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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TopicAl-Qaeda

Topic: al-Qaeda

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

Glen Carey -
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

Srijan Shukla -
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

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

India’s ‘knockout blues’ rule newspaper headlines and ‘Congress is over’ declares Arnab

Simrin Sirur -
Your daily news capsule.

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

PTI -
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

Christian Taylor -
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

Snehesh Alex Philip -
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

PTI -
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

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

US has moved new resolution, but Masood Azhar unlikely to be blacklisted anytime soon

Nayanima Basu -
China's vote is crucial for the listing to go through but without a timeline, even that may take years. 
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Opinion

The speech PM Modi should deliver this Independence Day

Sagarika Ghose -
For the last 11 years, Nehru has been constantly blocking my efforts and causing the fiascos that are my many yojanas and abhiyans. He is the reason most of my initiatives turn into disasters.

Mumbai fashion weeks need a revamp. Not Dharavi & Girgaon

Caged parrot or fearless eagle? India should give the Shastri formula a try

Economy

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

Sampurna Panigrahi -
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Defence

Can’t restrict ‘extent of induction’—why SC struck down gender quotas in Army’s JAG recruitment

Javaria Rana -
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian Army cannot cap the number of women in its Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch...

National Interest

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Shekhar Gupta -
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.

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