Tag: Bin Laden

US offers $1 million reward to find bin Laden son

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Thursday offered a $1 million reward for information on a son of late Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, seeing him as an emerging face of extremism. The location of Hamza bin Laden, sometimes dubbed the “crown prince of jihad,” has been the subject of speculation for years with reports of him living in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria or under house arrest in Iran. “Hamza bin Laden is […]

IS not dead yet but ‘caliphate’ dream in tatters

by Ali Choukeir and Sarah Benhaida Agence France Presse BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — Its “caliphate” has imploded, its de facto capitals in Iraq and Syria have fallen, and hundreds of its fighters have either surrendered or fled. The Islamic State jihadist group may not be dead yet but its dream of statehood has already been buried, analysts say. No one in IS “will now think of imposing ‘the territory of the caliphate’,” said Hisham al-Hashemi, an Iraqi […]