Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, who died under mysterious circumstances in 1989, is still considered the “godfather” of Afghanistan’s Mujahideen-led resistance to Soviet occupation. Born in 1941 in ...

“We in the Brigades of Abdullah Azzam bear witness that we only went out for jihad after incitation from Sheikh Osama bin Laden, by his words and his actions. He is the one enacted among the people of ...

As the Lenin of international jihad, Abdullah Azzam didn’t invent his movement’s ideas, but he furthered them and put them into practice around the world. He constructed the religious ...

I remember when I came back from my first trip to Mazar-i-Sharif in 1984, and writing a report to Sheikh Abdullah Azzam saying we needed a hundred Muslims with the following skills: aid worker, ...

The al-Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades took responsibility for ... bombing at the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh that killed 88. The organization’s mandate has since expanded ...

On a cold and blustery evening in December 1989, Huthaifa Azzam, the teenage son of the legendary Jordanian-Palestinian mujahideen leader Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, went to the airport in Peshawar ...

The Abdullah Azzam Brigades militant group linked to al ... The Brigades claimed an attack on the Egyptian Sinai resort town Sharm el-Sheikh, where two car bombs and a suitcase ripped through ...

Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, who died under mysterious circumstances in 1989, is still considered the “godfather” of Afghanistan’s Mujahideen-led resistance to Soviet occupation.