by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 2, 2017 | World
London– At the time when September 11 attacks on New York and Washington occurred, Osama bin Laden was hiding in an Afghan cave, unable to get a decent TV satellite signal and was forced to follow up the developments on the radio. Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 15, 2017 | World
The ISIS terrorist group claimed it has seized Osama bin Laden’s infamous Tora Bora mountain hideout in eastern Afghanistan, saying its signature black flag was flying over the hulking mountain range. ISIS announced its alleged capture in an audio recording that...
by Mounir al-Manawri | Jan 21, 2017 | Features
Washington – One day after CIA released millions of classified pages online, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) rushed to release the fourth and final batch or al-Qaeda correspondence, which were found by U.S. soldiers in 2011. The 49...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 11, 2016 | World
London – Son of former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden threatened to revenge his father’s death against the U.S. According to SITE Intelligence Group, an organization that tracks extremist groups online, Hamza bin Laden promised to continue the fight against U.S. and...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jun 19, 2016 | Opinion
Most of what is written and said about “extremist Islamists” today is very different from what was written about them in the recent past. Most western commentators and the majority of Arab intellectuals used to classify extremist groups like Al-Qaeda as movements that...
