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The leader of ISIS died this week. But the terror group remains a formidable force, ...

Henry Herald 05 Feb 2022
It notes that some of al Qaeda's "closest sympathizers within the Taliban now occupy senior positions in the new de facto Afghan administration," and confirms the return to Afghanistan of a former senior aide to the deceased al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden ... The strength of the al ...
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Demonstrators outside the White House on January 11, 2022, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center
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US panel recommends release of mentally ill Guantanamo detainee 

Hong Kong Standard 05 Feb 2022
Suspected of being Al Qaeda's intended 20th hijacker for the September 11, 2001, attacks against the United States, Mohammed al-Qahtani was tortured by interrogators at the US military base in Cuba where he has been detained for nearly two decades.  ... Al-Qahtani was one of the first prisoners sent to Guantanamo in January 2002. .
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Inside US raid on IS leader: months of preparation, then a deadly blast

Dawn 05 Feb 2022
It echoed of the self-detonation of a bomb by his predecessor, Islamic State founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during a US raid in 2019 in Syria ... The Pentagon said at least two armed members of a local al Qaeda affiliate were killed by gunfire from a US helicopter after they approached the scene of the raid while US troops were still at the site.
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Malians storm capital in anti-French mass protest to celebrate envoy expulsion

Press TV 05 Feb 2022
Mali orders France’s ambassador to leave within 72 hours ... Diarra said the expulsion of France's ambassador was an important step and that the next step must be the departure of over 5,100 foreign troops deployed in Mali under the pretext of fighting terrorism and Takfiri outfits linked to Daesh and al-Qaeda ... www.presstv.ir. www.presstv.co.uk ....
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Top speechwriter’s departure caps off year of Kamala Harris gaffes

New York Post 05 Feb 2022
More On. kamala harris. Another one bites the dust. Kamala Harris speechwriter joins growing list of resigning staffers. Blame Democrats for soaring crime, fallen police officers. Kamala Harris reportedly drove within yards of pipe bomb during Capitol riot ... 11 attacks on New York and Washington by al Qaeda terrorists ... Dec. 7, 1941, Sept. 11, 2001, and Jan.
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From Supermax to Supermosque: How Australia's most secure prison has had to adapt from caging ...

The Daily Mail 05 Feb 2022
Milat is pictured at Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital in May 2019 ... The entrance to Supermax is pictured ... The older Al-Qaeda supporters do not even associate with Islamic State's younger adherents ... Truck driver has been in Supermax for the past 18 months, accused of having fought with an al-Quada-linked group called Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria in 2012 ... .
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An abrupt about-face for Biden on using the military

CNN 04 Feb 2022
The current leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has not been able to resuscitate the core of al Qaeda ... This led to a much better understanding of how bin Laden was attempting to control al Qaeda and its affiliates around the world and it also led to other strikes against leaders of al Qaeda which further damaged the group.
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ISIS Leader Killed in Syria but His Network Is Ascendant in Africa

The Intercept 04 Feb 2022
Add in Al Qaeda-affiliated and other radical groups and the total number of Islamist terrorist organizations on the continent is at least 18 ... Meanwhile, there was a 17 percent increase in attacks by the Al Qaeda-linked al-Shabab last year over 2020 numbers, according to the Africa Center.
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How Erdogan Scapegoated ISIS Caliph to Appease Biden?

Dissident Voice 04 Feb 2022
... Centre (CTC) alleged that al-Baghdadi’s successor al-Mawla, who at the time was an al-Qaeda judge, gave the US occupation forces in Iraq the names of 68 al-Qaeda fighters that led to the deaths of several al-Qaeda members after the US military conducted raids to hunt them down.
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Isis leader killed in US raid was a low-key figurehead dubbed ‘the ghost’

The Irish Times 04 Feb 2022
He was already a captive, confined to a small flat in a three-storey breeze-block building in a snowy village in the Syrian northwestern province of Idlib, which is ruled by the former sibling of Islamic State’s bitter rival al-Qaeda, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.
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ISIL leader killed in US raid: Who was Abu Ibrahim al-Qurayshi?

Al Jazeera 04 Feb 2022
The 45-year-old Iraqi had been an important leader in ISIL’s precursor, the Islamic State of Iraq – an offshoot of al-Qaeda – since soon after the US invasion that toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in 2003 ... Camp Bucca was notorious for holding al-Qaeda and Islamic State of Iraq ...
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Pentagon warns a new ISIS leader will 'step up' because they want to 'attack the ...

The Daily Mail 04 Feb 2022
American forces left his body on the scene, unlike the 2011 raid to kill al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden ... Following the invasion of Iraq by the US in 2003 and President Bush's move to disband the country's military, he found himself locked in jail accused of having links to al-Qaeda.
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Abu Luqman: the son of Raqqa who orchestrated the ISIS takeover of his home town

The National 04 Feb 2022
After the US invaded Afghanistan in retaliation for the September 11 attacks, Ali Moussa told his uncle he wanted to join the thousands across the region who travelled to the war to fight alongside the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
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Biden says IS leader killed, removing 'major terrorist' threat

Manila Bulletin 04 Feb 2022
US special forces have carried out several operations against high-value jihadist targets in the area in recent months, with the military on October 23 announcing the killing of senior Al-Qaeda leader Abdul Hamid al-Matar ... of what was once Al-Qaeda’s franchise in Syria.
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Death of Isis leader during US raid in Syria spells trouble for Turkey

The Independent 04 Feb 2022
The leader of the Islamic State - Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi - was killed during a US raid on his home in Atmeh, northwest Syria, on Thursday ... It is headed by Abu Mohammad al-Golani, ex-leader of the Al Qaeda branch in Syria.

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