Al Qaeda in Syria's carefully calculated decision to distance itself from its parent organization

9/ 11, and al Qaeda is worse for the wear.... Intensive counterterrorism pressure in Afghanistan and

one to two years for al Qaeda to build some capability to at least threaten the homeland, ” General

“ The nature of Al Qaeda and[ Islamic State] is they will always attempt to find space to grow and

( also known as ISIS), al Qaeda has quietly lingered on and is attempting to make a comeback.... Some

of crushing the extremist group. After two decades of conflict and counterterrorism operations, “ al-

Democracies( FDD) told Fox News.... That same month, Jamal al-Badawi – alleged to have been the

Terror fears surged on Thursday when at least 72 people were killed, including 12 US service personnel, after two explosions and a vicious gunfight outside Kabul airport in Afghanistan, where thousands of people are trying to flee the country.... Islamic State said on its Telegram account it was behind the twin blasts and gunfire outside the airport after it was widely believed affiliate ISIS-K had been responsible.... It is believed suicide bombers carried out the horrific attacks close to wh

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria( ISIS) or Al-Qaeda militants being in the country, days after ISIS

“ To have a friend of terrorists, which Taliban have been, running a whole country is not a good thing.” But the Taliban will have “ learned some lessons in the last 20 years, ” said Mr.... Sawers, executive chairman of Newbridge Advisory, a risk-analysis firm.... “ They will push it and argue that you can fight for 20 years and get power.” So a more immediate risk will be the encouragement of “ lone actors ” to commit local acts of terrorism, one of the main goals of the social media campaign