Al-Qaida has been subtly testing a new strategy. In the past couple of years, the group's affiliates have been trying their hand at governing — actually taking over territory and then trying to win ...

The global terrorist threat from Al-Qaida and the Islamic State has become increasingly “multipolar and complex,” with both organizations adapting sophisticated recruitment strategies and expanding ...

Al-Qaida's bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania left hundreds dead and Aimen Dean outraged by the carnage. Then three years later, September the 11th, almost 3,000 people killed, and Dean ...

Another al-Qaida leader, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, was killed in Pakistan's tribal area by a U.S. drone strike in August. The hunt for top-level al-Qaida members continues in the wake of Osama bin Laden's ...

One might think that betraying both the world's most notorious terrorism group and the West's most well-funded intelligence agency would be a shortcut to an early grave. The man who did it, however, ...

The death of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a U.S. airstrike is likely to test the terror group’s resolve and coherence – and possibly strain long-crafted ...

As its losses mount in Iraq, will a less potent Islamic State merge with its precursor, al-Qaida? That speculation ramped up this week after Iraqi Vice President Ayad Allawi told Reuters he had ...

On this week’s edition of “The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,” Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, said al-Qaida is now shifting its ...

A year ago Tuesday, Navy SEALs attacked Osama bin Laden's secret compound in Pakistan and may have fundamentally changed al-Qaida as we know it. The Obama administration's top counterterrorism chief, ...

With the death in Pakistan of al-Qaida No. 2 Abu Yahya al-Libi in a Predator attack early Monday, the terrorist group’s highest councils once again face the daunting task of filling both a leadership ...