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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicAl-Qaeda

Topic: al-Qaeda

Jihadi groups in balkanised Syria have found the perfect place to train for global attacks

ISIS Caliphate may be over, but its ideology lives in Syria. And that helps jihadi groups recruit, thrive and plan attacks from Sri Lanka to Bangladesh.

Islamic State, al Qaeda hunker down to rebuild in weaker countries

IS is adapting, undermining security & economic prosperity in more countries as it establishes new bases. The threat is particularly acute in Africa.

Taliban controls & contests 65% of Afghanistan, as US gets desperate to withdraw troops

Analysts say that Taliban’s refusal to share power with the Kabul government essentially means that they will continue their ‘jihad’ against it.

Ajai Sahni on why Al Qaeda does not succeed in J&K, Deepak Nayyar on why Budget is disappointing

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

In its Kashmir video, Al-Qaeda asks terrorists to inflict unrelenting blows on Indian Army

The video was posted on As-Sahab channel, an in-house production of Al-Qaeda, used to relay the organisation's views to the world.

Al Qaeda recruited 40,000 new fighters since 9/11 attacks. Clearly, the US Army failed

Despite a US-led global “war on terror” that cost US$5.9 trillion, killed an estimated 480,000 to 507,000 people and assassinated bin Laden, al-Qaeda has grown and spread.

Intel warns of another Kashmir car bomb attack, this time where Zakir Musa was killed

The intel input identified two terrorists of the Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) as being involved in preparation of IEDs.

Normalcy returns to Kashmir after 2 days of shutdown due to Zakir Musa’s death

Zakir Musa was the head of an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Kashmir and was killed in an encounter with security forces in Pulwama.

India was of little value to ISIS. That’s all set to change now

Global jihad organisations like ISIS and al-Qaeda now believe they have a more ready audience in India for their brand of radicalisation.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.