Salafi jihadists

Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011. A pan-Islamist, bin Laden organized and funded numerous jihadist or anti-Western militants and terrorist attacks worldwide. Al-Qaeda's attacks against the United States on 11 September 2001 (9/11) directly killed 2,977 victims, causing the global war on terror.

al-Qaeda terrorist leader (1951–2022), Muslim jurist and theologian (Sunni), surgeon

Jordanian jihadist (1966–2006)

Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary (1906–1966)

Current de-facto Emir of Al-Qaeda

Jihadist militant group in the southwestern Philippines

Saudi Arabian militant (1969-2002)

Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and Salafi jihadist (1941–1989)

Egyptian al-Qaeda member (1967–2010)

Islamist warlord

Lebanese terrorist and 9/11 hijacker (1975–2001)

Pakistani Taliban Militant leader (1974-2009)

former official spokesman for IS (1977–2016)

Egyptian-born British Islamist terrorist

Islamic cleric, alleged al-Qaeda member

Saudi Arabian militant and soldier (1936-1980)

Jordanian-Palestinian Islamist writer (born 1959)

Algerian al-Qaeda member (1972–2016)

Syrian footballer/ Rebel, (1992-2019)

Egyptian Islamist writer and scholar (1919-2014)

Algerian al-Qaeda member (1970–2020)

Libyan member of al-Qaeda (1969–2011)

Islamist Saudi (1973–2004)

Islamist from Egypt (1942-1978)

suspected Syrian member of Al-Qaeda

group of mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War

Egyptian Terrorist

شيخ الإسلام

Russian rebel

German commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

leader of IS-KP

Egyptian military personnel

Algerian al-Qaeda member (born 1969)

Jordanian doctor and suicide bomber (1977–2009)

Ex-Leader of a Terrorist Sunni Muslim Militia known as "Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir Group", which attacked the Lebanese Army in 2013 in Saida

Saudi militant (1970–2005)

Algerian Islamist leader

Moroccan al-Qaeda member

Egyptian Islamist

Bombmaker

Saudi Arabian Salafi thinker

association football player

Moro militant leader (born 1959)

Algerian Islamist militant (1969–2004)