Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic... Wikipedia

• Active:  August 11, 1988 – present
• Founder:  Osama bin Laden
• Leaders:  Osama bin Laden, (1988–2011), Ayman al-Zawahiri, (2011–2022), Saif al-Adel, (de facto, 2022–present)
• Preceded by:  Maktab al-Khidamat
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo