The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism, is a global military campaign initiated by the United States in response to the September 11 attacks in 2001. A global conflict spanning mult
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Tomahawk Missile fired from US Destroyers
US soldiers in Zabul province
al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Islamist jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-natio
Al-Qaeda militant in Sahel armed with a Type 56 assault rifle, 2012
Osama bin Laden (left) and Ayman Al-Zawahiri (right) photographed in 2001
Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir interviewing Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, 1997
Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian Islamic scholar and Jihadist theorist who inspired al-Qaeda