• Operation Defeat Al Qaeda in the North or OP DAN was an operation conducted by Marines, A co. 2/504th Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division,...
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    Al-Qaeda (/ælˈkaɪ(ə)də/ ; Arabic: القاعدة, romanized: al-Qāʿidah, lit. 'the Base', IPA: [alˈqaː.ʕi.da]) is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by...
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    that airstrikes targeting Al-Qaeda and the Taliban had begun in Afghanistan. Beyond the military actions in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom was also...
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  • al-Qaeda has five distinct phases in its development: its beginnings in the late 1980s, a "wilderness" period in 1990–1996, its "heyday" in 1996–2001...
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  • The following is a list of attacks which have been carried out by Al-Qaeda. On December 29, 1992, the first attack by Al-Qaeda was carried out in Aden...
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    as the second general emir of al-Qaeda from June 2011 until his death in July 2022. He is best known for being one of the main orchestrators of the September...
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    destroy al-Qaeda and Taliban forces. The operation took place in the Shah-i-Kot Valley and Arma Mountains southeast of Zormat. This operation was the first...
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    the official Syrian affiliate of al-Qaeda, after Emir Ayman al-Zawahiri rejected the forced merger attempted by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and ordered the dissolution...
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    were in the Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah organization founded by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi in 2004. The organization affiliated itself with Al-Qaeda, so IS...
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  • The Al-Qaeda–Islamic State conflict is an ongoing conflict between Al-Qaeda and its allied groups, and the Islamic State. On 8 April 2013, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi...
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  • Archived from the original on 18 March 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018. "Supporter by UAE, Arab Coalition starts 'Al Faisal Operation' against Al Qaeda strongholds"...
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    The Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen is an ongoing armed conflict between the Yemeni government, the United States and their allies, and al-Qaeda-affiliated...
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    "BREAKING: Al-Qaeda's deputy leader killed in Idlib drone strike". Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2017. "Syria's Qaeda leader...
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    12, 2021, stating: "Al-Qaeda has a new base of operations: it is the Islamic Republic of Iran." Al-Qaeda's de facto leader, Saif al-Adel, is currently...
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    Hamza bin Laden (category Al-Qaeda propagandists)
    al-Qaeda. He was a son of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and, following his father's death in 2011, he was described as an emerging leader of the al-Qaeda...
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    from the original on 25 April 2016. "The Giant Al Qaeda Defeat That No One's Talking About". Politico. 2 May 2016. "US puts boots on the ground in Yemen...
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    Operation Infinite Reach was the codename for American cruise missile strikes on al-Qaeda bases that were launched concurrently across two continents...
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    Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn, also known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), and al-Zarqawi was given the al-Qaeda title "Emir of Al Qaeda in the Country...
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    Jihad's Base in the land of two rivers'), more commonly known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq (Arabic: القاعدة في العراق, romanized: al-Qā'idah fī al-ʿIrāq, abbr....
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    of the latter tied to al-Qaeda. Several minor coalition members have pulled out of Iraq; this has been widely considered a political success for the anti-occupation...
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  • The Saddam–al-Qaeda conspiracy theory was based on false claims by the United States government alleging that a secretive relationship existed between...
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    Osama bin Laden (redirect from Amal al-Sada)
    who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, he participated in the Afghan jihad...
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  • in north west Afghanistan none of which resulted in enemy contact. Operation Trent, November 2001, A and G squadron of 22 SAS, attacked an Al Qaeda opium...
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    itself with al-Qaeda to eventually become al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). The Algerian and other Maghreb governments fighting the militants have...
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    officials have described Al-Qaeda attacks as "blowback" or an unintended consequence of American aid to the mujahideen. In response, the United States government...
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  • understood to be the de facto leader of al-Qaeda. Al-Adel fought the Soviets as an Afghan Arab before becoming a founding member of the al-Qaeda organization...
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    time of the attack, the U.S. had around 700 troops in Somalia, assisting local forces to defeat al-Shabaab, the burgeoning al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist...
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    Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, and the group became known as Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (commonly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq or Tanzim)...
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  • of the country since 2001 that came to haunt Pakistani state in an aftermath of 9/11 attacks. The al-Qaeda terrorists fled Afghanistan seek refuge in the...
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    Iraq War (redirect from The war in iraq)
    al-Masri the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq in a joint American and Iraqi operation near Tikrit, Iraq. The coalition forces believed al-Masri to be wearing a...
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