The Latest Breaking News from Qaida

Al-Qaida and IS-linked violence in Africa’s Sahel belt set to hit record levels this year

Twenty-five years after 9/11, figures compiled by conflict monitor underline how Sahel region has become centre of Islamist terror

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16

Osama bin Laden shook the world on 9/11. Today it is clear how his wider plans failed

The al-Qaida leader envisaged an economically battered US withdrawing from the Middle East – and a global Muslim uprising. Then the tide turned, says Jason Burke, the Guardian’s international security correspondent

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11

‘It was all hands on deck’: how the CIA responded to 9/11

Veterans recall chaos and confusion as the attacks unfolded – followed by a ‘war on terror’ that left agency with a tarnished reputation

The Guardian - US · Sep 10

Mali suspends French TV channels over alleged false reports

Mali's ruling junta has suspended two French TV channels for broadcasting alleged false information about a fuel blockade by the al-Qaida-linked military group Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM)

The Independent UK · Nov 14, 2025

Al-Shabab claims responsibility for an explosion at a Somalia military training school

Somalia's defense ministry is investigating an explosion at a military training school in Mogadishu that has been claimed by the al-Qaida-linked group al-Shabab

The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2025

Will emergence of HTS in Syria raise level of global terrorism threats?

Intelligence chiefs have to decisively analyse the risk posed by group once affiliated to islamists al-Qaida

The Guardian - UK · Dec 9, 2024

9/11 families angry with PGA tour

In partnering with LIV, families of the 9/11 victims say the PGA has “done a complete 180”

Salon · Jun 15, 2023

Al-Qaida chief’s killing comes as group gains ground in African conflict zones

UN says terror organisation, whose affiliate recently attacked Mali’s most important military base, ‘is once again the leader of global jihad’

The Guardian - UK · Aug 5, 2022

Muskan Khan's father to Al-Qaida chief: 'We are living peacefully in India'

MANDYA(KARNATAKA): Distancing himself from the video statement released by Al-Qaida chief Ayman Al Zawahiri, praising Karnataka college student Muskan Khan for defending hijab, her father on Wednesday termed the comments of the terror outfit's leader as "wrong", and said he and his family were living peacefully in India. Noting that…

The Times of India · Apr 6, 2022

Algerian man held 20 years at Guantanamo Bay sent home

An Algerian man, accused of training al-Qaida terrorists and held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002, has been released and sent home to Algiers.

Tribune News Service · Apr 3, 2022