11 August 1988
●Founding of al-Qaeda
PartiesArmed Islamist groups (al-Qaeda, Nusra, ISIS, Assir…)
On 11 August 1988 Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam and their companions founded the "al-Qaeda" organisation in Peshawar from the Arab fighters in Afghanistan as the Soviet withdrawal approached; it became the head of the cross-border jihadist organisations.