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Al-Qaeda gunmen stormed building complexes inhabited by Western expatriates, killing 39 people and wounding over 160. [21] The 2003 Casablanca bombings occurred on May 16, 2003, in Casablanca, Morocco. 45 people were killed as a result of these attacks (12 suicide-bombers and 33 victims). The 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing occurred on August 5 ...
Aafia Siddiqui (also spelled Afiya; [ 8 ] Urdu: عافیہ صدیقی; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani national who is serving an 86-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, for attempted murder and other felonies. [ 6 ][ 9 ] Siddiqui was born in Pakistan to a Sunni Muslim family. [ 1 ]
Dozens killed in Mali attack by Al Qaeda affiliate. September 19, 2024 at 6:56 PM. (Reuters) - An elaborate attack by an Al Qaeda affiliate in Mali's capital this week killed some 70 people ...
October 8, 2024 at 9:17 AM. Yui Mok/PA via AP. ISIS and al Qaeda present a “resurgent” threat to the United Kingdom, the head of the country’s domestic security service warned in a rare ...
The conflict between Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State conflict was also referred to as the "Jihadist civil war". [31] Also, since the establishment of the Islamic State, many Al-Qaeda affiliated groups became fractured, with certain factions of the groups pledging allegiance to the Islamic State, while the rest opposed the Islamic State.
An al Qaeda-linked group said it killed nearly 300 people in Saturday's devastating attack in north-central Burkina Faso, but said it targeted militia members linked to the army, not civilians ...
Al-Qaeda (/ æ l ˈ k aɪ (ə) d ə / ⓘ; Arabic: القاعدة, romanized: al-Qāʿidah, lit. 'the Base', IPA: [alˈqaː.ʕi.da]) is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.
Show comments. 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 ...