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Al-Qaeda has evolved from a centrally controlled organisation into a dispersed global network. Here’s how its leadership, funding and major regional affiliates operate today.
Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011 and Ayman al-Zawahiri in 2022. Yet Al-Qaeda survived. Here is how decentralisation and regional affiliates transformed the network.