Sahel & West Africa

7+ hour, 31+ min ago   (317+ words) This was because Bush, and American officials in general, listened to polyannish and willfully ignorant leftists such as Harvard’s Noah Feldman, who insisted that Sharia was benign and perfectly compatible with Western secular pluralism, and could be made the supreme…...

17+ hour, 29+ min ago   (798+ words) Taliban has created “a permissive environment” allowing al-Qaeda to consolidate its presence through safe houses and training camps across Afghanistan, according to a report Twenty five years after the 9/11 attacks, al-Qaeda and other terror groups are regrouping in Afghanistan following…...

11+ hour, 31+ min ago   (128+ words) “Al-Qaeda’s plans for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks took root in dusty, mud-walled compounds in Afghanistan that served for years as terrorist training camps,” the Washington Post reports. “A quarter-century later — despite decades of U.S. military and counterterrorism operations aimed at eradicating…...

10+ hour, 17+ min ago   (19+ words) Niger’s junta leader has appointed a new armed forces chief after a deadly mutiny threatened their hold on power...

23+ hour, 4+ min ago   (423+ words) Al-Qaeda has released a new propaganda video featuring Hamza bin Laden, the son of the group’s founder Osama bin Laden, ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, raising renewed international concerns about the militant network’s presence and activities in…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (806+ words) Twenty-five years after al Qaeda militants carried out the September 11 attacks in the United States, the organisation founded by Osama bin Laden has been weakened by the deaths of its top leaders and the rise of Islamic State, but its…...

13+ hour, 47+ min ago   (120+ words) Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world, national news, entertainment and more. In-depth DC, Virginia, Maryland news coverage including traffic, weather, crime, education, restaurant reviews and more. The terror organization and its offshoots have set up at least eight…...

21+ hour, 52+ min ago   (587+ words) WASHINGTON (TNND) — Twenty-five years ago this morning, 19 al-Qaida hijackers turned four commercial airliners into weapons, killing nearly 3,000 people in the Sept. 11 attacks. The plot was conceived, financed and directed by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Former…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (67+ words) 25 years after 9/11, we rarely hear about the state of the organization responsible for the attacks. The Atlantic recently put out a piece on al-Qaeda that says in part, "analysts can't decide if the terrorist organization is all but defunct or…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1539+ words) Twenty-five years after the 9/11 attacks in the US, Al-Qaeda has transformed from a centralised terrorist organisation into a decentralised global network. With powerful affiliates across Africa, Yemen and South Asia, the group has prioritised local governance, territorial influence and long-term…...