Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Amurka ta shiga NATO a cikin aikin soja a Libya
, wanda ya kai ga mutuwar Muammar Gaddafi. A watan Mayun 2011 Navy SEALS sun kashe shugaban Al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden. A ranar 11 ga Satumba, 2012, 'yan kungiyar Ansar al-Sharia sun kai hari kan cibiyar diflomasiyyar Amurka a Benghazi, wanda ya yi sanadiyar mutuwar Jakadan Amurka a Libya J. Christopher Stevens da wasu Amurkawa uku. Amurka ta kara kai hare-haren jirage marasa matuka a Pakistan, Somalia, da Yemen, inda ta kai hari kan wani malamin addinin Musulunci dan asalin kasar Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki a ranar 30 ga Satumba, 2011. An kashe dansa mai shekaru 16, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, wanda aka haifa a Amurka, makonni biyu bayan haka.