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Al-Qaeda, broad-based militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s. It began as a logistical network to support Muslims fighting against the Soviet Union during the Afghan War and transformed into the active terrorist organization known for carrying out the September 11 attacks of 2001.
However, the choice of targets shows that Mohammed Merah had followed the doctrine of Al Qaeda. This terrorist organization recommended killing Jews and Crusaders (cf. Al-Qaeda’s February 1998 Call for Jihad for the Liberation of the Muslim Holy Sites from the World Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders, Kepel et al., 2005, p
The Haqqanis maintain an alliance with al Qaeda, but view ISIS-K as a competitor and a threat to their interests and so have cynically cooperated with U.S. security officials and other regional counterterrorism actors to hunt down and eliminate the group’s leaders in Afghanistan, resulting in significant losses throughout 2023.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Islamist militant who, as an operational planner for al-Qaeda, masterminded some of that organization’s highest-profile terrorist operations, most notably the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001.
The al-Qaeda threat might be considered secondary to ISIS, but that hasn’t dented its ambition. Al-Qaeda is likely motivated to take back its position at the vanguard of a global jihad, making the danger no less deadly. While ISIS gets headlines, al-Qaeda’s quiet revival risks going unnoticed.
Osama bin Laden, the notorious Saudi Arabian militant and founder of al-Qaeda, orchestrated numerous terrorist attacks that shook the world and forever changed global security dynamics.
Jihad by the tongue (jihad bil lisan) (also Jihad by the word, jihad al-qalam) is concerned with speaking the truth and spreading the word of Islam with one's tongue. Jihad by the hand (jihad bil yad) refers to choosing to do what is right and to combat injustice and what is wrong with action.
