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A police officer and a soldier from Benin stop a motorcyclist at a checkpoint outside Porga, Benin, March 26, 2022. (AP Photo/ Marco Simoncelli, file)

Attacks by Islamic extremists are rampant in Africa’s Sahel. Here’s what we know about them

By Monika Pronczuk - Associated Press

Hundreds of people gather near a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane at the perimeter of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Shekib Rahmani) **FILE**

Ominous signs on a grim anniversary for U.S., Afghanistan

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden listens as Vice President Kamala Harris speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, May 13, 2024. With Biden ending his reelection bid and endorsing Harris, Democrats now must navigate a shift that is unprecedented this late in an election year. Democrats are set to hold their convention in Chicago in August. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Biden, Harris avoid comment on plea deals with 9/11 defendants

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Thick smoke billows into the sky from the area behind the Statue of Liberty, lower left, where the World Trade Center was, on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer, File)

Saudi Arabia seeks dismissal of claims it supported the Sept. 11 hijackers

By Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud rises as judges enters the courtroom of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 26, 2024, where judges delivered the verdict in the trial of the suspect accused of playing a key role in a reign of terror unleashed by al-Qaida-linked insurgents on the historic desert city of Timbuktu in northern Mali in 2012. Al Hassan could face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if convicted on charges including involvement in crimes including rape, torture, persecution, enforced marriages and sexual slavery. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

ICC convicts al Qaeda-linked leader of atrocities in Mali

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

A Taliban fighter checks an Islamic State group house that was destroyed in the ongoing conflict between the two in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Feb. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Terrorist groups regain strength in Afghanistan; Critics question Biden ‘over the horizon’ strategy

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - Mohammed Hassan Masto sits next to the grave of his brother Lutfi on May 7, 2023, in the village of Qorqanya, a rural area in northern Idlib province, Syria. Central Command said Thursday, May 2, 2024, an airstrike in Syria that was targeting an al-Qaida leader misidentified the intended target and killed Lutfi Hassan Masto instead. The investigation confirms early reports from residents and family members shortly after the attack. (AP Photo/Omar Albam, File)

U.S. airstrike targeting al Qaeda leader in Syria killed a farmer, American military says

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

FILE - Demonstrators hold a Ukrainian flag as they march outside of the White House in support of Ukraine during a rally in Washington, Feb. 25, 2023. One of the architects of the covert U.S. strategy against the Soviets in Afghanistan has published a new memoir. In “By All Means Available,” Michael Vickers calls on President Joe Biden’s administration to increase its support for Ukraine’s resistance against Russia. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

He was the CIA whiz kid in ‘Charlie Wilson’s War.’ His new book offers advice for U.S. in Ukraine

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

Militants of the al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham organization stand in front of a destroyed house in Atareb, Syria, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. The man known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al Sham, is trying hard to distance his group from its al-Qaida origins, spreading a message of pluralism and religious tolerance.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Syria’s main insurgent group seeks to move away from al-Qaida past, get off Western terrorism lists

By Ghaith Alsayed and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this Jan. 31, 2010 file photo, an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan on a moonlit night. Today, when U.S. intelligence agencies believe they know the location of a terrorist in Pakistan and a few other countries, they are largely free to deploy a weapon that's become the symbol of war on terror: an aerial drone. The drone drops a bomb or fires a missile that executes the suspect. University of Utah law professor Amos Guiora is pushing for another step before the U.S. government or military could decide to kill a terror suspect with a drone. In a proposal to be published in 2015, Guiora and a colleague are pushing for what they call a "drone court." The court would be part of the judiciary branch and hear arguments for why the United States should target a suspect with a drone strike. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

U.S. military says it targeted senior al-Qaida leader in Syria

Associated Press

A Taliban fighter stands guard as Afghan people attend Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, April 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) **FILE**

Enemy of my enemy: Taliban regime aligns with U.S. in killing of ISIS terrorist leader

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration on al Queda and Iran by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Are al Qaeda and Iran really at odds?

By Jonathan Schanzer

As seen on a computer screen from a DVD prepared by Al-Sahab production, Al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri speaks in Islamabad, Pakistan, on June 20, 2006. Al-Zawahiri, the top Al Qaeda leader, was killed by the U.S. over the weekend in Afghanistan. President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak about the operation on Monday night, Aug. 1, 2022, from the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash, File)

Over-the-horizon U.S. strike on terrorist raises fears of what’s being missed

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This video frame grab image provided by IntelCenter, a private terrorism analysis company, and taken from a video released on Friday Nov. 28, 2008, by the media arm of al QaEda, As-Sahab, shows Ayman al Zawahiri speaking in a video entitled "al-Azhar," or "The Lion's Den." Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader called on Americans to embrace Islam to overcome the financial meltdown, which he said was a consequence of the Sept. 11 attacks and militant strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/IntelCenter)

History As It Happens: Ayman al-Zawahiri and the future of al Qaeda

By Martin Di Caro