Tag: Al Qaeda

Leader’s Death Is Another Blow for ISIS, but It’s Hardly the End

Leader’s Death Is Another Blow for ISIS, but It’s Hardly the End

BEIRUT, Lebanon — For a man who sought to disappear, the leader of the Islamic State seemed to have done…

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U.S. Commando Raid in Syria Targets a Senior Jihadist Figure

U.S. Commando Raid in Syria Targets a Senior Jihadist Figure

U.S. Special Operations forces carried out what the Pentagon called a “successful” counterterrorism mission in northwest Syria early on Thursday.…

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Biden Administration Rejects Use of Testimony Obtained From Torture in Guantánamo Trial

Biden Administration Rejects Use of Testimony Obtained From Torture in Guantánamo Trial

Mr. Nashiri’s lawyers were exploring a potential defense theory that the United States had already killed plotters of the Cole…

Politics
20 Years Later, the Story Behind the Guantánamo Photo That Won’t Go Away

20 Years Later, the Story Behind the Guantánamo Photo That Won’t Go Away

GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Four months to the day after the Sept. 11 attacks, a photographer hoisted a camera above…

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