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FILE - In this in this 1998 file photo made available Friday, March 19, 2004, Ayman al-Zawahri speaks to the press in Khost, Afghanistan. On Wednesday, Sept, 11, 2019, Al-Qaeda leader al-Zawahri called on all Muslims to attack U.S., European, Israeli and Russian targets in a speech on the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. SITE Intelligence Group reports that in a video released by the militant group, al-Zawahri also criticized &quot;backtrackers&quot; from jihad. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File)

Al-Qaida chief in 9/11 speech calls for attacks on West

Associated Press

In this image released by the White House, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, Sunday, May 1, 2011. (AP Photo/The White House, Pete Souza)

Obama burned CIA asset who pinpointed bin Laden’s location in Pakistan

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A man enters the press area of the White House at dusk, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, in Washington. On Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, President Donald Trump tweeted he has called off a secret Camp David meeting with Taliban and Afghanistan leaders. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump says peace talks with Taliban are now ‘dead’

By ROBERT BURNS and DEB RIECHMANN and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Al-Qaida claims Pakistan detained wife of its chief Zawahiri

Associated Press

This photo provided by the activist-operated Thiqa News Agency, shows part of a Turkish military convoy heading toward the town of Khan Sheikhoun, a rebel-held northwestern town that's part of a government offensive on the country's last rebel stronghold, in Idlib province, Syria, Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. A Turkish military convoy carrying ammunition crossed into northern Syria Monday and moved south through rebel-held areas before it was stopped by airstrikes that struck near the highway where the convoy was moving, opposition activists said. (Thiqa News Agency via AP)

Militants leave key rebel town as Syrian troops push in

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Damaged Dubai City wedding hall is seen after an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug.18, 2019. A suicide-bomb blast ripped through a wedding party on a busy Saturday night. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

ISIS undercuts Donald Trump’s push for Afghan peace deal, troop withdrawal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019 photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian army soldiers flash the victory sign as they stand on a tank, in northwestern Syria. Syrian government forces captured five villages in the country's northwest early Wednesday, Aug 14, 2019 inching closer to a major rebel-controlled town that was the scene of a deadly 2017 chemical weapons attack, where thousands of people were fleeing their homes to safer area further north, a war monitor, opposition activists and state media reported. (SANA via AP)

Syrian troops push closer to major rebel-held northwest town

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Security forces inspect the site of a deadly attack in Aden, Yemen, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Yemen's rebels fired a ballistic missile at a military parade Thursday in the southern port city of Aden as coordinated suicide bombings targeted a police station in another part of the city. The attacks killed more than 50 people and wounded dozens. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Yemen officials: Al Qaeda kills at least 20 at military camp

By Ahmed Al-haj - Associated Press

According to a top prosecutor in the Mueller investigation, President Trump talked on an open line with his ambassador in Europe because he wanted Russian President Vladimir Putin to listen in. The special counsel concluded that he did not establish that a Trump-Moscow election conspiracy existed. (Associated Press/File)

Felix Sater, Trump associate, was invaluable FBI source, newly unsealed records show

By Jim Mustian - Associated Press

Trump associate proved invaluable FBI source, records show

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

US targets al-Qaida militants in northern Syria

Associated Press

Saudi coalition says head of Yemen’s Islamic State captured

By AYA BATRAWY and SAM MAGDY - Associated Press

Yemeni officials: Gunmen attack military, kill 3 soldiers

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Kashmiri villagers participate in the funeral procession of Zakir Musa, a top militant commander linked to al-Qaida, as it rains in Tral, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, May 24, 2019. Musa was killed Thursday evening in a gunfight after police and soldiers launched a counterinsurgency operation in the southern Tral area, said Col. Rajesh Kalia, an Indian army spokesman. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

India troops kill top Kashmir militant linked to al-Qaida

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

FILE - This file image taken Dec. 1, 2001, from television footage in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, shows John Walker Lindh, right, claiming to be an American Taliban volunteer. Lindh, the young Californian who became known as the American Taliban after he was captured by U.S. forces in the invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, is set to go free Thursday, May 23, 2019, after nearly two decades in prison. (AP Video, File)

AP Was There: American Taliban Fighter in US custody

By BURT HERMAN - Associated Press

Pages from a confidential whistleblower's report obtained by The Associated Press are photographed Tuesday, May 7, 2019, in Washington. Facebook likes to give the impression that it’s stopping the vast majority of extremist posts before users ever see them., but the confidential whistleblower’s complaint to the Securities and Exchange Commission alleges the social media company has exaggerated its success. Even worse, it shows that the company is making use of propaganda by militant groups to auto-generate videos and pages that could be used for networking by extremists. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Facebook auto-generates videos celebrating extremist images

By Desmond Butler and Barbara Ortutay - Associated Press

FILE- In this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo, Najibullah Zazi arrives at the offices of the FBI in Denver for questioning. Zazi, the ringleader of a thwarted terror plot to bomb the New York City subways in 2009 is about to find if becoming a government cooperator will pay off when he is sentenced on Thursday, May 2, 2019. His cooperation could earn him a far lighter punishment on charges that carry a maximum of life. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

The Latest: Would-be NYC bomber gets 10 year prison term

Associated Press

FILE- In this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo, Najibullah Zazi arrives at the offices of the FBI in Denver for questioning. Zazi, the ringleader of a thwarted terror plot to bomb the New York City subways in 2009 is about to find if becoming a government cooperator will pay off when he is sentenced on Thursday, May 2, 2019. His cooperation could earn him a far lighter punishment on charges that carry a maximum of life. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

Would-be NYC bomber gets 10 years in foiled al-Qaida plot

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

FILE- In this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo, Najibullah Zazi arrives at the offices of the FBI in Denver for questioning. Zazi, the ringleader of a thwarted terror plot to bomb the New York City subways in 2009 is about to find if becoming a government cooperator will pay off when he is sentenced on Thursday, May 2, 2019. His cooperation could earn him a far lighter punishment on charges that carry a maximum of life. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

Would-be subway bomber hopes for 2nd chance from cooperating

By TOM HAYS and JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

Illustration on strategies for the future of Afghanistan by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

The Battle of Afghanistan and the contest of wills

By Clifford D. May