On Sunday, six gunmen from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the terrorist group’s North African affiliate, killed 16 people, including four Europeans and two special forces soldiers, in an attack on hotels in Grand Bassam, a beach resort town in Ivory Coast.

Overnight on Friday, gunmen linked to Al Qaeda seized a luxury hotel, popular with Westerners, in the capital of Burkina Faso. By Saturday morning, security forces had killed four attackers, the Associated Press reports. At least 23 other people were also killed.

Donald Trump, a man who was once the spokesperson for a line of steaks that he sold at Sharper Image, has now become the spokesperson for a terrorist group. Is he happy about that fact? Sort of.

While Hillary Clinton’s claim that Trump was “ISIS’s best recruiter” may not have been totally verifiable a few weeks ago, she didn’t have to wait long for that to change. A newly released video from Al Shabab—Somalia’s resident Al Qaeda affiliate—uses footage of Trump spouting deeply Islamophobic rhetoric as a direct recruitment tool for its terrorist organization.

The White House has confirmed reports that Nasir al-Wuhayshi, Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, was killed by a U.S. airstrike in southern Yemen on Friday.

Citing Yemeni national security officials, CNN reports that Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, was killed in southern Yemen on Friday by a suspected U.S. drone strike.

Newly declassified documents from Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad retirement compound show that al Qaeda’s rigorous HR department wasn’t just trolling LinkedIn for resumes—the terror organization had a formal application process. “Who should we contact in case you became a martyr?”

About 100 U.S. commandos, including Green Berets and Navy Seals, have been ordered to evacuate Yemen, NBC News reports. Al Qaeda fighters captured the capital of a southern Yemen province on Friday, while elsewhere ISIS suicide bombers attacked mosques in Sanaa.

Previously classified letters between Osama bin Laden and a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative reveal that the Afghan government used a secret fund, bankrolled by the CIA, to facilitate the release of a senior Afghan official kidnapped by the terrorist organization in 2010, The New York Times reports.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has come forward claiming responsibility for the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices that left 12 dead. In a video originally uploaded to YouTube, Yemeni al Qaeda leader Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi heralds brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi as "two heroes of Islam."

Captured American journalist Luke Somers and another hostage held by Al Qaeda in Yemen were murdered during a failed rescue attempt by U.S. special forces, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirmed in a statement today.

In a new video obtained by the SITE Intelligence Group, a man purporting to be American hostage Luke Somers pleads for his life at the hands of al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate group.

According to the Associated Press, jihadi godfathers Al Qaeda and scrappy terror upstarts ISIS have decided to put aside their petty differences and focus on what's really important: making life worse for everyone else.

NBC News just broke the fascinating news about a 33-year-old Southern Californian with a crazy Twitter account who has been killed in Syria fighting for ISIS, Al Qaeda's uglier, nastier little brother:

Since taking Mosul earlier this month, the Islamic militant group ISIS has robbed banks, committed mass executions, and burned oil refineries as Iraq slides closer and closer to all-out war. According to NYPD counterterrorism chief John Miller, New Yorkers and other Americans are marching in their ranks.

At a press conference this afternoon, President Obama said that he's still considering responses to the escalating crisis in Iraq, where Sunni militants are gaining ground by the hour. While officials have said that he's considering airstrikes, Obama was clear at the conference that any military decision would be contingent on the Iraqi government's plan for follow-up action.

Sunni insurgents advancing towards Baghdad took two more towns in Iraq last night, seizing control of Saadiyah and Jalawla as Iraqi security forces reportedly abandoned their posts without a fight.

In the past week, Al Qaeda-connected Islamic militants have attacked multiple cities across Iraq and are rapidly consolidating power in the nation that the United States spent so much blood and treasure trying to stabilize. The situation is dire and dynamic. Here's some of what we know.

Iraq moved closer to a full-out sectarian conflict Thursday morning when Kurdish forces took over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, adding to the mass confusion since Al-Qaeda influenced insurgents began seizing Iraqi cities this week. The U.S. has refused to intervene at this point.

Islamist insurgents seized another city, Tikrit, in Iraq today, just 24 hours after taking Iraq's third-largest city, Mosul. With Iraqi government forces more unstable than ever, the militants are rapidly advancing towards Baghdad.