can’t go home; global military spending up; and lots more
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maaratnuman The Syrian Revolution Against al Qaeda
An unexpected turn after a clash between Free Syrian Army forces and Jabhat al-Nusra fighters offers a window into who’s really winning hearts and minds.
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AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 8: Undated file picture of Saudi dissident Ossama Bin Ladin in an undisclosed place inside Afghanistan. Ossama Bin Ladin speaks while siting in front of a bannar inscribed basic Islamic tenet in Afghanistan. The billionaire Bin Ladin, member of a family of wealthy Saudi construction tycoon, is blamed for two bomb blasts in his home country in 1995-96 that killed 24 US servicemen. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images) Bin Laden’s Syllabus for Fighters, Fears of the Dentist, and Elaborate Will
The latest trove of documents from Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan shed further light on his anxieties.
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GettyImages-52010518 Read Declassified Bin Laden Documents Here
Newly declassified documents show Osama bin Laden set aside about $29 million in his will to fund terrorism.
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GettyImages-470813652 Why Won’t the White House Pay for Warren Weinstein’s Death?
Warren Weinstein's family is pressing the federal government to compensate them for his death.
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Burkina Faso troops stand guard outside Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou on January 18, 2016 following a jihadist attack by Al-Qaeda-linked gunmen late on January 15. Security forces are hunting for any possible surviving gunmen from the attack claimed by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) that left at least 30 people dead and showed the expanding reach of regional jihadists in west Africa. / AFP / ISSOUF SANOGO (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images) The Drone War Goes Awry in Africa
Al Qaeda's attack on Burkina Faso proves that "decapitating" a terror group doesn't always change it for the better.
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Special police forces are seen during search operations following an attack by Al-Qaeda linked gunmen on January 16, 2016 in Ouagadougou. Security forces in Burkina Faso on January 16 completed a counter-offensive against jihadist assailants who stormed a top hotel and a restaurant in the capital hours earlier, a security source said. The source said security forces were continuing search operations in the area around the Splendid hotel and nearby Cappuccino restaurant, which were attacked by the Al-Qaeda-linked gunmen late on January 15, killing at least 23 people. / AFP / AHMED OUOBA (Photo credit should read AHMED OUOBA/AFP/Getty Images) Burkina Faso Attackers Killed As Troops Storm Hotel
The latest in a string of attacks by the Islamist group in Africa leaves dozens killed and wounded
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Syrian mourners wave the pre-Baath Syrian flag, now used by the Free Syrian Army, over the bodies of civilians, who were executed and dumped in the Quweiq river, during their burial at a park now renamed "Martyrs of the River" park in the Bustan al-Qasr district of the northern city of Aleppo on January 31, 2013. The bodies of dozens of young men, all executed with a single gunshot, were found in the river this week, adding to the grim list of massacres committed during Syria's 22-month conflict. AFP PHOTO/JM LOPEZ (Photo credit should read JM LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images) The War Over Syria’s War Dead
Assad is routinely accused of murdering 250,000 of his own people. The only problem is that there’s no proof he did.
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Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov (L) and US Secretary of State John Kerry hold a news conference after a UN Security Council meeting on Syria at the United Nations in New York on December 18, 2015. The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution endorsing a peace process to end the nearly five-year war in Syria. AFP PHOTO/ TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images) In Syria, Moscow’s Terrorist Is Washington’s Freedom Fighter
The United States, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are at odds over which Syrian fighters they'll be able to shoot as terrorists — and which will be labeled moderates.
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ALEPPO, SYRIA - DECEMBER 03: Members of opposition groups make preparations during the US-led coalition airstrikes against DAESH positions at Brekida village in Aleppo, Syria on December 03, 2015. (Photo by Huseyin Nasir/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) The Chaos Coalition
New York talks aimed at ending the Syrian civil war are exposing the sprawling strategy gulf in the coalition against the Islamic State.
