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On a clear, cloudless Tuesday morning in September 2001, the United States experienced the deadliest act of terrorism ever carried out on its soil. In the space of 102 minutes, nineteen men armed with box cutters and a plan rehearsed for years turned four passenger aircraft into weapons, killed nearly 3,000 people, brought down the tallest buildings in New York City, tore a gash into the Pentagon, and left a smoking crater in a Pennsylvania field. The events of that day, now known simply a...

A quarter-century after al Qaeda militants hijacked four commercial passenger jets and crashed them into New York’s World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, the organization founded by Osama bin Laden continues to spawn regional affiliates and fuel militant movements across the globe. While suffering major setbacks over the past 25 years - most notably the 2011 killing of Osama by US forces and the rise of the Islamic State - militancy experts emphasize that al Qaeda remains a major...