Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Ahmed al-Shara During the interview, al-Sharaa stated that "the matter of previous links with al-Qaeda is part of the ...
Syria’s interim president, a onetime Al-Qaeda leader and former U.S. detainee, was interviewed this week by the man who oversaw the forces that captured him, former CIA Director and former Army Gen.
WASHINGTON — President Trump praised Syria President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Monday after the first-ever White House visit for a Damascus head of state — days after the US and United Nations removed ...
A blockbuster story published in The New York Times over the weekend, declared there to be "no evidence" that al-Qaeda played a role in the 2012 attack on the American compound in Benghazi. However, ...
Doha: Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, President of Syria, today denied that he had been a terrorist. Asked whether he was a terrorist, he said he never harmed civilians and in the 20 years he "fought," he ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is excerpted from the book Race Against Terror by Jake Tapper, published by Atria, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Printed by ...
WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. National Counterterrorism Center said on Friday that recent calls by al Qaeda for attacks against the United States showed the group's enduring threat to the ...
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said Monday that his ties to al-Qaeda are “a matter of the past,” emphasizing that he did not play any role in 9/11 despite his past affiliations. He added that his ...
Post-9/11, Al Qaeda’s fascinationwith bringing down passenger aircraft is as strong as ever. As one window of opportunity closes, another seems to open. With doors to the cockpit now closed, and ...
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It’s Time to Confront Afghanistan and Iran About Al-Qaeda

The al-Qaeda terror network operates with impunity out of Iran and Afghanistan. America must lean on both countries’ regimes to bring it to heel.
The US military killed a “senior Al-Qaeda affiliated attack planner” in an airstrike in Syria on October 2. The jihadi was a member of Ansar Islam, a terrorist organization that has operated in Iraq ...
The recent video appearance of Hamza bin Laden, son of Osama bin Laden, underscores al-Qaeda’s resilience and its capacity to project continuity after the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri. Although the ...