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al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a Sunni jihadist organisation founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden and other veterans of the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Based in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan in the late 1990s, it carried out the attacks of 11 September 2001, which led to the United States invasion of Afghanistan. Its regional branches have operated in Yemen, North Africa, the Sahel and Somalia.
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