“I was born in Somalia, in Mogadishu,” Ibn Adam tells me as we start his interview in a Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) prison reception area. Ibn Adam is a big black 29-year-old Somali man. He’s got a ...
Mohammed Khalifa, also known as Abu Ridwan al-Kanadi, made headlines in 2019 when he was identified as the man who provided the English voiceovers for ISIS’s propaganda videos. Khalifa recently pled ...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Increasing numbers of English-language websites are spreading al-Qaida's message to Muslims in the West. They translate writings and sermons once largely out of reach of ...
NPR's counterterrorism correspondent Dina Temple-Raston talks to Melissa Block about the American-born imam Anwar al-Awlaki. Awlaki was apparently one of the inspirations for the Pakistani-American ...
Minh Quang Pham was accused of plotting a suicide bombing at Heathrow Airport in London in support of Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch. By Ed Shanahan Following Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, the Obama ...
A dead terrorist is a point for freedom. The Hellfire missile fired into Yemen last month from a CIA-operated drone did its job, splendidly, by swiftly eliminating two al Qaeda vipers, who are now ...
Could Anwar al-Awlaki be hiding in plain sight in Yemen? He certainly knows when and how to make an appearance. On Monday, Nov. 8, the Yemeni-American cleric released a video rallying his followers to ...
In Operation Troy, author Scott Shane details the life, death and influence of Anwar al-Awlaki. "His status as a martyr has given his message even... Drone Strike That Killed Awlaki 'Did Not Silence ...
Anwar al-Awlaki was born in New Mexico, educated in Colorado and spent years as a cleric in San Diego and suburban Washington, D.C. But in the past several years, he became a master al-Qaida ...
Last month, a handful of lawyers in the U.S. got a series of unexpected phone calls from Yemen. They came from an accomplished Yemeni academic and former government official, Dr. Nasser al-Awlaki. He ...
Four years ago, an American drone strike in Yemen killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born imam. It was a targeted attack; more than a year earlier, the Obama administration and the CIA had placed ...