Just a few short years after it was thought to have been almost vanquished, al-Qaida has reemerged with a series of bombings. The bombings in Iraq, which killed more than 100 civilians, were part of a new strategy to link the insurgency there with the Sunni jihad against the Assad regime in Syria, a plan that is creating a new regional security threat and could see al-Qaida at the head of a broad-based, militant Sunni movement that stretches from Damascus to Baghdad to Tehran.

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