Abu Jandal had failed to appreciate that knowing the Khorasan hadith was part of the job of an Islamic terrorism expert like Soufan. As the former FBI agent explains in his 2013 book The Black ...

Khorasan is a network of seasoned al-Qaida operatives that see the U.S. and Western interests as its prime target. Its militants come from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.

WASHINGTON -- The barrage of U.S. cruise missiles aimed at a cell of al Qaeda militants in Syria last month failed to eliminate the threat from the group working on plots to blow up airplanes over ...

U.S. officials say that their strikes against Khorasan appear to have been a success, killing the group's leader, Mushin al-Fadhli. However, some analysts are perturbed by the lack of information ...

Some critics say the al-Qaida unit known as the Khorasan Group was bluffed up as an excuse for U.S. airstrikes in Syria. Intelligence officials and analysts say the group exists and is dangerous.

Most of the group’s roughly two dozen operatives came to Syria from Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2012.Khorasan is allegedly led by Muhsin al-Fadhli — there are unconfirmed reports that Fadhli ...

The Khorasan Group is separate from the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq — so much so that Obama on Tuesday sent two different notifications to Congress under the War Powers Resolution.

U.S. airstrikes in Syria 00:08 "We've been watching this group closely for sometime," Mayville said. "We believe the Khorasan group was nearing the execution phase of an attack either in Europe or ...

Syria-based al-Qaida affiliate is possibly one of the most secretive organizations operating under cover of country's civil war ...

The three decades of civil war in Afghanistan caused state failure, linguistic conflict and the ethnicisation of politics. After the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, Afghanistan experienced new ...

Khorasan is often translated from Persian as “there where the sun rises”. It refers to a geographical region spanning parts of Iran, Afghanistan, and the five post-Soviet states of Central Asia.