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| Al-Qaeda | |
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| القاعدة | |
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| Active | 11 August 1988 - 20 August 1998 |
| Ideology | Pan-Islamism Islamic extremism Islamic fundamentalism Anti-imperialism Sunni Islamism Salafist Islamism Salafi jihadism Wahhabism Qutbism Takfirism Anti-Americanism Anti-Western Anti-communism Anti-Zionism Antisemitism Anti-LGBT Anti-Shi'ism |
| Leaders | Osama bin Laden † (1988-1998) |
Al-Qaeda (/ælˈkaɪdə, ˌælkɑːˈiːdə/; Arabic: القاعدة al-Qāʿidah, IPA: [ælqɑːʕɪdɐ], lit. 'the Base' or 'the Foundation', alternatively spelled al-Qaida and al-Qa'ida), officially known as Qaedat al-Jihad, was a multinational militant Sunni Islamic extremist network composed of Salafist jihadists. It was founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and other Arab volunteers during the Soviet–Afghan War.
Al-Qaeda has been designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council (the permanent members of which are China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union, India, and various other countries. Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on non-military and military targets in various countries prior to it's collapse in 1998, including the 1998 United States embassy bombings.
Al-Qaeda members believed a Christian-Jewish alliance (led by the United States) is conspiring to be at war against Islam and destroy Islam. As Salafist jihadists, members of al-Qaeda believed that killing non-combatants is religiously sanctioned. Al-Qaeda also opposed what it regards as man-made laws, and wants to replace them exclusively with a strict form of sharīʿa (Islamic religious law, which is perceived as divine law).
Following the death of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri in 1998, the group ultimately collapsed following the mysterious deaths of Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri in 20 August of the same year.
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