2025-02-14
Atmosphere of suspicion and distrust is fueled by a leadership vacuum, with high-ranking al-Qaeda figures competing for power and influence.
2025-02-12
More than two years after US strike killed its leader, al-Qaeda's failure to acknowledge the death or name a successor reveals a group in decline.
2025-02-10
As the group struggles in Afghanistan and abandons its principles to base its leadership in Iran, its Africa affiliates are gaining outsized influence.
2025-02-07
Though its roots are in Afghanistan, the group now looks to African affiliates for legitimacy as its influence wanes in traditional strongholds.
2025-01-31
Al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM is betraying Islamic principles as it expands across the Sahel region, using brutal tactics to further its reign of terror.
2025-01-30
Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin's indiscriminate killing of civilians in the Sahel region contravenes Islamic teachings on warfare.
Since losing the last strip of territory it controlled in Syria in 2019, the group has faced a series of financial, military and leadership setbacks.
2025-01-24
Al-Qaeda's diminished online presence and loss of support and credibility reflects a deeper ideological crisis within the group.
2025-01-23
Information provided to proven US counterterrorism program can help to eradicate the persistent threat posed by ISIS-K and other extremists.
The illicit transfer of arms shows the two groups casting aside ideological differences to serve their own interests and those of the Iranian regime.