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6 Apr 2021, 6:46 am by Daniel Milton
Editor’s Note: The Islamic State’s current leader, Amir Muhammad Sa'id 'Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla, is something of a mystery. [read post]
21 Mar 2021, 7:01 am by Asfandyar Mir, Colin P. Clarke
In 2015, Iran released six al-Qaeda leaders, including Abu al-Khayr al-Masri, Abu Muhammad al-Masri, Saif al-Adel, and Abu al-Qassam, in exchange for the kidnapped Iranian diplomat. [read post]
19 Nov 2020, 8:18 am by Daniel Byman
These reports come at the same time as the killing of another very senior al-Qaida leader, Abu Muhammad al-Masri, in Tehran, reportedly by Israeli agents at the behest of the United States. [read post]
14 Nov 2020, 12:59 pm by Tom Smith
WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda’s second-highest leader, accused of being one of the masterminds of the deadly 1998 attacks on American embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran three months ago, intelligence officials have confirmed.Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was gunned down on the streets of Tehran by two assassins on a motorcycle on Aug. 7, the anniversary of the embassy attacks. [read post]
2 Sep 2020, 5:01 am by Abdul Sayed
Security Council’s Sanction Monitoring Team reported that Syrian national Abu Muhammad Saeed Khurasani was most likely to become the new leader of ISKP. [read post]
31 Aug 2020, 4:59 am by Andrew Mines
Later in their conversation, Masood pledged allegiance to the Islamic State’s new caliph, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi, and began forming concrete plans for his travel to join the group in Syria. [read post]
21 Jun 2020, 7:01 am by Bruce Hoffman, Jacob Ware
In May 2016, Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani implored followers in the West to attack in their home countries, rather than join the fight in Syria and Iraq. [read post]
19 Apr 2020, 7:00 am by Raffaello Pantucci
By some accounts, it was after he was caught playing Abu Hamza tapes at the mosque. [read post]
4 Nov 2019, 12:37 pm by Jacob Schulz
At the request of lawyers representing victims of the 2015 attacks, on Oct. 18 the French issued an international arrest warrant for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State’s leader, and Baghdadi’s former spokesman, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani. [read post]
27 Oct 2019, 8:17 am
" If you click through to the obituary, the headline is different — "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State’s ‘terrorist-in-chief,’ dies at 48. [read post]
23 Jul 2019, 9:52 am
The simplistic binaries that frame conversations of Palestinian armed struggle evoke the condescension expressed by colonial overloads toward the resistance of indigenous peoples. [read post]
24 Mar 2019, 6:00 am by Michael S. Smith, II
Witnesses who escaped the Islamic State’s remaining territory have told coalition forces that some of the Islamic State’s foreign fighters rose up against Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in September 2018, touching off several days of fighting among jihadis. [read post]
Though the cover letter was signed “Abu Muhammad al-Ameriki,” Clark used his birth name in the email address included on the letter. [read post]
16 Sep 2018, 7:00 am by Kim Cragin
Yet Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had already assumed control over al-Qaeda in Iraq at that time. [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 11:38 am by Charles R. Church
     The man the world knows as Abu Zubaydah is a Palestinian born and raised in Saudi Arabia; his given name is Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn. [read post]
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani, was dispatched to Syria in August 2011 to manage the expansion of ISI inside Syria. [read post]
22 Mar 2018, 8:04 pm by David B. Kopel
The 1999 march was a follow-up to a 1998 event of the same name, organized by Khalid Abdul Muhammad. [read post]
14 Jan 2018, 7:00 am by Alex Thurston
After that event, the movement’s founder, Muhammad Yusuf, partly rehabilitated himself within northeastern Nigerian society and even with certain politicians. [read post]