# The War on Terror, 25 years later: Did it make us safer?

https://mins.news/en/video/46486

- DW News, 2026-09-05 10:00 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P97pLa7_qw8

> Al-Qaida’s founder has long been dead, yet jihadist networks now extend from Kabul to Lagos. Afghanistan has returned to Taliban rule, while ISIS camps in Iraq and Syria have emptied into chaos. DW revisits 25 years of the War on Terror with experts asking whether the world became safer or the threat merely shifted.

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