The Khorasan Group’s mission is to find new ways to attack the United States and Europe. For al Qaeda, which is struggling against ISIS for the crown of leading global jihad, the creation of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fadhli was not a member of the most notorious militant group operating in Syria, the Islamic State. Instead, according to U.S. officials, he was the leader of the Khorasan group, a small division ...

The United States appears to have just scored a big win in Syria in taking out a key al Qaeda bomb-maker plotting to blow up American passenger jets, but it could come at significant cost because ...

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.

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.

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.

Sources say the threat from Khorasan, whose targets were hit by U.S. airstrikes on Monday, began building as Syria's civil war was expanding in 2012. That's when U.S. and foreign intelligence ...

U.S. officials say the leader of a terrorist group bent on attacking the country has been killed in a drone strike. Many Americans don’t know it exists.