Sources: BBC
At least 20 people are killed in attacks on six villages in Mali's Mopti Region by suspected jihadists linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, who also destroy property during the assaults. 2024-12-20
U.S. President Joe Biden announces that the United States will end their support for Saudi Arabia in their intervention in Yemen. However, he also said the United States will continue targeting al-Qaeda operations in the country. 2021-02-4
A drone strike kills four suspected Al-Qaeda militants in northern Yemen. 2015-09-12
The Democrat-controlled United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence releases a report critical of the post-September 11 Bush Administration-era CIA interrogation techniques used to extract intelligence from captured Al-Qaeda operatives. The Obama Administration places US embassies around the world on high alert. 2014-12-9
al-Qaeda launches an attack on the south Yemen town of al-Bayda killing at least four soldiers before being beaten back by the army. [http:--www.swissinfo.ch-eng-al-qaeda-attacks-south-yemen-town-of-al-bayda--four-soldiers-killed-41036720 (Swiss Info)]date=August 2019 2014-10-8
Gunmen in Kenya's port city of Mombasa kill Mohamed Idris, chairman of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya, who opposed the radical preachings of Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab insurgents. 2014-06-10
Authorities in Iraq say they have uncovered an Al-Qaeda plot to use chemical weapons, as well as to smuggle them to Europe and North America. 2013-06-1
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest and charge two men with plotting to disrupt a Toronto area train service in a plot claimed to be backed by al-Qaeda elements. 2013-04-22
Moroccan authorities arrest 27 people in an Al Qaeda-linked cell in Western Sahara for planning car bombings and suicide attacks on security forces, and bank robberies to finance their activities.[https:--www.nytimes.com-2011-01-06-world-africa-06morocco.html?_r=1&src=mv ("The New York Times")] [https:--www.npr.org-2011-01-05-132681227-morocco-says-it-dismantled-terrorist-cell (NPR)]date=August 2019 2011-01-6
Al-Qaeda reportedly free an Italian couple that they had been holding since December 2009. 2010-04-16