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Al Qaeda Growing Stronger By the Minute

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Posted: October 7th, 2016

Fifteen years to the date after the U.S. launched its invasion of Afghanistan, al Qaeda still remains a force to be reckoned with. And with international attention focused on decimating the Islamic State’s (ISIS) capabilities and ISIS continually losing both ground in its self-declared caliphate and strongholds around the globe, al Qaeda’s allure may be growing even stronger by the minute.

“In all of al Qaeda’s main theaters, very unfortunately and tragically, it is gaining credibility and gaining respect, and amassing additional power at a time when we thought we could just write off al Qaeda as having strategically collapsed, if not decisively defeated,” explains terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman.

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