Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic state known as the Caliphate. Wikipedia
Founders: Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, and more
Founded: 1988, Peshawar, Pakistan