This region was the site of Israeli air strikes during the war in the summer of 2014, after militants fired rockets from it.
What is Gaza?
100
The site in Washington, D.C. that was attacked during September 11th.
What is the Pentagon?
100
The Taliban ruled in this country from 1996 to 2001.
What is Afghanistan?
100
The United States uses these, also known as unmanned arial vehicles, to remotely launch missile strikes, particularly along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
What are drones?
200
This country sheltered al-Qaeda until the American invasion in 2001
What is Afghanistan?
200
This group, initially a terrorist organization, transitioned to be the official representative of the Palestinian people in 1993.
What is the Palestinian Liberation Organization?
200
This American agency was created in response to the September 11th attacks to secure the nation's airports and air travel.
What is the TSA?
200
The Popular Front for the Liberation of this country was responsible for the Dawson's Field hijackings.
What is Palestine?
200
This Iraqi leader, deposed in 2003, was falsely accused by the United States of having ties to al-Qaeda.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
300
This country's invasion of Afghanistan in the 80s contributed to al-Qaeda's formation.
What is the Soviet Union?
300
This group, considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the E.U., defeated Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections.
What is Hamas?
300
Militants inspired by al-Qaeda attacked the offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo in this country, in 2015.
What is France?
300
The Shi'a group Hezbollah, whose name means Party of God, is based in this country.
What is Lebanon?
300
Under the Taliban, women were forced to wear this garment, keeping their faces completely covered.
What is the burqa?
400
The current leader of al-Qaeda.
Who is Ayman al-Zawahiri?
400
This group, named after the Jordanian expulsion of Palestinian militants in 1970, was responsible for the Munich massacre of 1972.
What is Black September?
400
The 2005 bombing of subway trains and a bus in this city were the worst terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom since the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
What is London?
400
Boko Haram is a terrorist group responsible for more than 13,000 civilian deaths in this African country.
What is Nigeria?
400
15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were citizens of this Middle Eastern country.
What is Saudi Arabia?
500
The city in Pakistan where, in 2011, the U.S. military killed Osama bin Laden.
What is Abbottabad?
500
This protest, which included some terrorist acts, began in 1987 and was marked by popular Palestinian anger including rock-throwing.
What is the First Intifada?
500
The 2004 bombing of commuter trains in this Iberian city killed 191 people and were inspired by al-Qaeda.
What is Madrid?
500
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is a militant group primarily active in this country.
What is Yemen?
500
This group, espousing secular Kurdish nationalism, led a guerilla war against Turkey from 1983 to 2013.