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Al-Qaeda linked group claims Mali attack
AFP, Published on 23/07/2022
» DAKAR - An Al-Qaeda affiliate claimed a deadly suicide attack in a strategic garrison town near the Malian capital, according to jihadist monitor SITE which authenticated a statement from the group.
Biden says US killed Al-Qaeda chief al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan
AFP, Published on 02/08/2022
» WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden announced Monday that the United States had killed Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of the world's most wanted terrorists and suspected mastermind of the Sept 11, 2001 attacks.
Al-Qaeda number two 'secretly killed in Iran'
Published on 14/11/2020
» Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, indicted in the United States for the 1998 bombings of its embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, was secretly killed in Iran in August, The New York Times reported on Friday.
Kenya, Tanzania mark bombings which introduced Al- Qaeda
AFP, Published on 05/08/2018
» NAIROBI - Kenya and Tanzania on Tuesday mark 20 years since the devastating US embassy bombings that thrust Al-Qaeda onto the global stage and went on to shape how a generation thinks about personal security.
Al-Qaeda faces succession quandary after Zawahiri killing
AFP, Published on 03/08/2022
» PARIS - The killing of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in a US drone strike will not affect the operations of the terror group's affiliates across the world, but opens the way for a potentially troubled succession process.
US has killed Al-Qaeda chief al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan: US media
AFP, Published on 02/08/2022
» WASHINGTON - The United States has killed Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, according to US media outlets, in what the White House announced Monday was a "successful" operation against a target in Afghanistan.
Iran mocks report of slaying of al-Qaeda figure
AFP, Published on 14/11/2020
» TEHRAN: Iran on Saturday dismissed a US newspaper report that Al-Qaeda's second-in-command was killed in Tehran by Israeli agents as "made-up information" and denied the presence of any of the Sunni jihadist group's members in the Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda heir Hamza bin Laden killed: US media
AFP, Published on 01/08/2019
» WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden's son Hamza, chosen heir to the leadership of Al-Qaeda, has been killed, US media reported Wednesday citing American officials.
Al-Qaeda threatens Charlie Hebdo for republishing Mohammed cartoons: SITE
AFP, Published on 12/09/2020
» PARIS - Al-Qaeda has threatened French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo with a repeat of a 2015 massacre of its staff, after it republished controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the SITE observatory said on Friday.
Saudi attacker on US base had longstanding al-Qaeda ties: US
AFP, Published on 19/05/2020
» WASHINGTON - The Saudi military student who killed three Americans at a US naval base in December had longstanding ties to al-Qaeda and planned an attack before he arrived in the United States, US justice officials said Monday.