Al Qaeda

While not democracy in the American image, the Arab Spring has the potential to bring Islamists into conflict with jihadists.

A critical analysis of statements by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri reveal a fragmented and weakened Al Qaeda disguising its internal incoherence and lack of appealing strategic and political...

The study demonstrates the naivety of a superpower that allows an alleged ally to receive billions of dollars with which Pakistan financed groups that kill American soldiers almost on a daily basis.

Algeria’s bloody siege of the Amenas facility was a necessary first shot in an oncoming regional problem, as groups both criminal and ideological groups seek sources of income...

True to its name, Syed Saleem Shahzad’s Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban goes beyond the common misperception of Al-Qaeda as a static organization serving the whims of Osama Bin Laden.

This fight is different from any that have come before between these two adversaries.

From the outset, the U.S. treated Al Qaeda as a military objective instead of an organization to be understood, penetrated, and permanently dismantled. 

Spencer Ackerman provides a good first summation of an extended, coordinated attack that killed the US Ambassador to Libya at the Danger Room blog.

A look at the war and how the administrations have prosecuted it.

A look back at al Qaeda after 10 years of war.

The inside story of 9/11 and the war against al Qaida.

West Point's Combating Terrorism Center publishes 17 declassified Bin Laden documents with accompanying analysis.