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Ansar Al-Islam
(Supporters of Islam) was formed in December 2001. The Sunni Islamic group is composed primarily of Kurds who follow an extremist brand of Islam, however their primary focus is opposing the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of two large secular Kurdish groups that opposed Saddam Hussein with U.S. backing.
Ansar al Islam, which operates in northeastern Iraq, has close links to and support from al-Qaida. Al-Qaida and Usama Bin Laden participated in the formation and funding of the group, which has provided safehaven to al-Qaida in northeastern Iraq.
The group's fighters are also believed to have trained with al-Qaida and U.S. officials suspect it of helping hide al-Qaida members fleeing Afghanistan.
The group has carried out terrorist attacks in Iraq. These include the attempted murder of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister, Barham Saleh in April 2002 and the attempted assassination of General Shawkat Haji Mushir, a prominent Kurdish politican, in near the city of Halabja.
The Islamic group called the Jund al-Islam seized control of several villages near Halabja in September 2001, and established an administration governed under Shari’a. The group is alleged to have ties to the al-Qaida network and many from the group had spent time in Afghanistan while it was under the control of the Taliban. The group changed its name to Ansar al-Islam in December 2001. The group continued to control a small section of the northern part of the country along the Iranian border at the end of 2002. Local authorities claim that the group seeks to expand the area under its control by undermining the local administration, with the ultimate goal of imposing rule under Islamic law over all of the northern part of the country. The group restricted non-Islamic worship, imposed severe restrictions on public behavior, and administered all civil affairs under an extreme interpretation of Islamic laws.
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Lima Charlie News
April 16, 2018
The border land, on the Libyan side, have become a haven for emerging new militia groups, including the al Qaeda-linked group Ansar al-Islam. Violence against Egyptian Coptic Christians has seen yet another nationwide surge in recent months. While the government has attempted to curtail the violence, ...
MDC for Middle Eastern and African Studies
April 15, 2018
They include channels operated by or affiliated with the Islamic party of Turkmenistan;[16] the Taliban in Pakistan[17] and Afghanistan;[18] Ansar al-Islam wal-Muslamin (Supporters of Muslims and Islam) identified with al-Qaeda in northwest Africa;[19] Anṣār Ghazwat al-Hind (Supporters of the Raid of ...
News24
April 11, 2018
France will lead a push at the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on parties in Mali blocking efforts to turn a three-year-old peace agreement into reality on the ground, the French ambassador said on Wednesday. Britain and the United States said they backed targeted sanctions as ...
Al-Arabiya
April 4, 2018
He was among the founders of Ansar al-Islam group. In 2003, he began working with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He then moved to live in Qatar. Al-Qatari worked from Qatar to financially and logistically support extremists and then moved from Qatar to Syria in 2011 to join Ahrar al-Sham then Nusra Front.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
April 2, 2018
Egypt faces a security challenge in the Sinai peninsula, where an Islamic movement, Ansar al-Islam, allied with al-Qaida, and other Islamic State-affiliated militias, stiffened with returnees from the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, challenge government control. There is also unrest in the Nile River valley, ...
BuzzFeed News
April 1, 2018
Chor first came to the attention of local security forces in late 2002 after he had joined a militant group called Ansar al-Islam, which menaced locals in northern Iraq with assassinations and bombings. The group scattered from its stronghold after it was hit by US airstrikes just before the US invasion in 2003.
The Mercury
April 1, 2018
Heck, they're not remotely the equivalent of Abu Sayyaf or Palestinian Islamic Jihad or Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade or Jemaah Islamiya or Ansar al-Islam or Al Shabaab or Haqqani Network or Boko Haran or Al-Nusra Front or Abu Nida or Al Badr or Egyptian Islamic Jihad or Harkat-al-Jihad al Islami or Islamic ...
The Trentonian
April 1, 2018
Heck, they're not remotely the equivalent of Abu Sayyaf or Palestinian Islamic Jihad or Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade or Jemaah Islamiya or Ansar al-Islam or Al Shabaab or Haqqani Network or Boko Haran or Al-Nusra Front or Abu Nida or Al Badr or Egyptian Islamic Jihad or Harkat-al-Jihad al Islami or Islamic ...
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 28, 2018
Kurdish academic Dr. Abdulhakim Khusro, a professor of political science at the University of Salahaddin in Erbil, who is also close to the Kurdistan Democratic Party, told Asharq Al-Awat that the White Banners “was formed from the remnants of the Baathists, Ansar al-Islam and Naqshbandi movement, and ...
Long War Journal
March 26, 2018
It has also fought alongside other al Qaeda-linked groups in Syria, including the Caucasus Emirate's branch in the country and Ansar al Islam. KIB's statement makes no mention of its activities in Afghanistan or the fact that it has sworn bayah, or an oath of allegiance, to the Afghan Taliban's leader.
The News Tribune
March 25, 2018
In Burkina Faso, the experts said, "the terrorist group Ansar Al-Islam has multiplied attacks in the last months against the government, including two attacks against Burkinabe security forces in Soum province on Dec. 2 and Dec. 21." Beasley told the Security Council last week that the number of people ...
Long War Journal
March 22, 2018
It has also fought alongside other al Qaeda-linked groups in Syria, including the Caucasus Emirate's branch in the country and Ansar al Islam. KIB has been particularly close with Nusrah's (now Hay'at Tahrir al Sham's) largely Uzbek battalion, Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad. Fighters and leaders of both ...
East Asia Forum
March 22, 2018
Bangladeshi Islamist and fundamentalist groups include international offshoots of the so-called Islamic State and al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, as well as home-grown organisations such as Ansar-al-Islam, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Islami Chhatra Shibir, Ansarullah Bangla Team, Hefazat-e-Islam, ...
Global Risk Insights
March 20, 2018
While it has kept a low profile in Algeria and retreated to the mountainous Kabyle region, it has staged several attacks in Libya and tried to link up to Ansar al-Islam Egypt. In the uninhabitable desert regions AQIM cooperates with local tribes. Personal ties between a brigade's commander and the central ...
Ahval
December 31, 1999
A veteran of jihad, despite his young age of 29, Al-Gharib joined joined Ansar Al-Islam in 2002, jihadist group linked to Al Qaida, established in northern Iraq. In 2007, Al-Gharib was suspected by Austria of preparing terrorist attacks and imprisoned. The Al Qaeda group in the Islamic Maghreb demanded his ...
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