Hamza bin Laden, son of Osama bin Laden, believed dead – reports
US reported to have had a hand in death of heir to al-Qaida ‘sometime in past two years’Osama bin Laden’s son, Hamza, who was trying to lead an al-Qaida resurgence, is believed dead, according to US...
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The son of Osama bin Laden, Hamza was seen as an ‘emerging’ figure in al-Qaida before reports of his deathOsama bin Laden’s son, Hamza, is believed to be dead, according to reports out of the US. He...
View ArticleHamza bin Laden: the end of a dynasty, but not al-Qaida
Osama bin Laden’s son was being groomed to be new leader of group responsible for 9/11 For most of the decade that followed the 9/11 attacks in 2001, hardly a day passed without news about al-Qaida. In...
View ArticleNo longer does al-Qaida grab the headlines. That might be the plan | Jason Burke
The death of Osama bin Laden’s son should make us focus on the group’s new modus operandiDo you remember al-Qaida? Not the al-Qaida of today that no one pays any attention to, but the one of a decade...
View ArticleTrump confirms US has killed Osama bin Laden's son Hamza
Death of son of the al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was reported but not confirmed in JulyDonald Trump confirmed on Saturday that the US has killed Hamza bin Laden, a...
View ArticleThe Guardian view on Baghdadi’s death: not enough to destroy Islamic State |...
The sociology of violence espoused by Isis will only be defeated by a political project that transcends the religious, nationalist and ethnic schisms in the regionAt the end of June 2014 Abu Bakr...
View ArticleExperience: I made bombs for al-Qaida
In 1998, two US embassies were bombed, killing 200 Africans. I no longer wanted to be part of itI grew up in Saudi Arabia, the youngest of six brothers. By the time I was 13, I had lost both my...
View ArticleThe Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad review – recent...
Thomas Hegghammer delivers a meticulously researched account of a charismatic IslamistAbdallah Azzam is not exactly a household name – at least when compared with the far more notorious Osama bin...
View ArticleJoe Biden advised against Osama bin Laden raid, Barack Obama writes
The then vice-president suggested Obama wait before ordering the mission that killed the al-Qaida leader in 2011, new memoir says• Obama: ‘Americans spooked by black man in White House’ led to Trump...
View Article'To give him space': Biden reveals why he told Obama to wait on Bin Laden raid
President-elect in new CNN film tells of agonized discussions but says he subsequently advised Obama to follow his instinctJoe Biden has revealed why he advised Barack Obama to wait to order the raid...
View ArticleThe day before 9/11: what was life like before the world changed?
The age of Big Brother and famous football victories seems like another time. But did the terrorists’ planes, as it seemed, really come out of nowhere?There is always an eeriness in the archives of...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden review – how the son of a brickie became...
Peter Bergen’s thoroughly researched biography of the notorious Islamist reveals his strikingly mundane, human sideJust over 10 years ago, US special forces killed Osama bin Laden in the house in...
View ArticleAl-Qaida: the terror group that learned the secret of longevity
Twenty years after 9/11, 33 years after it was first conceived, and against all the odds, the terrorist group survivesIn the summer of 1988, a dozen or so men gathered in the sweltering Pakistani...
View ArticleLives lost, poverty, an arms race, rights destroyed … the continuing cost of...
The US has now spent $8 trillion over 20 years in its response to the attacks. But the true price has been more than financialSuccessive US administrations since 2001 have spent $8tn – that’s to say...
View ArticleTV tonight: Martin Clunes in a true-crime drama about a case that haunted the...
A tense ITV drama serial follows the desperate, seemingly endless hunt for the so-called Night Stalker. Plus, David Beckham’s rise to stardom. Here’s what to watch this eveningContinue reading...
View ArticleFrom a Thatcher nutcracker to a Trump toilet brush: my curious collection of...
As a foreign correspondent I used to report on dictators and democrats. Now I collect them‘Emmanuel Macron? No, we have nothing at all. People were happy for a day or two after he was elected, but now...
View ArticlePrince Charles accepted £1m from family of Osama bin Laden, report claims
Future king allegedly accepted donation for his charity in 2013 but Clarence House disputes the claimsThe Prince of Wales received a £1m donation for his charity from relatives of Osama bin Laden,...
View Article'Justice has been delivered': al-Qaida leader killed in US drone strike,...
US President Joe Biden has announced the top al-Qaida leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has been killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan. The US president described the death of al-Zawahiri, who was...
View ArticleWho was Ayman al-Zawahiri? The al-Qaida leader who helped plot its deadliest...
A lifelong jihadist who became Osama bin Laden’s successor, Zawahiri waged a long war of terror against the US and its alliesReport: Ayman al-Zawahiri: al-Qaida leader killed in US drone...
View ArticleAyman al-Zawahiri obituary
Founder of al-Qaida with Osama bin Laden who went on to succeed him as its leaderAfter nearly two decades in hiding, the Egyptian terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri, successor to Osama bin Laden as head of...
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