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Al-Qaeda is a terror group notorious for the September 11 attack on the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001.

The global militant Islamist organization has been active in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somali, Iraq, Yemen and Syria. Al-Qaeda was founded by Osama bin Laden sometime around 1988. Since his death in 2011 the group has been led by Ayman al-Zawahiri.