Al-Qaida

Afghanistan marks Soviet withdrawal anniversary as Taliban rule draws global scrutiny

The Taliban’s governance remains deeply controversial. Since returning to power in 2021, the group has imposed sweeping restrictions on women and girls and enforcing strict social rules.

An Afghan Taliban fighter sit next to an anti-aircraft gun near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, following exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Afghan forces in Afghanistan, October 15, 2025.
Policemen make way for prison van afer a security raid at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party's headquarters in Islamabad on July 22, 2024.

Pakistan arrests ISKP propaganda chief Sultan Aziz Azzam, report says

Indonesian radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir enters a courtroom for the first day of an appeal hearing in Cilacap, Central Java province, January 12, 2016.

Indonesia to release suspected Bali bombings mastermind Bashir

Saudi army artillery fire shells towards Houthi positions from the Saudi border with Yemen April 13, 2015.

U.S. arms land in hands of terror groups in Yemen, incl. Iranians - report


Report: Islamist terrorism responsible for 40% of journalists’ deaths in 2015

The report says that 40 percent of the 69 journalists killed in 2015 died at the hands of Islamic militant groups such as al-Qaida and Islamic State.

Kenji Goto, the Japanese journalist held captive by Islamic State and excuted by the group in January 2015

Analysis: ISIS has dumbed down Islamic radicalism

“Deciding who is a terrorist is highly politicized...The US and other Western countries consider Saudi Arabia a ‘moderate’ Muslim country because it gives us a way to work with them.”

ISIS video calls on Muslims to carry out attacks in France

Report: Leading commander of al-Qaida linked Nusra Front killed in Syria

Second high ranking commander from group reportedly killed in Syria in last week.

A member of al-Qaida’s Nusra Front fighting with other Sunni Islamists in support of the Syrian opposition pose on a tank near Aleppo in November 2014.

ISIS leader's ex-wife among those freed in prisoner swap deal

Live TV footage showed the Lebanese captives in vehicles accompanied by masked men armed with assault rifles and waving the Nusra Front flag before they were released to the Red Cross.

The daughter of Druze policeman Wael Hamzeh Homs, who was captured in Arsal by the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, kisses his picture as relatives react in celebration for his release, outside a tent that was erected last year during an open-ended sit-in near the government palace in downtown Beirut, D

America’s “Gospel of Democracy” meets Putin’s Realpolitik: Russia’s return in force to the Middle East

The Jerusalem Post

Al-Qaida leader praises stabbing attacks in Israel, offers plan to 'liberate Palestine'

In a new audio recording, al-Qaida leader says attacks against US are what is needed to liberate Palestine.

Screenshot from the audio-video recording 'To unit for the Liberation of Palestine' show's Zawahri standing in front of the Al Aqsa Mosque

Al-Qaida chief urges militant unity against Russia in Syria

Muslim supporters are called to band together to confront the threat from the West and Russia in Syria and Iraq

Russia releases footage of airstrikes in Syria

Reframing the Arab-Israeli Conflict

The Jerusalem Post

Iraqi air force: We hit convoy of ISIS leader Baghdadi

An Islamic State fighter reached by telephone said he could not confirm whether Baghdadi had been in a convoy that was struck, but said the group would fight on whatever his fate.

Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi

ISIS vs. al-Qaida: Zawahiri says Baghdadi is not the leader of the Muslim world

"You spill blood and attack the Muslim people in order to rule."

al-Qaida cheif Ayman al-Zawahiri sits with predecessor Osama Bin Laden during an interview in 2001