pAfter years of hardship and decline for al-Qaeda, which was rebuked by Iraqis and isolated by a U.S. campaign in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the group appears to be making some potentially significant inroads. It is exploiting the chaos and militancy in Syria and in the Western Sahel, a region of West Africa that includes Mali and Algeria that is difficult to govern./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/al-qaedas-world-a-fascinating-map-of-the-groups-shifting-global-network/2013/02/04/1fed7512-6ef5-11e2-b35a-0ee56f0518d2_blog.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/2839a74b/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/155984809634/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2839a74b/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/155984809634/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2839a74b/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/155984809634/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2839a74b/a2t.img" border="0"/