. . . . "Al-Q\u00E6da (/\u00E6l\u02C8ka\u026Ad\u0259/ or /\u02CC\u00E6lk\u0251\u02D0\u02C8i\u02D0d\u0259/; Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0627\u0639\u062F\u0629\u200E al-q\u0101\u02BFidah, Arabic: [\u00E6lq\u0251\u02D0\u0295\u026Ad\u0250], translation: \"The Base\", \"The Foundation\" or \"The Fundament\" and alternatively spelled al-Qaida, al-Q\u00E6da and sometimes al-Qa'ida) is a global militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and several others, at some point between August 1988 and late 1989, with origins traceable to the Arab volunteers who fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s."@en . .