• Thumbnail for Al-Qaeda
    Al-Qaeda (/ælˈkaɪ(ə)də/ ; Arabic: القاعدة, romanized: al-Qāʿidah, lit. 'the Base', IPA: [alˈqaː.ʕi.da]) is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by...
    260 KB (24,708 words) - 22:14, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Qaeda in Iraq
    as Al-Qaeda in Iraq (Arabic: القاعدة في العراق, romanized: al-Qā'idah fī al-ʿIrāq, abbr. AQI), was a Salafi jihadist organization affiliated with Al-Qaeda...
    47 KB (4,035 words) - 18:17, 12 September 2024
  • al-Qaeda has five distinct phases in its development: its beginnings in the late 1980s, a "wilderness" period in 1990–1996, its "heyday" in 1996–2001,...
    81 KB (8,413 words) - 22:28, 16 September 2024
  • The Saddam–al-Qaeda conspiracy theory was based on false claims by the United States government alleging that a secretive relationship existed between...
    92 KB (11,451 words) - 00:09, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
    Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Arabic: تنظيم القاعدة في جزيرة العرب, romanized: Tanẓīm al-Qā‘idah fī Jazīrat al-‘Arab, lit. 'Organization of the Base...
    192 KB (15,248 words) - 05:54, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ayman al-Zawahiri
    of al-Qaeda from June 2011 until his death in July 2022. He is best known for being one of the main orchestrators of the September 11 attacks. Al-Zawahiri...
    119 KB (11,551 words) - 21:12, 18 September 2024
  • list of attacks which have been carried out by Al-Qaeda. On December 29, 1992, the first attack by Al-Qaeda was carried out in Aden, Yemen, known as the...
    26 KB (2,939 words) - 08:23, 16 September 2024
  • al-Qaeda. Al-Adel fought the Soviets as an Afghan Arab before becoming a founding member of the al-Qaeda organization. He is a member of Al-Qaeda's Majlis...
    58 KB (5,654 words) - 17:19, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
    Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (Arabic: تنظيم القاعدة في بلاد المغرب الإسلامي, romanized: Tanẓīm al-Qā'idah fī Bilād al-Maghrib al-Islāmī)...
    58 KB (4,749 words) - 18:17, 12 September 2024
  • Look up al-Qaeda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. al-Qaeda is an Islamist terrorist multinational organization. al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, lit. 'foundation')...
    399 bytes (80 words) - 12:58, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent
    Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (Arabic: جماعة قاعدة الجهاد في شبه القارة الهندية, romanized: Jamā‘at Qā‘idat al-Jihād fī Shibh al-Qārrah al-Hindīyah...
    41 KB (3,148 words) - 14:17, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Nusra Front
    organization". In April 2013, Al-Nusra Front was publicly confirmed as the official Syrian affiliate of al-Qaeda, after Emir Ayman al-Zawahiri rejected the forced...
    170 KB (16,315 words) - 18:16, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Islamic State
    in the Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah organization founded by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi in 2004. The organization affiliated itself with Al-Qaeda, so IS was originally...
    319 KB (25,812 words) - 01:21, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
    The Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen is an ongoing armed conflict between the Yemeni government, the United States and their allies, and al-Qaeda-affiliated...
    131 KB (10,667 words) - 12:43, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri
    2022, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the Salafi jihadist group al-Qaeda, was killed by a United States drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. Al-Zawahiri...
    38 KB (3,485 words) - 20:43, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Allegations of CIA assistance to Osama bin Laden
    wealthy persian Gulf Arabs. When the war ended, bin Laden organized the al-Qaeda organization to carry on armed jihad against other countries, primarily...
    25 KB (3,171 words) - 03:35, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Khalid al-Mihdhar
    attacks. Al-Mihdhar arrived in California with fellow hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi in January 2000, after traveling to Malaysia for the Kuala Lumpur al-Qaeda Summit...
    52 KB (5,886 words) - 18:38, 14 September 2024
  • The 2000 Kuala Lumpur al-Qaeda Summit was a meeting of several high-level al-Qaeda members held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 5 January to 8 January 2000...
    2 KB (247 words) - 00:43, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anwar al-Awlaki
    government officials have stated that al-Awlaki was a key organizer for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda. Al-Awlaki was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico...
    172 KB (16,715 words) - 23:48, 17 September 2024
  • Ahmed al-Tilemsi's Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, and Mokhtar Belmokhtar's Al-Mulathameen. On 4 December 2015, it joined Al-Qaeda in the...
    17 KB (1,426 words) - 12:14, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
    Baghdadi led the "Jama'at Jaysh Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jama'ah" insurgent group in Iraq and was detained with al-Qaeda commanders at the American Camp Bucca...
    175 KB (15,676 words) - 17:16, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
    joined al-Qaeda, and pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden. After this al-Tawhid wal-Jihad became known as Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn...
    160 KB (17,168 words) - 23:41, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al Qaeda Handbook
    The Al Qaeda Handbook 1677-T 1D is a computer file found by Police during a search of the Manchester home of Anas al-Liby in 2000. A translation has been...
    7 KB (679 words) - 18:43, 8 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Motives for the September 11 attacks
    out by 19 hijackers of the Islamist militant organization al-Qaeda. In the 1990s, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden declared a militant jihad against the...
    47 KB (5,167 words) - 19:58, 14 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin
    Liberation Front, al-Mourabitoun and the Saharan branch of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Its leaders swore allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahiri. In 2022...
    19 KB (1,491 words) - 19:54, 18 September 2024
  • al-Qaeda in Afghanistan from 1996 to 2000. According to his memoir, he gave his Bay'ah (oath of allegiance) to Osama bin Laden in 1998. He was in al-Qaeda...
    14 KB (1,642 words) - 01:41, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for War on terror
    As for Al-Qaeda in its current status, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued an official statement on January 12, 2021, stating: "Al-Qaeda has a...
    233 KB (23,793 words) - 11:31, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Al-Shabaab (militant group)
    pan-Islamist organization al-Qaeda since 2012, it has also forged ties with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Formed...
    225 KB (19,297 words) - 04:08, 17 September 2024
  • The Al-Qaeda–Islamic State conflict is an ongoing conflict between Al-Qaeda and its allied groups, and the Islamic State. On 8 April 2013, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi...
    26 KB (2,077 words) - 18:44, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maktab al-Khidamat
    Ayman al-Zawahiri to raise funds and recruit foreign mujahideen for the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. MAK became the forerunner to al-Qaeda and...
    20 KB (2,138 words) - 13:22, 3 August 2024