List of Al Qaeda articles
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UNSPECIFIED, PERSIAN GULF REGION - JANUARY 07: A U.S. Air Force MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), (R), returns from a mission to an air base in the Persian Gulf region on January 7, 2016. The U.S. military and coalition forces use the base, located in an undisclosed location, to launch drone airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria, as well as to transport cargo and and troops supporting Operation Inherent Resolve. The Predators at the base are operated and maintained by the 46th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, currently attached to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) Trump Expands War Authorities to Target Militants in Somalia
Under a new authorization, U.S. forces are given more ability to launch attacks on al Shabab in the East African country
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<> on September 23, 2010 in Marja, Afghanistan. ‘Mission Accomplished’ Will Never Come in Afghanistan
Will the Trump administration put American interests first, or the president’s own obsession with "winning"?
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TOPSHOT - Syrian civil defence volunteers, known as the White Helmets, dig through the rubble of a mosque following a reported airstrike on a mosque in the village of Al-Jineh in Aleppo province late on March 16, 2017. The US military says it carried out an air strike in northern Syria against an Al-Qaeda target, but denies deliberately targeting a mosque where dozens were killed according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. / AFP PHOTO / Omar haj kadour (Photo credit should read OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Says Airstrike In Syria Did Not Hit Mosque
Videos emerged of a bombed-out mosque and dozens dead after an airstrike in northern Syria, but U.S. officials say they hit al Qaeda.
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Fighters from Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front drive in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo flying Islamist flags as they head to a frontline, on May 26, 2015. Once Syria's economic powerhouse, Aleppo has been divided between government control in the city's west and rebel control in the east since shortly after fighting there began in mid-2012. AFP PHOTO / AMC / FADI AL-HALABI (Photo credit should read Fadi al-Halabi/AFP/Getty Images) Al Qaeda Is Starting to Swallow the Syrian Opposition
On the sixth anniversary of the Syrian uprising, moderate rebels have never been weaker — and jihadis have never been stronger.
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Pro-government forces walk in the port of the western Yemeni coastal town of Mokha as they advance in a bid to try to drive the Shiite Huthi rebels away from the Red Sea coast on February 9, 2017. Forces supporting President Abedrabbo Masnour Hadi, backed by the coalition, began a major offensive on January 7 to recapture the coastline overlooking the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait. / AFP / SALEH AL-OBEIDI (Photo credit should read SALEH AL-OBEIDI/AFP/Getty Images) From SEALs to All-Out War: Why Rushing Into Yemen Is a Dangerous Idea
The first foreign-policy crisis of the Trump administration may be in a country most Americans could not find on a map.
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obl Osama bin Laden’s Secret Masturbation Fatwa
How the sexual torment of Islamic radicals helps explain the genesis of jihadi violence.
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knell_top1 Imprisoned by al Qaeda, Saved by a Kitten
How I slipped my jihadi captors and escaped from Syria.
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fishman_cover The Man Who Could Have Stopped the Islamic State
Almost 10 years ago, an al Qaeda emissary was sent to tell Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to tone down his terrorism. The journey, and its failure, gave birth to ISIS.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mourning the Syria That Might Have Been
How Assad’s forces bombed a democratic experiment into oblivion.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Al Qaeda Is Gaining Strength in Syria
While Washington sits on the sidelines, the siege of Aleppo has cleared a path for the return of America’s greatest enemy.
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Flag of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a Salafi jihadi extremist militant group and self-proclaimed caliphate and Islamic state which is led by Sunni Arabs from Iraq and Syria. Dated 2015. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) The Greatest Divorce in the Jihadi World
Al Qaeda wasn’t about to take ISIS’s defection from its ranks lying down. In Part III of an exclusive series, an Islamic State insider describes the events that led to civil war within the anti-Assad ranks.
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Flag of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a Salafi jihadi extremist militant group and self-proclaimed caliphate and Islamic state which is led by Sunni Arabs from Iraq and Syria. Dated 2015. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) How the Islamic State Seized a Chemical Weapons Stockpile
When jihadists captured a Syrian military base, they found a cache of some of the world’s most dangerous weapons buried in its bunkers. In Part II of an exclusive series, an Islamic State member explains how they eventually fell into the hands of the self-styled “caliphate.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Saudi Arabia Strikes Back
In the wake of the Iran nuclear deal, Saudi Arabia has increasingly taken matters into its own hands.
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Flag of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a Salafi jihadi extremist militant group and self-proclaimed caliphate and Islamic state which is led by Sunni Arabs from Iraq and Syria. Dated 2015. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images) Present at the Creation
The never-told-before story of the meeting that led to the creation of ISIS, as explained by an Islamic State insider.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 28 Pages, Zero Proof of Anything
It should be clear to even the most die-hard conspiracy theorists that the argument for official Saudi involvement in 9/11 is bogus.
