A l-Qaeda affiliate Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) is the main group behind a surge in militant jihadist attacks ...

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With up to 6,000 fighters, JNIM is now the most well-armed militant force in the Sahel — and among the most powerful in the world, officials and experts say.

Al Qaeda is not without friends within Afghanistan, beyond its long historical ties with the Haqqani Network, a powerful player within the Taliban regime.

If al Qaeda were a state or something akin to a state in 1996, then by implication Afghanistan and the Taliban did not so much host al Qaeda as surround it, as if it were an enclaved state.

Al-Qaeda has survived significant losses over the past 12 years%2C but keeps finding openings; Now that U.S. is gone%2C Iraq seems particularly fertile ground for terrorists%2C observers say; ...

The al-Qaeda that attacked the USA on 9/11 is not the same al-Qaeda the United States fights today. Once based in Afghanistan with a strong leader who ordered attacks on Western capitals, ...