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Masked Somali national army (SNA) soldiers search through homes for al-Shabaab fighters during an operation in Ealsha Biyaha, Somalia, on June, 2, 2012. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Key Somali terror leader killed by local forces, days after Navy SEAL’s death

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

The flow of battle-hardened jihadis fleeing the black banners of the Islamic State in the face of the coalition onslaught in Syria and Iraq, seeking to rejoin their brothers in arms in al Qaeda, is already underway, a top national security analyst said. (Associated Press/File)

ISIS, al Qaeda in talks for terror merger

By Carlo Muñoz and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Yemeni officials say suspected US drone kills al-Qaida men

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Arming the Terrorists Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Anti-terror campaign must be redefined

By James A. Lyons

The growing strength and threat to the U.S. homeland of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula led the Trump administration to launch a SEAL Team 6 ground assault in January to kill AQAP's leadership and capture intelligence. (Associated Press)

ISIS terror attacks on West inspire al Qaeda branch

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

The al Qaeda-affiliated militant group Levant Liberation Committee spearheaded an assault against Syrian government positions last week. (Associated Press)

Al Qaeda comeback widens terror war for Donald Trump

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Smoke billows from the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York after airplanes crashed into both towers, Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Gene Boyars) ** FILE **

Iowa State University professor assigns historical account of 9/11 from al Qaeda’s perspective

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

This frame grab from video provided on Tuesday March 21, 2017, by Ahrar al-Sham, Syrian militant group outlet that is consistent with independent AP reporting, shows fighters from Ahrar al-Sham militant group fire during a battle against the Syrian government forces, in an eastern neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. Syrian government forces launched a counter-attack against rebels in Damascus on Tuesday, following a rebel suicide car bombing and another insurgent assault earlier in the day in the country's capital, media reports said. (Ahrar al-Sham, Syrian militant group, via AP)

Al Qaeda quietly gaining territory in Syria amid ISIS fight

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, thick smoke billows into the sky from the area behind the Statue of Liberty, lower left, where the World Trade Center towers stood. A bill passed by Congress allowing the families of 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi government has reinforced to some in the Arab world a long-held view that the U.S. only demands justice for its own victims of terrorism, despite decades of controversial U.S. interventions around the world. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer, File)

Families of 9/11 victims sue Saudi Arabia, accuse country of funding al Qaeda

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

The Brooklyn Bridge spans the East River from Brooklyn into Manhattan, as seen from Brooklyn Bridge Park, Thursday, June 30, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Iyman Faris, Brooklyn bridge terror plot, should lose U.S. citizenship : Justice Department

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Harun is shown. Harun, an admitted al-Qaida fighter, has been convicted in New York on Thursday, March 16, 2017, of federal terrorism charges for participating in a fierce firefight in Afghanistan that left two U.S. servicemen dead. (U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York via AP)

As Trump touts Guantanamo, civilian prosecutors notch wins

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press

US airstrikes kill former Guantanamo detainee in Yemen

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Yemen officials see latest US strikes as sustained operation

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Men stand on the rubble of a house destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. At least one Saudi-led airstrike near Yemen's rebel-held capital killed at least five people on Wednesday, the country's Houthi rebels and medical officials said. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) ** FILE **

Series of U.S. airstrikes target al Qaeda positions in Yemen

By Ahmed Al-haj - Associated Press

Wave of US airstrikes target al-Qaida in Yemen

By AHMED AL-HAJ and LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 14, 2016 file photo, a Syrian man carries a carpet through a devastated part of the town of Palmyra as families load their belongings onto buses in the central Homs province in Syria. Syrian media says a pair of attacks on two security locations in the central Syrian city of Homs killed at least 30 people. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

In a blow, twin attacks on Syrian security kill at least 32

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

This undated handout photo from the Al-Karama Foundation, a Geneva-based non-governmental human rights organization, shows Abdullah Mabkhout al-Ameri, left, next to a child, in Yakla, Yemen. Al-Ameri and several family members including a son who belonged to al-Qaida were killed in a Jan. 29, 2017, US raid in the village. The raid, which left at least 25 Yemenis dead and a US Navy Seal, showed how difficult it is to tell who is al-Qaida in a country where the militants are mingled with tribes and are fighting on the same side as the government against the rebels. (Farouk al-Sharani, Al-Karama Foundation, via AP)

Pro-government tribal leader among dead in U.S. raid in Yemen

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Pentagon: Airstrikes in Syria killed 11 al-Qaida operatives

By Associated Press - Associated Press

US releases video from Yemen raid but footage is dated

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press