Organisasi yang dipimpin bin Laden pernah dianggap sebagai kelompok jihadis yang paling mematikan di dunia. Mereka menggerakkan ribuan orang yang siap bertempur. Al-Qaeda juga diyakini memiliki sumber pendanaan yang besar. Namun seiring kematian bin Laden dan kemunculan ISIS, kekuatan dan pengaruh al-Qaeda secara perlahan melemah. Jadi seberapa kuat pengaruh kelompok ini sekarang, dan ancaman apa yang mereka bisa lancarkan untuk menganggu keamanan global? Bangkit diam-diam Ketika ISIS mendominasi pemberitaan media massa di seluruh dunia selama beberapa tahun terakhir, al-Qaeda menjalankan strategi untuk membangun dan memimpin aliansi dengan kelompok lain. Mereka melakukan ini secara diam-diam. Dalam laporan terbarunya, Badan Intelijen Nasional Amerika Serikat mengingatkan bahwa pimpinan al-Qaeda tengah memperkuat jejaring komando global. Al-Qaeda juga disebut terus mendorong serangan terhadap AS dan negara barat lainnya. Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa, dalam laporan tentang ancaman teroris
Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In a 1998 interview, he gave his birth date as 10 March 1957. His father Muhammed Awad bin Laden was a wealthy businessman with close ties to the Saudi royal family.Osama bin Laden was born the only son of Muhammed bin Laden's tenth wife, Hamida al-Attas. Osama's parents divorced soon after he was born; Osama's mother then married Muhammad al-Attas. The couple had four children, and Osama lived in the new household with three stepbrothers and one stepsister. Bin Laden was raised as a devout Wahhabi Muslim. From 1968 to 1976 he attended the "élite" secular Al-Thager Model School. Bin Laden studied economics and business administration at King Abdulaziz University. Some reports suggest bin Laden earned a degree in civil engineering in 1979, or a degree in public administration in 1981.[12] Other sources describe him as having left university during his third year,[13] never completing a college degree, though &q