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Salafi jihadist organization founded in 1988
President Barack Obama did not notify Congress before the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and the administration framed the strike as lawful under the 2001 AUMF and principles of self‑defen...
The Obama administration carried out targeted strikes that killed at least one U.S. citizen — Anwar al‑Awlaki — and struck again days later in Yemen that killed his 16‑year‑old son Abdulrahman, also a...
President Barack Obama approved the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric, and U.S. strikes under his administration killed his 16-year-old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki in Yemen; source...
Barack Obama’s administration developed a formal, internal framework (the Presidential Policy Guidance, PPG) that imposed specific constraints—such as geographic limits, a “near-certainty” standard to...
President Barack Obama’s administration ordered at least one lethal strike that killed a U.S. citizen abroad (Anwar al‑Awlaki in Yemen on Sept. 30, 2011) and U.S. officials later acknowledged U.S. dro...
President Obama did not routinely seek new, specific congressional authorizations for the wide-ranging drone and airstrike campaigns of his presidency; his administration primarily relied on the post‑...
There is no single, authoritative count of “how many Islamist terrorist attacks have there been” in the sources provided; databases and analyses count attacks differently and focus on specific years, ...
Major investigations and mainstream reporting reject the claim that “9/11 was an inside job,” concluding the attacks were carried out by al‑Qaeda operatives; government analyses such as NIST and debun...
Claims that “Bush did 9/11” are a central 9/11 conspiracy theory that accuses the George W. Bush administration of planning, allowing, or covering up the September 11, 2001 attacks; most mainstream in...
The Quran contains verses that, taken out of context, appear to command violence — for example phrases like “kill them wherever you find them” have been widely quoted — but Islamic scholars, apologeti...
President Donald Trump did announce that he planned to host senior Taliban leaders at Camp David and in Washington in September 2019, then abruptly cancelled those meetings after a Taliban attack; con...
President Obama’s administration authorized at least one deliberate targeted killing of a U.S. citizen abroad — Anwar al‑Awlaki in Yemen — and the Justice Department produced a confidential legal fram...
President Obama’s administration ordered drone strikes that killed at least one U.S. citizen, Anwar al‑Awlaki, and the administration acknowledged that U.S. strikes had killed several American citizen...
Assessing whether “Islam is dangerous to the West” requires distinguishing between a tiny minority of violent extremists and the vast majority of Muslims, and between criminal-terror threats and broad...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive tally of how many drone strikes occurred during President Biden’s term; independent trackers report that U.S. strikes dropped to historic lows und...
The United States should not fear an imminent, organized of its government or territory; current assessments show international Salafi‑jihadist groups lack the capacity to seize control domestically, ...
Allegations that Barack Obama “committed war crimes” focus chiefly on his expansion of drone strikes, “double-tap” tactics, and U.S. support for partner operations (reports cite roughly 563 strikes wi...
The Obama administration ran a large targeted‑killing campaign using drones and other strikes—analysts count roughly 540–1,878 strikes during his presidency depending on counting methods—and the admin...
The Trump administration negotiated and signed the Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan — commonly called the U.S.–Taliban or Doha deal — on February 29, 2020; it set a 14-month, conditions-bas...
The numbers for : U.S. government tallies released under Obama count roughly *tens* of civilian deaths, while investigative NGOs and researchers estimate *hundreds* to over a thousand across Pakistan,...