Ayman al Zawahiri is a Salafi-jihadist terrorist and the current head of Al Qaeda. Born in Egypt in 1951, Zawahiri originally trained as a physician before becoming involved in the Muslim Brotherhood. After the Egyptian government executed... Read more

Majid Khan is an Al Qaeda member who worked with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and participated in several high-profile operations. In 2003, he transported $50,000 from Pakistan to an Al Qaeda affiliate which was eventually used in the... Read more

Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez (1990-2015) was an Islamist extremist who opened fire at two military sites in Chattanooga, Tennessee on July 16, 2015, killing four Marines and a Navy sailor. Abdulazeez, a Kuwaiti-born U.S. national, is believed to... Read more

Mullah Mohammed Omar (1960-2013) was the founder of the Taliban. He was born in Khakrez, Afghanistan in 1960. Starting in 1994, the Taliban began to seize large parts of Afghanistan, and Mullah Omar was appointed as head... Read more

Najibullah Zazi is an Afghan-American who drove from his home in Colorado to New York City on September 9, 2009 with the intention of detonating explosives above the New York City subway during rush hour as part... Read more

Omar Shafik Hammami (1984-2013), aka Abu Mansoor al Amriki, was an American foreign terrorist fighter who traveled to Somalia to join al Shabaab. Hammami was raised as a Christian in Alabama and converted to Islam sometime during... Read more

Osama bin Laden (1957-2011) is perhaps the most influential and infamous terrorist leader in history. He originally became involved in the jihadist sphere when he traveled to Pakistan from his home in Saudi Arabia to help organize... Read more

Waheba Issa Dais was a Wisconsin-based Islamist extremist who hacked into Facebook accounts in 2018 to encourage people to join ISIS and build bombs and biological weapons, including detailed instructions for creating the poison ricin. In August... Read more

Samir Khan is a Pakistani-American extremist. He was born in Saudi Arabia and grew up in New York before moving to Yemen to join Al Qaeda. He was the editor and publisher of Al Qaeda in the... Read more

Sayfullo Saipov is an Uzbek citizen who committed a domestic terror attack inspired by ISIS on October 31, 2017. During the attack, Saipov drove his vehicle into the bike path along the Hudson River in New York... Read more