
EXCLUSIVE – Israeli Nightmare: Islamic State vs. al-Qaeda in Gaza
TEL AVIV – An al-Qaeda affiliate in the Gaza Strip has claimed responsibility for Friday’s rocket attack on Israel.

TEL AVIV – An al-Qaeda affiliate in the Gaza Strip has claimed responsibility for Friday’s rocket attack on Israel.

Al Qaeda’s leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, released a new audio recording on Sunday, in which he called for an Islamist alliance against Russia and the West, and said his organization was ready to work with its previously despised offshoot ISIS against those common foes.

Pervez Musharraf, a retired four-star general and former president of Pakistan, said that terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, current al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri, jihadist group founder Jalaluddin Haqqani, and the Taliban were once heroes for Pakistan.

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Sky News reported last week that Iran has released five senior al-Qaeda operatives, including several possible successors to Ayman al-Zawahiri as head of the organization, in exchange for an Iranian diplomat who was kidnapped in Yemen earlier this year.

ISIS has released a video to commemorate–and celebrate–the 9/11 attacks. “We are back in America,” the terrorist nation declares, warning that Americans can expect another attack on the scale of what their godfathers in al-Qaeda pulled off on September 11, 2001, and promising to deliver “cars full of explosives and suicide bombers.”

Ayman al-Zawahiri, who took over as leader of al-Qaeda after the liquidation of Osama bin Laden, has released an audio message accusing ISIS leader and self-proclaimed “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of “sedition” and declaring war against the Islamic State.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is vanquishing Al Qaeda in the fight for the hearts and minds of jihadists, reports Foreign Policy (FP).

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) is disseminating “Wanted Dead” posters for several key al-Qaeda commanders, including the group’s leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Arutz Sheva reported.

In a sign that there could be dangerous times ahead for Afghanistan and the entire surrounding region, al-Qaeda chief Ayman al Zawahiri pledged allegiance to the newly-appointed Taliban “emir,” Mullah Akhtar Mohammed Mansour, in an audio tape released Thursday by the jihadist group.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has decimated al-Qaeda by taking its recruits and ripping it apart, reports The Guardian.

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