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Al-Qaeda in Iraq [a] (Arabic: القاعدة في العراق, romanized: al-Qā'idah fī al-ʿIrāq; AQI), was a Salafi jihadist organization affiliated with al-Qaeda. [1] [10] [11] [2] It was founded on 17 October 2004, [1] and was led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi until its disbandment on 15 October 2006 after he was killed in a targeted bombing on June 7, 2006 in Hibhib, Iraq by the United ...
In turn, al-Qaeda leaders were able to brand a new franchise in Iraq and claim they were at the forefront of the fight to expel U.S. forces. [108] But this relationship was proven to be fragile as Zarqawi angered al-Qaeda leaders by focusing attacks on Iraqi Shias more often than the U.S. military.
Nasir al-Wuhayshi: Leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: Killed in 2015. [10] Abdelmalek Droukdel: Leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: Killed in 2020. [11] Asim Umar: Leader of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent: Killed in 2019. [12] Fazul Abdullah Mohammed: Leader of al-Qaeda in East Africa: Killed in 2011. [13] Hamza bin Laden ...
As part of al-Qaeda, he reportedly also served as militant for Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna under Abu Ali al-Anbari and co-founded a militant base called the "al-Jazira camp". As a local insurgent officer, he led rebel forces against the United States during the Battle of Tal Afar (2005). [16] In 2007, al-Qurashi was appointed al-Qaeda's general ...
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To preserve al-Nusra's independence, al-Sharaa publicly pledged allegiance directly to al-Qaeda's leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who issued a declaration that confirmed al-Nusra's independence from ISI, [39] [40] [41] proclaiming that Syria was the "spatial state" of al-Nusra Front and that ISIL's rule was restricted to Iraq.
BEIRUT (Reuters) -As the commander of al Qaeda's franchise in the Syrian civil war, Abu Mohammed al-Golani was a shadowy figure who kept out of the public eye, even when his group became the most ...
Al-Qaeda defector al-Fadl, who was a former member of Qatar Charity, testified in court that Abdullah Mohammed Yusef, who served as Qatar Charity's director, was affiliated to al-Qaeda and simultaneously to the National Islamic Front, a political group that gave al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden harbor in Sudan in the early 1990s.