The United States is offering reward up to $1m for information leading to late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Ladin’s son, Hamza bin Laden.
The US Department of State said in a statement that Hamza bin Laden is emerging as a leader of Islamist militant group which was co-founded by his father.
He was labeled a “specially designated global terrorist” in January 2017, the statement added.
In recent years, Hamza has released audio and video messages calling on his supporters to launch terror attacks against the United States and its allies in the West in revenge for his father’s killing.
As a “specially designated global terrorist,” Hamza bin Laden’s assets in the US have been frozen and Americans are prohibited from engaging in transactions with him.
In August, United Nation’s experts delivered a report to the Security Council which stated that Al Qaeda is still a global network showing resilience and that it is stronger than ISIS in countries like Somalia, Yemen and South Asia, Fox News reported.
“Al Qaeda’s leadership demonstrates strategic patience and its regional affiliates exercise good tactical judgment, embedding themselves in local issues and becoming players,” the report said.
The terrorist organization was founded in 1988, and led several attacks targeting US troops and embassies abroad.
Al-Qaeda hijackers took over four commercial flights and used it in 2001 attacks. Two of the planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York City, one into the Pentagon and the fourth into a field in Pennsylvania. The 9/11 attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and injured more than 6,000.
Osama bin Laden was killed during a US military raid on May 2, 2011, in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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