Al-Qaeda
It went from being a hybrid terror organization that controls its own territory to a classical decentralized terror network. Yet the ISIS branch in Sinai remains one of the most effective in the world.
Four experts of geostrategic analysis and business consultancy at Wikistrat experts weigh in on the long-term significance of the Islamic State leader’s death.
U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly approved major raid targeting terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi less than a week ago.
Pro-Al-Qaeda cleric in Gaza calls for jihad after New Zealand mosque attacks
On March 17, the pro-Al-Qaeda cleric from Gaza, Nael Musran Bin Ghazi, wrote a message on Telegram in Arabic and English in response to the New Zealand terror attacks of March 15, 2019.
Senior Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) Commander Khaled Batarfi accuses Arab, Gulf State governments of hastening to normalize relations with Israel and calls on Muslims to confront them militarily.
“The Mujahideen (holy warriors) carried out this operation ... (as) a response to the witless remarks of U.S. president, Donald Trump, and his declaration of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) as the capital of Israel,” said the two-page statement.
The U.S. State Department confirmed the death of Jason Spindler, who was at a meeting in the offices of I-Dev International, his investment consulting firm, when he was fatally shot.
Norway-based jihadi scholar Mullah Fateh Krekar: “New groups will emerge after Al Qaeda and ISIS are gone because the Koran and Sunnah are permanent.”
“Anyone who is saying that Erdoğan, AKP and Al Qaeda are enemies are making a huge mistake. They don’t like democracy, but they see that Erdoğan is the best way for them to reach their objectives,” said Ahmet Yayla, former chief of counterterrorism in Sanliurfa, near the Syrian border.
Report: Congress investigates $200,000 given to terrorist-designated group by US
Congress is investigating a 2014 decision by the Obama administration to give $200,000 to the Islamic Relief Agency, which the United States designated as a terrorist group in 2004 because it provided funding to Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
In a five-minute video titled “Tel Aviv Is Also a Land of Muslims,” Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri called on Muslims to carry out a jihad against the United States in response to America’s decision to move its Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
