But one event this year showed that AQAP was still playing the role for which ... affiliate in Somalia - JNIM is the second most active al-Qaeda branch. JNIM attacks are largely focused on local ...

The terrorist network is capable of rapid dispersal and redeployment of militants to the areas of hostilities, and still has sufficient resource support, Alexander Bortnikov noted MOSCOW, June 23.

And is al-Qaeda still influential? He was widely seen as ... "appears to be growing more ambitious…it remains resilient and active in many regions and retains the ambition to project itself ...

Western officials similarly hoped that al-Qaeda, while still a force in localised conflicts in Yemen, Somalia and the Sahel, ...

Members of Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an Al-Qaeda affiliate active in Mali and Burkina Faso, attacked ...

Speaking to reporters, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad also sought to play down an independent U.N. experts report that ties between the Taliban and al Qaeda remain close despite the Taliban’s ...

Since then, several have been found dead, and some were released in a short-lived December ceasefire, leaving 97 still in the hands of the Islamist Palestinian group. Al-Qaeda, held responsible ...

The Washington Post’s Dan Lamothe provides new reporting on the two large al Qaeda training facilities raided by US and Afghan forces in the Shorabak District of Kandahar earlier this month. Lamothe ...

From Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley to the ungoverned fringes of the Sahara, from the floodplains of the Euphrates to the limestone mountains of Puntland in Somalia, al-Qaeda and particularly Isis are ...