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Dec 31 2020
News
Senate Investigation Finds Obama Admin Knowingly Funded al-Qaeda Affiliate
Non-profit humanitarian agency World Vision United States improperly transacted with the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA) in 2014 with approval from the Obama administration, sending government funds to an organization that had been sanctioned over its ties to terrorism, according to a new report.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) recently released a report
National Review
Aug 04 2022
Perspectives Blog
Al Qaeda Leader Killed by US Drone Strike
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The leader of al Qaeda and one of the main figures in planning the September 11 attacks was killed in a U.S. drone strike on Sunday. Ayman al-Zawahiri was hiding in a wealthy neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan, according to
AllSides Staff
May 18 2020
News
FBI finds link between Pensacola gunman and al Qaeda, official says
The FBI has found a link between the gunman in a deadly attack at a military base last December and an al Qaeda operative, a U.S. official said Monday.
Attorney General William P. Barr and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray were set to hold a news conference to announce developments in the shooting late last year at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, in which a Saudi Air Force officer
Washington Times
Feb 01 2020
News
Man in Arizona accused of being Al Qaeda leader by Iraq: feds
A man the Iraqi government says is an Al Qaeda leader has been arrested in Arizona, prosecutors said.
Authorities in Iraq have accused Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, 42, of killing two police officers in Fallujah in 2006 with other members of the terror group founded by Usama Bin Laden, Arizona federal prosecutors said.
Al-Nouri was arrested Wednesday in Phoenix and appeared before a
Fox News (Online News)
Aug 15 2018
News
Al Qaeda returns? UN panel warns of new bin Laden threat
As the Islamic State is driven out of its former strongholds, a U.N. panel is warning that the next big terror threat in the region could come, once again, from Al Qaeda -- led by the son of Usama bin Laden.
Fox News (Online News)
Jul 25 2018
News
Obama Administration Knowingly Funded a Designated al-Qaeda Affiliate
The Middle East Forum has discovered that the Obama administration approved a grant of $200,000 of taxpayer money to an al-Qaeda affiliate in Sudan — a decade after the U.S. Treasury designated it as a terrorist-financing organization. More stunningly, government officials specifically authorized the release of at least $115,000 of this grant even after learning that it was a designated terror
National Review
Nov 20 2015
News
Islamic State Tactics Shift, Borrowing From al Qaeda
U.S. and European counterterrorism officials believe Islamic State has changed its operational tactics by borrowing from al Qaeda’s playbook, deploying trusted lieutenants to engineer larger, more coordinated plots against the West.
Wall Street Journal (News)
Jun 16 2015
News
Al-Qaeda says No. 2 leader killed by U.S. drone strike in Yemen
U.S. officials said Nasir al-Wuhayshi, who pushed the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula faction to engineer repeated terror plots against the United States, was targeted in a strike last week.
Washington Post
Dec 29 2015
News
As U.S. Focuses on ISIS and the Taliban, Al Qaeda Re-emerges
Training camps have sprouted up in Afghanistan, leading to questions on whether they could again become breeding grounds for attacks on the United States.
New York Times (News)
Aug 04 2015
News
ISIS or Al Qaeda? American Officials Split Over Top Terror Threat
The Obama administration’s top intelligence, counterterrorism and law enforcement officials are divided over which terrorist group poses the biggest threat to the American homeland, the Islamic State or Al Qaeda and its affiliates.
New York Times (News)