In an exit interview with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, CIA Director William Burns says he still thinks "there's a chance" for a ...
In 2022, he oversaw the operation that killed the leader of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri. After war broke out between Israel ...
On a shelf in his office at CIA headquarters, director Bill Burns keeps a tiny, scaled model of a house. It's the house in Kabul, Afghanistan, where al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by ...
On a shelf in his office at CIA headquarters, director Bill Burns keeps a tiny, scaled model of a house. It's the house in Kabul, Afghanistan, where al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by a U ...
But has this new leader really rejected what al Qaeda stands for and severed ties with al Qaeda’s extended network? Mr al-Sharaa delivered an address in 2016 in which he disavowed “affiliation ...
In another setback to President Bashar al-Assad's hold on power, the Syrian government forces have lost control of Daraa city, widely regarded as the birthplace of Syria's 2011 civil uprising.
For more recent analysis of Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), see this August 2023 post from the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program's Examining Extremism series. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS or ...
This analysis of JNIM was published in 2018 and is not being updated. For a more recent analysis of JNIM from the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program, please click here. JNIM, whose name ...
Last year, during the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden pledged his administration would not allow the new Taliban-led regime to make the country a safe-haven for terrorists.
Only a year ago, online people shared news of the possible death of Al-Qaeda's chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri, saying that the terrorist group's close circles were reporting Ayman Al-Zawahiri's death of ...
Lawrence Wright has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. He has also written books, movies, and plays. Wright lives in Austin, Texas, with his family, and plays the keyboard for the ...