US kills Al-Qaeda-linked leader behind ISIS attack that killed two service members and American interpreter, military says

A third round of retaliatory strikes in Syria resulted in the death of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader, officials say ...
Reuters

US National Counterterrorism Center warns of threat from al Qaeda

WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. National Counterterrorism Center said on Friday that recent calls by al Qaeda for attacks against the United States showed the group's enduring threat to the ...
Homeland Security Today

Hamza bin Laden’s Reappearance: Continuity, Propaganda, and Al-Qaeda’s Entrenchment in Afghanistan

The recent video appearance of Hamza bin Laden, son of Osama bin Laden, underscores al-Qaeda’s resilience and its capacity to project continuity after the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri. Although the ...
CNN

The making of an al Qaeda fighter: Spin Ghul’s journey from the streets of Saudi Arabia to jihadi training camps

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is excerpted from the book Race Against Terror by Jake Tapper, published by Atria, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Printed by ...
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Twenty four years after 9/11, al-Qaeda resurgence poses ‘daily threat’ to US

The United States faces a troubling question on the 24th anniversary of 9/11: Is history in danger of repeating itself? Nearly 3,000 lives were lost on that tragic day in 2001, when al-Qaeda struck ...
Long War Journal

US kills Al Qaeda-linked ‘attack planner’ in Syria

The US military killed a “senior Al-Qaeda affiliated attack planner” in an airstrike in Syria on October 2. The jihadi was a member of Ansar Islam, a terrorist organization that has operated in Iraq ...