Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were domestic terrorists who committed the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013. The Kyrgyz-American brothers were radicalized in part by the lectures of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's (AQAP) extremist cleric... Read more

The Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) is a propaganda distribution network associated with Al Qaeda, although it has boosted the propaganda of a number of jihadist groups. It was originally created as a distribution list in June... Read more

The Holy Land Foundation was a Texas-based charity whose five founding officers were sentenced in May 2009 to between 15 and 65 years in prison for funneling over $12 million to Hamas.

Jihad is an Arabic word meaning "struggle." Jihad is one of the five pillars of Islam, and many scholars have written about its meaning and application. In a moderate context, jihad can often refer to a personal... Read more

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is an Al Qaeda member and the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks. He was arrested in Rawalpindi, Pakistan in 2003 and is currently in detention at Guantanamo Bay. He also organized and funded... Read more

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

"Media jihad" refers to an ISIS innovation in the Islamist terrorist sphere heavily emphasizing online media and appealing propaganda as a means of recruiting foreign fighters and spreading its message. To this end, ISIS recruiters often emphasize... Read more

The Garland, Texas terrorist plot, also known as the "Draw Mohammed Art Contest" plot, refers to a May 3, 2015 incident in which two men — Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi — entered the Curtis Culwell Center... Read more