The Taliban described the agreement as a constructive demonstration of resolving disputes through dialogue. The swap comes ...

Two Americans released by Taliban in final deal of Biden administration - US nationals released from Taliban detention ...

Amidst the fears of a full-scale Pakistan-Taliban war, a new report has emerged, claiming that the Afghan Taliban had struck ...

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 ...

In an exit interview with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, CIA Director William Burns says he still thinks "there's a chance" for a ...

Habibi vanished the same year following the U.S. killing of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, with the FBI suspecting he was detained by Afghan military or security forces, it added.

In 2016, during the address in which he supposedly broke with al Qaeda, Mr al-Sharaa expressed his gratitude to Ayman al-Zawahiri, who helped plan the 9/11 attacks and succeeded Osama bin Laden as ...

Baghdadi wanted Jolani to report to him, while Jolani sought autonomy. The dispute was brought to Ayman al Zawahiri, Al Qaeda’s emir, who sided with Jolani. This disagreement ultimately led to ...

He stated that many of the families of the Arab and other fighters were in Kabul, Kandahar ... Born in Egypt in 1951, Ayman al-Zawahiri, comes from a middle class family of doctors and scholars.

In our own times, Ayman al-Zawahiri—second general emir of al-Qaeda and a physician—was typical of the breed, with other representatives including George Habash of the Popular Front for the ...

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 ...