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al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, al-qāʿidah, "the base") is an Islamist jihadist multinational organization that was founded around August 1988 and late 1989. [36] p75 [37] It works as a network, as a stateless army, [38] and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad .
In August 2022, the once-vaunted Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula is shown to be greatly weakened when none of the group's leaders were deemed potential successors to Ayman al-Zawahiri as leader of Al Qaeda following al-Zawahiri's death.
Al-Qaeda planned to attack USS The Sullivans on January 3, 2000, but the effort failed due to too much weight being put on the small boat meant to bomb the ship. Despite the setback with USS The Sullivans, al-Qaeda succeeded in bombing a U.S. Navy warship in October 2000 with the USS Cole bombing, killing 17 sailors.
Dec 4, 2018 · The global terror network, al Qaeda, founded by Osama bin Laden, has been responsible for thousands of deaths on 9/11 and several other deadly attacks across the globe.
Sep 1, 2011 · Daniel Byman examines al Qaeda's setbacks and advances since September 11, 2001 in order to better understand both why the terrorist organization is so troubled and why it may remain a global...
Al-Qaeda ( / ælˈkaɪdə, ˌælkɑːˈiːdə /; Arabic: القاعدة, romanized: al-Qāʿida, lit. 'the Base', IPA: [ælqɑːʕɪdɐ]) is a Sunni pan-Islamist extremist militant organisation led by Salafi jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic state known as the Calip...
Al-Qaeda in Iraq, militant Sunni network, active in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion of 2003, first led by Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi to oppose the U.S. occupation and the Shi’i-dominated Iraqi government. Later merging with smaller groups in Iraq and Syria, it was a key player in the rise of ISIL.
