About the only non-Iraqi al Qaeda leader left in Iraq is military leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, a Jordanian. In the last few months, American commandoes nearly caught Zarqawi at least three times. On ...

Almost two decades ago, a classified analysis by the Defense Intelligence Agency warned that global terrorist attacks masterminded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq ...

With news of al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death in a U.S. air strike Wednesday, President Bush called his death a victory in the war on terror and ...

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in Iraq in 2006. Milley was able to persuade Trump to back down, Woodward writes, but fears no such ...

A group led by Al Qaida ally Abu Musab Al Zarqawi appealed to Iraqi militants holding an Iraqi-British aid worker to free her unless she was proven to be a spy, a message posted on an Islamic web ...

Under the leadership of the Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, AQI became a major force in the Iraqi insurgency and gained notoriety for its brutal tactics, including beheadings. In early 2006 ...

Iraq's Al Qaida said that its leader Abu Musab Al Zarqawi was not among those killed in a deadly weekend raid in Mosul. Iraq's Al Qaida said that its leader Abu Musab Al Zarqawi was not among ...

The third “X” on TIME’s cover happened in 2006, when U.S. forces killed Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. The most recent usage of the “X” was in 2011, for the ...

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Read full article: IS leader stayed hidden as he rebuilt his group from defeat The leader of the Islamic State group killed in a U.S. raid overnight in northwest Syria was largely a mystery, with ...