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Afghan refugees walk through an Afghan refugee camp at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, New Jersey, on Sept. 27, 2021. 
Refugees
6 months after evacuation, thousands of Afghan families are waiting to reunite
Afghan women march and hold signs in rally
Afghanistan
Afghan women sidelined under new Taliban rule: ‘This country places no value on me as a woman’
In this image made from video, Rwandan policemen patrol near the Amarula Palma hotel in Palma, Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021.
20 years after 9/11, global terror threats persist in Africa
A Taliban fighter lays his AK-47 rifle down during Friday prayers at a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. 
Sacred Nation
Taliban’s ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ is based on specific ideology
A man is shown hugging a woman who is looking into the camera with empty stadium seats in the distance.
Extremism
Post-9/11, Europe’s weak spots make it a target for extremists
A man is shown wearing military fatigues and holding a gun with cement barriers nearby.
Top of The World
First commercial flight leaves Kabul
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is shown looking to his right while walking and wearing a dark face mask with a solider stands in the distance.
Top of The World
US top diplomats visit Persian Gulf to reassure allies
Afghan people are seen near the building where insurgents were hiding during an attack to the prison in the city of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
How will the Taliban interact with militant groups like ISIS-K and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan?
A large crowd of people are shown standing, packed in a line with a blue-sided building in the background.
Top of The World
The Taliban are expected to announce a new government
A young boy is shown with his right hand up to his face shielding the sun with armored military vehicles shown in the distance.
Afghanistan’s arc from 9/11 to today: Once hopeful, now sad
Afghan women walk by posters of Taliban leaders and flags in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 25. 2021.
Afghanistan
Chaos in Afghanistan creates power vacuum for ISIS, al-Qaeda to reorganize, counterterrorism expert says
Several US military personnel are show standing guard next to the runways of the Kabul airport with two large military vehicles in the distance.
Afghanistan
How the Kabul airport went from calm to chaos
Several Taliban fighters are shown standing around a large wooden table with one man sitting down.
Conflict
Chaos as thousands flee Afghanistan after Taliban takeover
Thousands of families have been forced to leave their homes in Afghanistan over the past few months as fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security forces intensified.
Global Politics
Afghans in a city under siege by the Taliban: ‘The insecurity has upended our lives’
A group of men, mostly white, march with a US flag along a bridge.
Extremism
The Proud Boys right-wing group disbands in Canada
Doreen Oport, who was injured in the attack on the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya in 1998, stands outside the US Supreme Court after oral arguments in Washington, Feb. 24, 2020.
The State Dept. is nearing a deal over 1998 terrorism victims. But can Sudan pay it?
A policeman wears a black uniform
Extremism
After most recent attack, should US negotiate with al-Shabab?
A man wearing a T-shirt with an image of Zakir Rashid Bhat in India's Kashmir region
Conflict
Al-Qaeda is stronger today than it was on 9/11
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is shown looking to his right and wearing a dark suit with a blue map of the globe behind him.
Foreign policy
Post-9/11 law could allow president to bypass Congress to wage war with Iran
India's Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale is shown wearing a blue suit and speaking into a microphone with Indian flags behind him.
India launches airstrike inside Pakistan; Islamabad denies militant camp hit
US troops are shown in the near ground with a helicopter flying in the background.
Conflict & Justice
US committed to pulling foreign forces out of Afghanistan
Conflict
The group behind Nairobi’s recent terror attack recruits young people from many faiths. Officials can’t stop it.
A man sits on a couch in his living room.
Global Politics
‘Maybe we need more God in prisons’ to curb radicalization, says one former extremist
The keyboard of a computer is pictured at a computer shop, Oct. 19, 2017.
British Parliament wants to shut down extremist content online — at what cost?
A TSA agent wears a black ribbon over his badge during a memorial service for a slain colleague.
Books
How the fight against terrorism has transformed America since 9/11
American-born Al Qaeda leader killed in Yemen
United States commits ground soldiers to battle militia in Uganda
Global Politics
How 9/11 prompted more young people to enter the military
Lieutenant Farhan al-Jassem.
Conflict
Weeks before his capture, this anti-ISIS fighter hoped for US help
A US leaflet from 2002 with a picture of Mullah Omar offering a $5m reward “for authentic information, that could lead to the arrest of Taliban, and al Qaeda leaders.”
Conflict
A former Taliban prisoner remembers Mullah Omar
Rafida Ahmed, lost her thumb during an attack by jihadi assailants in Bangladesh. Ahmed's husband, Avijit Roy, a Bangladesh-born U.S. citizen and blogger was killed in that attack.
Conflict
Another blogger — the third this year — is hacked to death in Bangladesh
A US Air Force MQ-1 Predator flies near the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California.
Conflict
Here’s why one former Taliban captive is calling for a halt to US ‘signature’ drone strikes
A man reacts at the site of an air strike in Sanaa on April 8, 2015.
Conflict
It’s hard getting out of Yemen — and even harder to get help if you live there
Wooden crosses are placed on the ground, symbolising the 147 people killed during an attack by gunmen at the Garissa University College.
