- Formed | Yemen | 2009.
- By | fled Saudi AQ terrorists | AQ’s Yemini branch.
- Led by Anwar al-Awlaki | American-born Yemeni cleric.
- Killed | drone strike | September 2011.
- Still a threat | but AQAP attacks against western countries reduced.
- Awlaki’s videos | a radicalization threat | terror finance | terror recruitment.
- 2018 | 6,000 to 7,000 fighters | UN.
- February 2022 | 3,000 fighters | UN.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
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