• 2001

    Wuhayshi was Osama bin Laden's secretary and close aide; he accompanied Osama to the caves of Tora Bora when they escaped following the U.S. invasion.

  • 2003

    Fled to Iran; arrested and extradited to Yemen where he was imprisoned.

  • 2006

    Escaped along with 22 fellow jihadists from a Yemeni prison.

  • 2009

    Wuhayshi announced in a video the merger of the al-Qaeda offshoots in Yemen and Saudi Arabia to form "al-Qaeda of the Jihadist Organisation in the Arabian Peninsula".

  • August, 2013

    It was reported that Wuhayshi had been named al-Qaeda's second-in-command.