25 Years After 9/11, Al-Qaeda Remains Active in Afghanistan as Global Network Shifts, Report Says

Twenty-five years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, al-Qaeda remains active inside Afghanistan, according to a new assessment by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.

But the report says the wider jihadist movement has changed. Rather than operating around a single central focus, global jihadism has evolved into a decentralized network spread across Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.

The assessment says Afghanistan is no longer the central focus of that global network, even as al-Qaeda continues to operate there.