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In 2001, al-Qaeda had around 20 functioning cells and 70,000 insurgents spread over sixty nations. [173] According to latest estimates, the number of active-duty soldiers under its command and allied militias have risen to approximately 250,000 by 2018. [174]
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 ...
Tanzim Hurras al-Din (Arabic: تنظيم حراس الدين, romanized: Tanẓīm Ḥurrās ad-Dīn, lit. 'Guardians of the Religion Organization'), sometimes referred to as Al-Qaeda in Syria, [8] is a Salafi Jihadist organization fighting in the Syrian civil war.
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 ...
DUBAI (Reuters) -Seif al-Adel, a former Egyptian special forces officer who is a high-ranking member of al Qaeda with a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, is now the "uncontested" leader of the ...
HTS is banned as a terrorist organization in the United States and elsewhere and grew out of a branch of Al Qaeda. Its leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, said a decade ago that there would be no room ...
Al-Qaeda was released from prisons in exchange for the release of Paul Johnson, but the offer was rejected by the Saudi government. [75] Al-Qaeda members beheaded the hostage 72 hours after his kidnapping was announced online. [76] Security forces found Johnson's body in the Al-Munsiyah neighborhood, east of Riyadh.
On 26 July 2020, a United Nations report stated that the al-Qaeda group is still active in twelve provinces in Afghanistan and its leader al-Zawahiri is still based in the country, [45] and the UN Monitoring Team has estimated that the total number of al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan were "between 400 and 600 and that the leadership maintains ...