Al-Qaeda

'Region does not need new war': EU designates Iran's Revolutionary Guard as terrorist organization

Israel welcomed the move, with Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar calling it "an important and historic decision."

|ByREUTERS, MIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Here, posters display assassinated military leaders, including IRGC commander-in-chief Hossein Salami (center), in Tehran at the end of June.
Passengers arrive at the Diori Hamani International airport in Niamey on September 22, 2023; illustrative.

Sustained gunfire, loud blasts heard near airport in Niger's capital

Sustained gunfire and blasts were reported near Niamey International Airport in Niger, as violence continues in the Sahel region, amid jihadist attacks.

|ByREUTERS
Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida delivers a speech following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, January 19, 2025

Hamas admits leadership losses, moves into crisis mode - opinion

Hamas negotiates from exposure rather than strength or ambition, and Gaza has become a place it can neither control nor govern freely.

|BySALEM ALKETBI
Vandenberg wearing a t-shirt bearing the word ‘AMALEK,’ a term meaning ‘destroyer of Jews’ at the travel center on June 12, 2025

Ex Navy SEAL with 'Amalek' shirt convicted of planning to throw explosives at cops

Gregory Vandenberg had purchased fireworks in New Mexico on June 12 with the intention of throwing them at police officers during the June 14 protests against US President Donald Trump in San Diego.

|ByMICHAEL STARR

Al-Qaeda resurfaces in Afghanistan with new training camps, Islamic schools

A UN Security Council report has found that since the Taliban resumed ruling Afghanistan in 2021, the country has returned to being a shelter for terrorist organizations.

FEBRUARY 17, 2024ByDEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE
Taliban fighters celebrate on the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul on a street near the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2023.

Pay with the 'blood of Christians': TikTok users share agreement with Bin Laden's letter

The openly antisemitic letter blames the September 11 attacks in the Eastern US on the existence of Israel.

NOVEMBER 16, 2023ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
The Arabic-language television station al-Jazeera said November 12, 2002 that Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden, shown in Afghanistan in this May 26, 1998 file photo, has hailed recent anti-Western attacks in Bali, Kuwait and Yemen, and last month's hostage-taking in Moscow. The television said b

The US must designate Qatar as a state sponsor of terrorism - opinion

Qatar has a long record of harboring and funding terrorist organizations. It's time the US holds them accountable.

NOVEMBER 13, 2023ByJORDAN COPE
PHOTO: IRAN’S FOREIGN Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (left) meets with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Doha, Qatar, last month.

Australian doctor freed by al Qaeda after 7 years in captivity

The doctor and his wife were seized in January 2016 from Djibo, near Burkina Faso's border with Mali, where they have operated a 120-bed clinic for more than 40 years.

MAY 19, 2023ByREUTERS
FILE PHOTO: Soldiers from Burkina Faso patrol on the road of Gorgadji in the Sahel area of Burkina Faso, March 3, 2019.

Belgium arrests suspected al Qaeda member over Iraq attacks

The attacks were carried out using car bombs against several government buildings among others, the statement said.

MAY 5, 2023ByREUTERS
A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa June 29, 2014. The offshoot of al Qaeda which has captured swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria has declared itself an Islamic "Caliphate" and called on factions worldwide to pledge their allegiance, a st

Even with Iran-Saudi deal, the war in Yemen is far from over - opinion

It is time for the US to discuss the war in Yemen as a Yemeni matter and listen to the Yemeni parties more than the regional powers.

APRIL 10, 2023ByHADEEL OUEIS
A MEMBER of the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) stands at a checkpoint in Aden, in 2021.

Al Qaeda leader in Yemen killed in airstrike attributed to US - report

The target was identified as Hamad bin Hamoud al-Tamimi, a senior figure in Al Qaeda's proxy in the Arabian Peninsula.

MARCH 1, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Shi'ite Houthi rebels drive a patrol truck past an Ansar al-Sharia flag painted on the side of a hill, along a road in Almnash, the main stronghold of Ansar al-Sharia, the local wing of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Rada, Yemen November 22, 2014

Somali lawmaker to TML: Gov't making gains in battling al-Shabab

Secretary of the Somali Defense Committee Ahmed Abdi Koshin says military offensive has 'successfully dislodged' the al-Qaeda-linked terror organization from many parts of the country.

FEBRUARY 26, 2023ByDEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE
A Somali security officer walks at the entrance of Hotel Hayat, the scene of an al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group militant attack in Mogadishu, Somalia August 20, 2022

Can Somalia finally defeat Al-Shabab extremists? - analysis

Al-Shabab is a vicious organization that has worked with Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups and is often behind horrid terror attacks in Somalia.

JANUARY 17, 2023BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A Somali security officer walks at the entrance of Hotel Hayat, the scene of an al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group militant attack in Mogadishu, Somalia August 20, 2022

Jihadist recruiters prey on migrants to Europe 

Recruiters target vulnerable individuals and relocate cells created in Africa.

JANUARY 17, 2023ByDEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE
Taliban fighters drive a car on a street following the killing of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a US strike over the weekend, in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 2, 2022.