Is Al Qaeda Now Insignificant?

With the killing of bin Laden and the drone attacks on many of his followers, one would think that the answer to the question would be 'yes'. However, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross thinks otherwise. He may have a point as he summarizes some of Al Qaeda's work in 2013:

The last year was a good one for al Qaeda, and for jihadism more broadly. Al Qaeda affiliates drove Iraq to its highest violence levels since 2007, capped off a year of increasingly sophisticated attacks in the Horn of Africa with a notorious assault on Nairobi's Westgate Mall, and took control of entire cities in northern Syria while attracting large numbers of foreigners to that battlefield. Jihadist groups also executed a series of daring jailbreaks in three countries in a 10-day period, mounted a major offensive in Egypt's Sinai, and drove Tunisia's government to declare an internal war.