List of Al Qaeda articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Taliban’s New Number 2 Is a ‘Mix of Tony Soprano and Che Guevara’
Sirajuddin Haqqani has killed hundreds of Americans and thousands of Afghans and could ensure that his country’s future is even bloodier than its past.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Pentagon Says It Killed Senior Khorasan Figure — Again
The United States says al Qaeda cell leader Muhsin al-Fadhli died in a "kinetic strike," but questions remain over his importance in the group.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy Is the Definition of Insanity
Six theories for why Washington keeps doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different result.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Al Qaeda Claims Western Hostages Killed in U.S. Drone Strikes Converted to Islam
Warren Weinstein and Giovanni Lo Porto were killed in a drone strike while held captive in Pakistan.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s Most Dangerous Man Is Still Alive
A U.S. drone strike killed Nasir al-Wuhayshi. But the real threat is AQAP’s elusive master bomb-maker.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Survive the Death of Its Leader?
The terror franchise’s fate hangs in the balance following the U.S. drone strike that killed Nasir al-Wuhayshi.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Will the U.S. Go After Mokhtar Belmokhtar’s Network?
The reported killing of the al Qaeda mastermind in Libya has officials in Washington wondering how far to take the fight against America's enemies in North Africa.
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY People attend a mass of the Assembly of God church, in Goiania, Goias State, Brazil, on May 19, 2013. The election of evangelical minister Marco Feliciano as president of the House of Deputies' commission of human rights and minorities, is seen as a sign of the growing influence of evangelicals in Congress, where they have 67 deputies ot of a total 513, and in Brazilian politics in general. Evangelicals count 565 million adherents and represent more than one-fourth of the world's Christians, according to French researcher Sebastien Fath. AFP PHOTO / Evaristo SA (Photo credit should read EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 French Consultant Kidnapped in Yemen Begs for Help in Newly Released Video
Isabelle Prime was kidnapped in Yemen in February. In May, her unidentified captors released a video of her begging for her release.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Battle of Jihadi Groups, Pakistani Taliban Prefers al Qaeda Over ISIS
The Pakistani Taliban has published an essay criticizing the Islamic State's aggressive tactics.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Bin Laden’s Odd Religious Library
Osama bin Laden spent the latter years of his life portraying himself as an authority on Islamic law who was qualified to order Muslims around the world to strike Western targets — and then capable of giving them the purported scriptural justifications for their actions.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Al Qaeda’s Blueprint For How To Start a Homegrown Terror Franchise
This 15-page document outlines how to form homegrown terror cells.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Newly Released bin Laden Files Include Trove of Letters, Books — and Issues of FP
The al Qaeda leader had several 2008 issues of Foreign Policy in his Abbottabad hide out.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Have What it Takes to be in Al Qaeda? Apply here.
Al Qaeda's job application in very traditional, but contains questions that hint at the chilling work the job entails.
