Al-Qaida

A Day At The Beach Is A Way Of Saying 'We're Not Afraid' Of Terrorists

6:59pm March 24, 2016

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

A mother in Ivory Coast defiantly brings her children to the resort town where al-Qaida terrorists killed 19 people on March 13. A new music video reinforces her stand.

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An Ivorian soldier stands guard on March 18, 2016 at the site of a jihadist shooting rampage at the beach resort of Grand Bassam.

Ivory Coast Struggles To Keep Economy Afloat After Terror Attack

6:28pm March 20, 2016

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

Ivory Coast's business community is shaken after a deadly al-Qaida attack on a beach resort. The West African nation's economy had been on the rebound after a civil war.

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U.S. Airstrikes Kill At Least 150 Militants In Somalia, U.S. Military Says

5:28pm March 07, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

The U.S. military has hit an al-Shabab training camp north of Mogadishu using both drones and manned aircraft. Al-Shabab is linked to al-Qaida.

CIA director John Brennan says he has "absolutely the best job in the world."

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Transcript: NPR's Interview With CIA Director John Brennan

5:00am February 24, 2016

In an interview with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, CIA Director John Brennan discusses the FBI/Apple dispute over over the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone, the state of ISIS and al-Qaida and interrogation.

A soldier stands near a hotel that was attacked by militants on Friday in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou.

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Suspected Al-Qaida Militants Strike Hotel In Burkina Faso

10:52pm January 15, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The gunmen attacked a hotel and a cafe in Ouagadougou, the capital of the West African nation. The foreign minister says people have died. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility.

A screenshot of Lucas Kinney, a 26-year-old Briton who recently began making videos for Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaida affiliate in Syria. Kinney's father is a veteran Hollywood assistant director who helped make such films as Rambo and the Indiana Jones s

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The New Propagandist For Al-Qaida In Syria And His Link To Hollywood

6:37pm October 27, 2015

by Dina Temple-Raston

Lucas Kinney, a 26-year-old Brit, is making propaganda videos for an al-Qaida affiliate. He may have learned a thing or two from his father, a Hollywood assistant director who worked on Rambo.

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An Islamic State fighter holds holds a rifle and the group's flag shortly after capturing the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in June 2014. Dozens of Americans have been accused of planning or heading off to the Middle East to join the group. Their individua

Who Are America's Suspected ISIS Followers?

3:34pm September 09, 2015

by Dina Temple-Raston

More than 60 U.S. citizens have been accused of joining or supporting the Islamic State in the past two years. NPR has documented their individual cases.

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A 1998 file photo of Ayman al-Zawahri speaking at a news conference in Khost, Afghanistan. The reclusive al-Qaida leader says he has pledged support to the new chief of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.

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Al-Zawihiri Pledges Allegiance To New Taliban Chief

5:09pm August 13, 2015

by Scott Neuman

In an audio statement attributed to the al-Qaida leader, Ayman Al-Zawihiri says he backs the Taliban's Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, who was chosen to replace the deceased Mullah Omar.

An undated file picture shows Osama bin Laden. A new Wikileaks release purports to reveal that one of his sons requested a death certificate for the al-Qaida leader, who was killed in a U.S. military raid in 2011.

Bin Laden Son Asked U.S. For Father's Death Certificate, Wikileaks Says

1:40pm June 20, 2015

by Scott Neuman

The website has begun the release of 500,000 documents it says are related to Saudi Arabian diplomatic communications. Among them was the request from Abdullah bin Laden.

An image of Mokhtar Belmokhtar from the U.S. State Department's wanted poster in the Rewards for Justice program. Belmokhtar was a leading figure in al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.

U.S. Airstrikes In Libya Kill Algerian Militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar

5:22am June 15, 2015

by Camila Domonoske

Belmokhtar, a leader of al-Qaida's arm in North Africa, masterminded the 2013 attack on an Algerian gas plant in which 38 foreign hostages were killed.