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Among the first pieces of evidence regarding Saudi Arabia's support for al-Qaeda was the so-called "Golden Chain", a list of early al-Qaeda funders seized during a 2002 raid in Sarajevo by Bosnian police. [176] The hand-written list was validated by al-Qaeda defector Jamal al-Fadl, and included the names of both donors and beneficiaries.
The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. Three years later, the Taliban's return to power has allowed al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to regain a presence in the country, and ...
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 ...
This is a list of current and former members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its previous incarnations, including operating as a branch of al-Qaeda known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), from 2004 to 2006. [1]
The alleged planner of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, was arrested in Pakistan in 2003. Al-Qaeda still exists. It is strongest in Sub-Saharan Africa but even now has members inside ...
Several national governments and two international organizations have created lists of organizations that they designate as terrorist. [1] The following list of designated terrorist groups lists groups designated as terrorist by current and former national governments, and inter-governmental organizations.
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 ...
Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State also fight on opposing sides in the Mali War and the Boko Haram insurgency. [48] During the Derna campaign, pro-Al-Qaeda militants successfully broke the Islamic State in Libya's siege on Derna and began fighting the Islamic State all around Libya. [49]