List of al-Qaeda members

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This is a list of current and former members of al-Qaeda, including its branches around the globe. Little is known about the leadership or members because of the secretive nature of the organization.

Al-Qaeda Central (AQC)

Name	Rank	Status	Ref.
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam	Co-founder	Killed in 1989.	[1]
Mohammed Atef	Military planner	Killed in 2001.	[2]
Osama bin Laden	First Emir	Killed in 2011.	[3]
Ayman al-Zawahiri	Second Emir	Killed in 2022.	[3][4]
Saif al-Adel	Supreme Commander and strategist of al-Qaeda army	Current head of military shura.	[5]
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah	Operational planner	Killed in 2020.	[6][7]
Adam Yahiye Gadahn	Interpreter, spokesman for al-Qaeda	Killed in 2015.	[8]

Other individuals

Name	Rank	Status	Ref.
Muhannad Almallah Dabas	Unknown	Died from a gun wound in Homs, Syria in 2013.	[9]
Nasir al-Wuhayshi	Leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula	Killed in 2015.	[10]
Abdelmalek Droukdel	Leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb	Killed in 2020.	[11]
Asim Umar	Leader of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent	Killed in 2019.	[12]
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed	Leader of al-Qaeda in East Africa	Killed in 2011.	[13]
Hamza bin Laden	Fighter	Killed during the first two years of the Trump administration.	[14][15]

See also

• 055 Brigade
• Egyptian Islamic Jihad
• Islamic State
• List of Islamic State members