Conflict
Kenyans take to the streets and social media to honor the victims of last week’s attack
A woman holding a rose prays during a Nairobi memorial vigil following an attack by gunmen at Kenya's Garissa University College.
Conflict
Targeting the militants of al-Shabab with airstrikes is easier said than done
A Kenyan security officer searches a boy for weapons before an Easter Sunday service at a Catholic church in Garissa, Kenya, on April 5, 2015. Somali Kenyans fear a crackdown following a massacre at the Garissa Univeristy by Somali militants.
Conflict
Somalis in Kenya brace for a backlash
A Kenya Defense Force soldier runs for cover during al-Shabab's attack on a university compound in Garissa on April 2, 2015.
Conflict
Al-Shabab are masters of terror — and masters of the media
The Boston Marathon bombing trial jury on Thursday saw the remains of a pressure-cooker bomb that prosecutors say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hurled at police during a gunfight four days after the bombing as well as jihadist files recovered from his laptop.
Justice
US prosecutors portray Boston Marathon bombing suspect as a radical extremist
An injured girl reacts as she is carried by a man out of a mosque which was attacked by a suicide bomber in Sanaa on March 20, 2015.
Conflict
Yemen’s capital is wracked by bombings targeting mosques
A screen shot from an "Average Mohamed" animated cartoon directed at 8- to 16-year-olds that debunks ISIS recruitment messages.
Global Politics
Meet ‘Average Mohamed,’ a gas station manager who’s using cartoons to fight ISIS recruitment
State of the Union 2015
Global Politics
What Obama didn’t mention in the State of the Union
Said and Cherif Kouachi, the gunmen who killed twelve people during their attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, are seen in an image from an amateur video shot in Paris January 7, 2015. The Kouachi brothers were the children of Algerian immigrants to Fr
Conflict
Here’s what ISIS recruiters and sexual predators have in common
Police officers secure access to a residential building during investigations in the eastern French city of Reims on January 8, 2015, after the shooting against the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper.
Conflict
How the Kouachi brothers fell through the cracks
French police patrol near the Eiffel Tower in Paris as part of the highest level of "Vigipirate" security plan after a shooting at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015.
Conflict
The Charlie Hebdo attack slipped past one of Europe’s most alert governments
A screenshot from a video released by al Qaeda on December 4, 2014, showing hostage, Luke Somers.
Conflict
A failed US hostage rescue attempt in Yemen raises more questions about US policy on hostages
A screenshot from a video released by al Qaeda on December 4, 2014, showing captured British-American photojournalist Luke Somers.
Conflict
A failed rescue attempt in Yemen may have put an American hostage at greater risk
Clean India campaign
Global Scan
Indian politicians exposed cleaning up garbage intentionally left for them
Smoke rises over Syrian town of Kobani after an airstrike, as seen from the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, October 18, 2014.
Conflict
Foreign fighters are joining jihadi groups in ‘unprecedented’ numbers
Reporter Laura Kasinof covering the inauguration of Yemeni President Abdurabbu Mansour Hadi, February 2012.
Conflict
How one woman stumbled into a violent uprising in Yemen
Homeland in Pakistan
Culture
The Pakistan in ‘Homeland’ is unrecognizable to this Pakistani author
This satirical t-shirt was one of many images posted on Twitter under the hashtag #MuslimApologies
Belief
Frustrated Muslims are ‘sorry for algebra’ and many other things
A man inspects a damaged site in what activists say was a US strike in Kfredrian, Idlib province, Syria, on September 23, 2014.
Conflict
Airstrikes in Syria may help — but their impact will be limited
The guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) launches a Tomahawk cruise missile against ISIS targets in Syria on September 23, 2014.
Conflict
The many reasons why ISIS will be hard to dislodge in Syria
Kashmiri men shout slogans praising Osama Bin Laden after funeral prayers for him in Srinagar May 6, 2011.
Business
With terrorism, as with business, it’s all about market share
Malala Yousafzai at the UN
Global Scan
Pakistan says it has captured the men who shot Malala in 2012
A police trooper stands at a checkpoint in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, where government forces and Shi'ite Muslim Houthi rebels signed an agreement this week to end a crisis that has seen weeks of sometimes bloody protests.
Conflict
The US war on ISIS will look a lot like the American role in Yemen and Somalia
A man purported to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the miltant group ISIS, during what would have been his first public appearance at a mosque in Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet.
Media
ISIS has mastered high-end video production in its new propaganda wing
A fighter from Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria earlier this year. Qatar has facilitated fundraising efforts to provide money and weapons to Islamic militants like Jabhat al-Nusra, which is al-Qaeda's branch in Syria.
Global Politics
How Qatar is placing its bets on militant terrorist groups
Nancy Curtis, mother of American writer Peter Theo Curtis, briefly answers reporters' questions outside her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts August 25, 2014. Al Qaeda-linked militants in Syria on Sunday freed Peter Theo Curtis, who has been missing since
Conflict
Peter Theo Curtis’ release raises questions about Qatari links with Syrian terrorists
People in the Syrian city of Tabqa toured the streets in celebration after Islamic State militants took over a government air base nearby on August 24, 2014.
Conflict
Washington is talking tough on ISIS, but its plans for intervention don’t seem to measure up