Al-Qaeda living weakest state, weak leadership worsens situation

Al-Qaeda has been going through a clear weak state during recent years, trying to compensate its impact by the media appearance to prove its existence, despite its successive losses in favor of the terrorist organization "ISIS", which receives hundreds of al-Qaeda members after the pledge of allegiance to the ISIS leader in many regions, especially the African continent.

Recently, a United Nations monitoring unit issued a new report on the extremist movements, during which it focused on the "Al-Qaeda" organization, and the report stated that the organization is no longer posing an immediate international terrorist threat.

It is also noticeable that the hierarchy of Al-Qaeda has significantly eroded in recent years, which has led to its weak central authority in favor of its branches in Africa and Syria.

These branches have become separate entities by themselves, as Al-Qaeda no longer necessarily represents a coherent and organized group that is based on religious ideology foundations.

The past five years have witnessed a significant decline in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as it is no longer able to rule the pockets in which it has, just like the situation in Yemen, until it lost the ability to work in secret.

Observers believe that the reasons behind this decline came as a result of many challenges faced by the organization in the Arabian Peninsula at the external and internal levels, especially following international efforts to combat terrorism that intensified after 2016.

It is the external pressures and international efforts to combat terrorism that intensified after 2016.

Moreover, Al-Qaeda, in the Arabian Peninsula, suffered internal pressure as a result of the informants and agents who were planted within the same jihadist movement and worked as a spies against it.

In a documentary series entitled "Demolishing Espionage", produced between 2018 and 2020, it was revealed how members of the organization surrendered to blackmail and material temptations, in revealing information about their colleagues.

This was to the extent that the organization decided in late 2019 to issue an amnesty for them and not to expose all the informants who repented.

The central leadership of Al-Qaeda no longer has the ability to control the branches of the organization abroad, which are working in isolated islands.

These branches are also exposed to strikes and corrosion from the inside for other groups.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the organization, disappeared for nearly two years amid reports of his death, and then suddenly appeared last April to announce that he was still alive after the news that was leaked.

The appearance of the leader of the "Al Qaeda" organization did not have the same force or pressure that it had before, as it was a faded appearance through a series of records free from the organizational directives.