Al-Qaeda 50 times bigger than at time of 9/11, UN warns
5 February 2026
Featured in The Times
Terrorism
Dr Joana de Deus Pereira, a senior research fellow at Rusi Europe specialising in counterterrorism, warned against overlooking conflicts involving terrorists that could “become as lethal as ones we are observing”. She said traditional terrorist groups were resilient and their use of artificial intelligence was affecting the scale and speed at which terrorists were operating.

