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20 Mar 2023, 5:47 am by Christopher S. Chivvis
The result was over a trillion dollars lost, thousands of U.S. service members killed and wounded, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead, a major setback in the war against al-Qaeda, irreparable damage to America’s global reputation, and tears in the fabric of American politics and society. [read post]
16 Mar 2023, 5:47 am by Rachel Alpert
Finally, an Islamist descendant of al-Qaeda groups fighting in Syria’s civil war, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), controls a portion of the far northwest of the country that includes Idlib. [read post]
He was accused of training al Qaeda militants in the English language and on construction of circuit boards for remotely detonated bombs. [read post]
9 Mar 2023, 4:24 am by Emma Snell
  The U.S. military yesterday repatriated a Saudi engineer who had been held for over 20 years ‌at Guantánamo Bay under suspicion of having made bomb‌s for Al Qaeda. [read post]
2 Mar 2023, 1:48 pm by Hyemin Han
The CY 2021 war powers report’s unclassified annex, issued in April 2022 after U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, stated that withdrawal had not changed the legal or policy framework for use of force there in countering threats from al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other entities. [read post]
27 Feb 2023, 5:49 am by Marieke de Hoon
Security Council Resolution 1386 (Dec. 10, 2001) authorized the establishment of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the use of “all necessary means” to assist the Afghan authorities to maintain security, in particular in relation to al-Qaeda and the Taliban. [read post]
” The brothers, turned over to US military forces by Pakistani authorities in 2004, stood accused of maintaining al-Qaeda safehouses in Pakistan and facilitating the travel of extremists in and out of neighboring Afghanistan. [read post]
24 Feb 2023, 5:25 am by Emma Snell
The brothers, who were detained for operating safe houses used by al Qaeda members but were never charged with a crime, were repatriated to Pakistan after it was determined that their detention was no longer necessary to protect against a “continuing, significant threat” to the U.S.. [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 4:38 am by Emma Snell
Africa Command considers to be the world’s largest al Qaeda network. [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 5:16 am by Colin P. Clarke, Mollie Saltskog
The resulting power vacuum in Afghanistan could lead the country to become a safe haven for transnational terrorist organizations, including al-Qaeda, much like it did prior to the 9/11 attacks. [read post]
15 Feb 2023, 4:26 am by Emma Snell
  OTHER GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS  A new report by U.N. experts has identified Saif al-Adel as the new “de facto and uncontested” leader of al-Qaeda. [read post]
9 Feb 2023, 5:56 am by Daniel R. Brunstetter
Editor’s Note: This article is the third installment of our Values in Foreign Policy symposium. [read post]
On December 4, 2002, Khan delivered $50,000 to an al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist group in Thailand. [read post]
30 Jan 2023, 5:49 am by Brian Finucane
Although President Biden has publicly touted major wins, such as the killing of al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri in Kabul, the president has not delivered a major policy speech on international terrorism – and aside from a speech from the president’s counterterrorism advisor in 2021, his top officials have done minimal significant public engagement. [read post]
24 Jan 2023, 10:44 am by Irene
The caption of the widely circulated warning reads: “Al-Qaeda says upcoming attacks on US, possibly involving planes, will use new techniques and tactics. [read post]
24 Jan 2023, 6:05 am by Liz Hume
Libya continues to grapple with the presence of the Islamic State and al-Qaeda affiliates, while the ISIS-M is destabilizing the north of Mozambique, and violent extremism continues to spread from the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin throughout Coastal West Africa. [read post]
18 Jan 2023, 6:00 am by James Petrila, Phil Wasielewski
 Designation as an FTO will make it legally dangerous to provide support to the Wagner Group as it currently is to provide support to other FTOs, such as the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas. [read post]