{"id":37869,"date":"2021-05-02T11:18:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T05:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=37869"},"modified":"2021-05-02T11:18:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T05:48:38","slug":"al-qaeda-has-vowed-to-wage-war-on-all-fronts-against-the-us-unless-it-retreats-from-the-entire-muslim-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=37869","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda has vowed to \u201cWage War on all Fronts\u201d Against the US Unless it Retreats from the Entire Muslim World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arab.news\/gdzx5\">Arab News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al-Qaeda has vowed to \u201c<em>wage war on all fronts<\/em>\u201d against the US unless it retreats from the entire Muslim world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking just days ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the assassination of the group\u2019s former leader Osama bin Laden, two of its operatives told CNN that it is planning a comeback in Afghanistan as the US withdraws. \u201c<em>The Americans are now defeated<\/em>,\u201d said Al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The militant group, now led by Ayman Zawahiri, has largely been eclipsed by Daesh in recent years in terms of attacks carried out and media exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presence of US forces in the Middle East has long been seized upon by militant groups \u2014 including Al-Qaeda, Daesh and Hezbollah \u2014 as a rallying cry for their causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier in April, US President Joe Biden announced that he would withdraw troops from Afghanistan, effectively ending America\u2019s longest-ever war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBin Laden is dead and Al-Qaeda is degraded in Afghanistan. And it\u2019s time to end the forever war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the withdrawal, the Taliban and the US have agreed in talks that the group will cut ties with Al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While its direct physical presence has declined since the death of Bin Laden on May 2, 2011, Zawahiri has overseen a diversification of its role in global jihadism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUnder Zawahiri\u2019s stewardship, Al-Qaeda has become increasingly decentralised, with authority resting primarily in the hands of Al-Qaeda\u2019s affiliate leaders,\u201d according to a recent report from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) think tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US has placed a $25 million bounty for Zawahiri, who features on its most-wanted-terrorist list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With inputs from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/arab.news\/gdzx5\">Arab News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arab News Al-Qaeda has vowed to \u201cwage war on all fronts\u201d against the US unless it retreats from the entire Muslim world. Speaking just days ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the assassination of the group\u2019s former leader Osama bin Laden, two of its operatives told CNN that it is planning a comeback in Afghanistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}