The U.S. State Department hit East African al Qaeda affiliate group al Shabaab with a series of sanctions to hold the group accountable for recent terrorist attacks.
American airstrikes have killed a dozen al-Qaeda and Taliban members in Syria and Afghanistan since Thursday. 
Afghan security forces claimed they killed a top al Qaeda operative listed on the FBI’s most-wanted list, Politico reported Sunday.
Two senior al Qaeda operatives were reportedly killed in an American drone strike in Syria’s Idlib Governorate on Thursday.
Another terrorist died in Syria this month on President Donald J. Trump's order. Khaled al-Aruri, a journeyman jihadist and de facto leader of a local al Qaeda affiliate, was killed in a U.S. special operations drone strike on June 14.
Secret agreements reached between the Taliban and the Trump administration do not do enough to compel the terrorist organization to sever its ties with al Qaeda, Rep. Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) disclosed after reviewing classified documents. 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed in a statement on Thursday that top al Qaeda bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, believed to have masterminded a failed bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner in 2009, was killed two years ago in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in Yemen. 
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D., Hawaii) said President Donald Trump supports al Qaeda during the Democratic debate Thursday night. 
Put into action, Bernie Sanders's ideas would actually perpetuate, rather than end, America's "endless wars" in the broader Middle East. 
Al Qaeda is operating "across" Afghanistan in several regions, according to Gen. Austin Scott Miller, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. 