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
The illicit transfer of arms shows the two groups casting aside ideological differences to serve their own interests and those of the Iranian regime.
Information provided to proven US counterterrorism program can help to eradicate the persistent threat posed by ISIS-K and other extremists.
