Mukhtar Robow
Robow was born on 10 October 1969 in Hudur, in the Bakool region southern Somalia. He studied at a local Qur'anic school, and later continued...
Extremism
Ahmed Abdi Godane
Ahmed Abdi Godane, also known as Mukhtar Abu Zubair, was the Emir (leader) of Al-Shabaab, an Islamist group based in Somalia with ties to Al...
Abdul Rauf Azhar
Abdul Rauf is a commander of the militant Jaish-e-Mohammad, administered portion of the state of Kashmir and also in Afghanistan. The younger brother of Jaish-e-Mohammad...
Ilyas Kashmiri
Ilyas Kashmiri, also referred to as Maulana Ilyas Kashmiri and Muhammad Ilyas Kashmiri (10 February 1964 – 3 June 2011), was a senior al-Qaeda operative...
Masood Azhar
Azhar was born in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan on 10 July 1968 (although some sources list his birth date as 7 August 1968) as the third...
Amjad Farooqi
Amjad Farooqi (1972 – September 26, 2004) known by the alias Amjad Hussain, was an Islamic militant. He was born in Punjab, Pakistan and participated...
Asim Umar
Asim Umar is an Indian man and the leader of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent. al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri announced the creation of AQIS and...
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab popularly referred to as the "Underwear Bomber", is a Nigerian man who, at the age of 23, confessed to and was convicted...
Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti
Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti was a Pakistani al-Qaeda member and courier for Osama bin Laden. He was not a Kuwaiti, but rather was an ethnic Pashtun...
Nasir al-Wuhayshi
Nasir al-Wuyayshi was born on 1 October 1976 in the Mukayras region of what is now the southern province of al-Bayda, Yemen. He spent time...
Abdullah al-Asiri
Abdullah Hassan al-Asiri was a Saudi Arabian member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. His name is an ascription to the 'Asir Province of Saudi...
Ibrahim al-Asiri
Ibrahim Hassan Tali al-Asiri was a citizen of Saudi Arabia suspected of being chief bomb-maker of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. He was reported to...