Sentences with phrase «terrorist group al»

11 September: A series of coordinated attacks on America is carried out by terrorist group al - Qaeda using four commercial passenger planes.

The joint CIA — Saudi intelligence operation to stop this latest attack, orchestrated by Yemen - based Sunni terrorist group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), coincides with several other significant terrorism - related developments of the past week.

In Somalia, the terrorist group al - Shabaab take in at least $ 38 million a year by felling trees illegally and burning them into charcoal.

Today marks the 16th year of The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al - Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

Not exact matches

Strikes can achieve short - term goals like killing leaders of terrorist groups such as al - Qaida in the Arabian Peninsular leader Jalal Baleedi in Yemen.

President Trump has called out Pakistan for continuing to provide safe haven for jihadist groups such as the Taliban, which in turn supports al Qaeda and other global terrorist groups.

Meanwhile, Iraq's beleagured president Nouri al - Maliki accused the organisation of trying to destroy the «centuries - old heritage» of Christians in Iraq, he said: «What is being done by the Daesh terrorist gang [ISIS] against our Christian citizens in Ninevah province, and their aggression against the churches and houses of worship in the areas under their control, reveals beyond any doubt the extremist criminal and terrorist nature of this group, he said.

«Most prominent, and most harmful, obviously, has been the rise of international terrorist groups such as Daesh [ISIS, also known as ISIL], al - Qaida, al - Shabaab, Boko Haram.

Despite top terrorist groups» affiliation - sometimes tenuous - with al Qaeda, some do not fit the mold created by its former head, bin Laden, and current leader, Ayman al - Zawahri, said Benjamin, the former State Department counterterrorism coordinator.

It may very well be true that, as many neoconservative intellectuals have argued, al - Qaeda and other terrorist groups were emboldened by American military fecklessness throughout the 1990s.

The Jordanian government has confirmed that Muadh al Kasabeh, who was captured by ISIS when his plane crashed in Syria, has been executed by the terrorist group.

It states al Qaeda's power is being eroded and that most terrorists groups are trying to advance their political agenda, not bin Laden's dream of a Muslim - Christian holy war.

Newspapers covered the story of Gracia and Martin Burnham, Bible translators with an organization called New Tribes in the Philippines, who were kidnapped in May 2001 by Abu Sayyaf, a terrorist group aligned with al - Qaeda (see Eliza Griswold's brilliant profile of the Burnhams in the New Republic, June 4, 2007).

Think of terrorist groups and insurgencies, such as al - Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Taliban.

For his research, Hamm defines a lone wolf terrorist by four characteristics: a person who perpetrates political violence, does not belong to (but often identifies with) an organized group such as al - Qaeda, acts alone (as opposed to the pair of Boston Marathon bombers), and does not commit violence out of grief or the pursuit of profit, vengeance or fame.

«Al - Qaida is as powerful as they are because of cyber,» Hunker said, noting that prior to the Internet, a group like al - Qaida might have stayed a small, local terrorist organization.

On - going wars: Less than a month after 9/11, U.S. troops invaded Afghanistan in an attempt to dismantle al - Qaeda, the terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the attacks, and remove the Taliban government.

Screen - printed black text on bright green, the memo requests a review of the «al Qida network» (eight months before 9/11) and inquires about funding groups in opposition to «the Taliban / al Qida,» such as the Afghan Northern Alliance, the perceived «threat magnitude» from the terrorist network, and the Bush administration's intended strategy.

In it, Farrow called on social networks like Twitter and Facebook to «do more to stop terrorists from inciting violence,» and argued that if these platforms screen for things like child porn, they should do the same for material that «drives ethnic conflict,» such as calls for violence from Abu Bakr al - Baghdadi, the leader of the Jihadist group known as ISIS.