Secluded in his stronghold in southern Afghanistan, reclusive Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada is the cornerstone of the movement that has ruled the country unchallenged since reclaiming ...

a naturalized American who worked for an American consulting group and was arrested in his native Afghanistan in August 2022 after the U.S. drone strike that killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Instead of starting a war with Pakistan and giving it exactly what it wanted, the Manmohan Singh government worked to isolate ...

I was fortunate enough to attend the Thursday, January 10 Naples Philharmonic concert under Shelley's direction. The program ...

In a wide-ranging exit interview, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly asks Central Intelligence Agency director William Burns about the ...

In an exit interview with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, CIA Director William Burns says he still thinks "there's a chance" for a ...

The US and the UN came to the aid of the South while China supported North Korea’s actions. The fighting between the two sides ended in 1953 causing the deaths of over 3 million people on both ...

In 2016, during the address in which he supposedly broke with al Qaeda, Mr al-Sharaa expressed his gratitude to Ayman al-Zawahiri, who helped plan the 9/11 attacks and succeeded Osama bin Laden as ...

“Although al-Nusrah Front was formed by AQI in late 2011 as a front for AQI’s activities in Syria, recently al-Jawlani publicly pledged allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qa’ida’s leader,” the ...

It is part of their broader struggle to control the region’s oil and gas resources and roll back the influence of Russia, Iran and China in ... to Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahiri,” Osama bin Laden ...

Baghdadi wanted Jolani to report to him, while Jolani sought autonomy. The dispute was brought to Ayman al Zawahiri, Al Qaeda’s emir, who sided with Jolani. This disagreement ultimately led to ...