Al-Qaeda

The leader of HTS, after rejecting the pseudonym that has followed him for years – “Al-Jolani” is a Syrian alias referencing his origins and means “one from Jawlan,” the Arabic name for the Golan Heights – is making a clear and direct effort to define himself, particularly for the West.

A rare inside account of the Taliban authorities' impact on Afghan women hits screens next week with the smartphone-filmed documentary "Bread & Roses."

An Afghan delegation will attend the upcoming U.N. climate change summit in Azerbaijan, the foreign ministry spokesman told AFP on Saturday, marking a first since the Taliban government came to power.

The Taliban have introduced a new rule restricting Afghan women from hearing each other's voices, an additional step toward erasing women's presence in public life, as reported by the New York Post. Taliban Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Khalid Hanafi, reportedly decreed that women must not be able to hear one another's voices, even during prayer.

The National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has apprehended Ahmet Baykara, a member of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, in an operation conducted in an unspecified African country after identifying his involvement in terror attacks targeting Turkish military bases in Syria.

A year after the slaughter of October 7, a month before the US elections, the world is near the point of no return. Humanity was already having to deal with the economic fallout of the pandemic when Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022.

We haven't begun to understand how our lives will change after Israel's attack on Hezbollah, killing scores and injuring thousands of the organization's members in their homes, offices and cars in Lebanon last month.

Today marks the 23rd anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon. On that fateful day, the terrorist group Al-Qaeda, led by Osama bin Laden, carried out a coordinated assault by hijacking four civilian airplanes.

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers celebrated three years in power on Wednesday with a military parade paying homage to their homemade bombs used in war, fighter aircraft and goose-stepping security forces.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the main plotter in al-Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has agreed to plead guilty, the Defense Department has said.

He and two accomplices, Walid Bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, are expected to enter the pleas at the military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as soon as next week.