Tag: Al Qaeda

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., questions Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, not shown, about Sirajuddin Haqqani's role in the Taliban government, during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington.

State Department holds firm on Taliban and Haqqani network being ‘distinct entities’

Jerry Dunleavy · September 22, 2021 7:54 pm

US and Russian military leaders meet amid terrorism concerns

Mike Brest · September 22, 2021 6:07 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, March 26, 2015 file photo, an Iraqi military helicopter attacks Islamic State group positions during clashes in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi troops started the final phase of an offensive to recapture Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Thursday, a military official said, just hours after the United States launched airstrikes on the Islamic State held city. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

US conducts airstrike on senior al Qaeda leader in Syria

Mike Brest · September 20, 2021 9:02 pm

General tries to distance botched Kabul airstrike from ‘over-the-horizon’ strategy

Jerry Dunleavy · September 18, 2021 11:00 am

Afghanistan one month after the fall of Kabul: Taliban back, Haqqanis in power, and al Qaeda lurks

Jerry Dunleavy · September 15, 2021 2:19 pm

Shot in Yemen, the video shows Nasir al-Wuhayshi, the No. 2 leader of al Qaeda globally and the chief of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, out in the open, greeting other members with kisses and handshakes. Â (Screenshot from the video)

Al Qaeda could develop capacity to attack US homeland in ‘one to two years,’ intel officials say

Mike Brest, Jerry Dunleavy · September 14, 2021 10:43 pm

New judge says 9/11 trial at Gitmo is ‘at least one year away’

Jerry Dunleavy · September 14, 2021 6:44 pm

Blinken floats ‘new’ war-making powers to counter terrorist threats in Afghanistan

Joel Gehrke · September 14, 2021 6:34 pm

FILE - In this April 1998 file photo, al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is seen in Afghanistan. A person familiar with developments said Sunday, May 1, 2011 that bin Laden is dead and the U.S. has the body.

Youngest son of Osama bin Laden feels only ‘shame’ and ‘horror’ for father’s actions

Luke Gentile · September 14, 2021 2:56 pm

Declassified FBI records on possible Saudi connection show 9/11 Commission fell short

Jerry Dunleavy · September 14, 2021 11:00 am

Osama bin Laden, left, and Ayman al Zawahiri are seen in October 2001.

Zawahiri video shows al Qaeda alive and well amid Taliban takeover

Jerry Dunleavy · September 13, 2021 7:08 pm

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks to the media during a news conference with the Secretary of State for Defense Philip Hammond, not pictured, at Lancaster House in London on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. Britain's defense minister says it appears the hostage situation in Algeria has come to an end and resulted in further loss of life. Philip Hammond calls the loss of life appalling and unacceptable. He says "it is the terrorists that bear the sole responsibility for it." Hammond spoke at the start of a news conference with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Former CIA director predicts future domestic terrorist attacks from al Qaeda

Kaelan Deese · September 12, 2021 2:35 pm