US airstrike in Syria kills senior operative of al-Qaeda affiliate
Jan 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it killed a senior operative of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group in an airstrike in northwest Syria on Thursday. The airstrike, part of an ongoing effort to disrupt and degrade militant groups in the region, resulted in the death of Muhammad Salah al-Za'bir of the Hurras al-Din group, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
U.S. kills dozens of ISIS, al Qaeda-linked fighters in pair of major Syria airstrikes
U.S. forces in recent days carried out a pair of major airstrikes across Syria, killing key terrorist figures and dozens of fighters linked to the Islamic State and al Qaeda, the Pentagon said Sunday in a statement. U.S. Central Command said the first strike, on Sept. 16, targeted an Islamic State training camp in central Syria. At least 28 ISIS fighters were killed, including four senior leaders, military officials said. On Sept. 24, CENTCOM said it targeted the terror group Hurras al-Din, an al Qaeda affiliate, in northwest Syria. That...
Walz administration awarded $2 million to Muslim group fundraising for al Qaeda-linked charity
EXCLUSIVE — Under Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), the state of Minnesota awarded over $2 million to an Islamic group that fundraises for a charity linked to an al Qaeda affiliate, according to funding records reviewed by the Washington Examiner. The Islamic Association of North America, the recipient of the state grants from 2019 to 2024, is fundraising after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel last year for Rahma Worldwide, a Michigan-based charity that says it is shipping humanitarian aid to Gaza, according to flyers. In a since-deleted Facebook post in...
Some young Americans on TikTok say they sympathize with Osama bin Laden
Dozens of young Americans have posted videos on TikTok this week expressing sympathy with Osama bin Laden, the notorious terrorist who orchestrated the September 11 attacks, for a two-decade-old letter he wrote critiquing the United States, including its government and support of Israel.
Bin Laden's Letter to US Stuns Young Americans: 'He Was Right'
A decades-old document allegedly written by Osama bin Laden and titled "Letter to America" recently went viral on TikTok, with some young Americans believing that the al-Qaeda founder made valid points about their own country.
The two-page document, which was published by The Guardian, is a letter Bin Laden wrote in 2002 as a polemic against the U.S. and an explanation of the ideology that led him to orchestrate the 9/11 attacks.
TikTok will remove calls to read Osama bin Laden's 'Letter to America,' says it 'clearly' promotes terrorism
TikTok will remove videos promoting Osama bin Laden's infamous pro-terrorism "Letter to America," citing violations of its rules on supporting any form of terrorism.
The anti-American and antisemitic letter went viral this week after being unearthed by social media users, prompting Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisc., to call for a ban on TikTok, but the company has since taken action.
Court hears secretly recorded phone call between Pope Francis, top Cardinal
Pope Francis was secretly recorded during a phone call with one of his former top cardinals discussing the Holy See’s payments to free a nun held hostage by al-Qaeda-linked militants in northern Africa.
In a shocking legal move, the recorded phone call between Pope Francis and Cardinal Angelo Becciu — one of 10 defendants in an ongoing embezzlement trial — was played before the Vatican court.
Al Qaeda Leader Killed by US Drone Strike
Al Qaeda leader Zawahri's death and questions that need answers
President Biden gave a rare primetime address Monday night to announce that the CIA, on his orders, conducted a drone strike that killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri. Zawahri is a longtime radical Islamist leader who succeeded Usama bin Laden as head of al Qaeda in 2011 and masterminded the deadly terrorist attacks against the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
Inside the decades-long quest to kill al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri
US intelligence had hunted al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri for decades — then spent several months meticulously planning his death once he was traced to Afghanistan, where he was put up as a guest of the ruling Taliban following the disastrous US withdrawal last year.
The coward who co-planned the Sept. 11 attacks had become the world’s most wanted terrorist soon after his cohort, Osama bin Laden, was killed in a daring US raid in May 2011 — with a $25 million bounty on his head.