The Boston Marathon Bombing was a domestic terrorist attack that occurred on April 15, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, two Kyrgyz-American brothers of Chechen descent, created two pressure cooker bombs using instructions published by... Read more

The Charlie Hebdo terror attack occurred on January 7, 2015 in Paris, France, when two brothers forced their way into the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring... Read more

Cole James Bridges, aka Cole Gonzales, is a U.S. Army soldier who was arrested and charged by the Southern District of New York in January 2021 for plotting to assist ISIS in attacking and killing his fellow... Read more

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