Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda’s historian Mustafa Hamed resumes digital activity in Tehran

Riyadh - Muslimchronicle

Al-Qaeda’s most prominent historian and Afghan-Arab, strategist Mustafa Hamed, aka Abu al-Walid al-Masri, emerged from Tehran to resume his activity in lecturing radical groups via his website Mafa. Abu al-Walid, Osama bin Laden’s and Ayman al-Zawahiri’s friend, willingly left Qatar in 2016 and went to Tehran to live there with his children. Abu al-Walid, who was Al-Jazeera’s correspondent in KandaharRead more

President eyes amnesty under 'national consensus' law

Bamako - Muslimchronicle

Mali will adopt a law on "national consensus" that may amnesty rebels who took part in a revolt in 2012, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said in a New Year's speech. Keita, in a nationwide message late Sunday, said the law would draw on a so-called charter for peace, unity and national reconciliation, which he received in June as the outcome of aRead more

Al-Qaeda figurehead Hamza bin Laden mourns death of oldest son Osama

Sanaa - Muslimchronicle

Various social media users shared late Sunday a letter written by al-Qaeda figurehead Hamza bin Laden mourning the death of his eldest son, named Osama after his notorious terrorist grandfather. The letter was addressed to Hamza's mother, Khairiah Sabar, and his sisters. It read: “To my dear mother, may God protect and care for her, and to my dear brothers,Read more

Fierce fighting kills dozens in northwest Syria

London - Muslimchronicle

Intense fighting killed dozens of people on the edge of the last Syrian province entirely outside government control as aid workers completed a series of medical evacuations from another rebel-held area on Friday. Government and allied forces backed by Russian warplanes took on mostly jihadist fighters in an area straddling the border between Idlib and Hama provinces. The fighting, which could signalRead more

We have recordings that prove Qatar-Qaeda links

Doha - Muslimchronicle

The Libyan army’s leadership announced in a press conference on Wednesday that it has recordings of conversations that prove substantial cooperation between al-Qaeda members and Qatar. Libyan Armed Forces spokesman, Colonel Ahmad al-Mesmari, added that the recordings confirm Doha’s support for terrorist organizations through finances and weaponry, in order to carry out terrorist operations against the Libyan army. Al-Mesmari saidRead more

Yemen's Saleh: the ex-president who clung to power

Sanaa - Muslimchronicle

Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was killed on Monday, ruled the Arabian Peninsula country for more than three decades, remaining a key player long after his 2012 resignation. Adept at navigating Yemen's complex politics, he survived civil war, rebellion in the north, an Al-Qaeda insurgency in the south and a June 2011 bomb attack on his palace that woundedRead more

UK suspends Syria aid program after funds ‘paid to extremists’

London - Muslimchronicle

The British government has suspended a major aid program in Syria following an investigation by the BBC that revealed extremists had co-opted some of the funds. The Foreign Office has been a major contributor to a $20 million project, Access to Justice and Community Security (AJACS), which supports community police work in Syria. But a BBC Panorama program set toRead more

Drone kills 7 Al-Qaeda suspects in southern Yemen

ADEN - Muslimchronicle

A drone strike has killed seven suspected members of Al-Qaeda in southern Yemen, a security official said on Sunday. The US is the only force known to operate armed drones over Yemen. The official said an overnight drone attack, “likely American,” targeted three vehicles on the road from the southern province of Shabwa to the central province of Bayda, killingRead more