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Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, a high-ranking member of Al-Qaeda, issued a statement after the bombing, claiming that the attack was a response to the 2005 publication of the Muhammed Cartoons. [ 25 ] The Battle of Wanat occurred on July 13, 2008, when forces including Al-Qaeda and Taliban guerrillas attacked NATO troops near the village of Wanat in the ...
Al-Qaeda attacks U.S. military forces for the first time in the Yemen hotel bombings in Aden. 26 Feb 1993 World Trade Center. New York City, New York, U.S. Ramzi Yousef carries out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. 3-4 Oct Mogadishu, Somalia, Horn of Africa: 18 American servicemen are killed by al-Qaeda-trained forces in the Battle of ...
The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan in New York City that was destroyed September 11, 2001. The site is being rebuilt with six new skyscrapers and a memorial to the casualties of the attacks. World Trade Center; World Trade Center (PATH station) One World Trade Center; Marriott World Trade ...
On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists took control of four commercial aircraft and used them as suicide weapons in a series of four coordinated acts of terrorism to strike the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and an additional target in Washington, D.C.
Spain marked the 20th anniversary of the terrorist Madrid train bombings of March 11, 2004, that killed 191 people as experts say there are lessons learned on the importance of fighting Al Qaeda.
The NORAD timeline had served as the official account of the military response, and elements of that timeline appeared in the book Air War over America (notably information concerning United Flight 93, e.g., pages 59 and 63), [34] and was given in testimony to the 9/11 Commission by NORAD's Major General Larry Arnold (retired), and Colonel Alan ...
Four of the Secret Service agents who spoke to Reuters noted that Ramzi Yousef - the al Qaeda-linked mastermind of the first World Trade Center attack in 1993 and a nephew of September 11 ...
A car bomb exploded at the entrance of the US consulate in Erbil. ISIL took credit for the attack. [75] 3 5 Afghanistan: April 18 A suicide bomb detonated in front of a bank in Jalalabad. ISIL claimed responsibility. [76] 33 100+ Somalia: April 20 A minivan of UN workers was bombed by Al-Shabaab in the Puntland region. [77] 9 4 Iraq: May 3