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    Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan (Kurdish: ئەنسارولئیسلام له کوردستاندا), simply called Ansar al-Islam (Kurdish: ئەنسارولئیسلام), was a Kurdish Islamist militant...
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    allegiance to Ansar al-Islam, and its Arab members creating a group called Ansar al-Sunnah Shariah Committee, before changing its name to Ansar al-Ahlu Sunnah...
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    The Ansar or Ansari (Arabic: الأنصار, romanized: al-Anṣār, lit. 'The Helpers' or 'Those who bring victory') are the local inhabitants (mostly Muslims)...
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  • Ansar ul Islam or Ansar al-Islam (Arabic: انصار الاسلام; "Partisans of Islam" or "Helpers of Islam") may refer to: Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan, a Kurdish...
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    Kurdistan. In the Islamic emirate, Islah and Jund al-Islam merged to form Ansar al-Islam, which acted as the military of the Islamic emirate. Mullah Krekar...
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  • Jabhat Ansar al-Islam (Arabic: جبهة أنصار الإسلام; Supporters of Islam Front), originally formed as Tajamu' Ansar al-Islam (Arabic: تجمع أنصار الإسلام;...
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  • months, in which the Islamic State dominated. Some Ansar al-Islam militants and commanders later joined the Islamic State. Ansar al-Islam later drastically...
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    Team (ABT) (Bengali: আনসারুল্লাহ বাংলা টিম), also known as Ansar-al Islam Bangladesh or Ansar Bangla is a militant organization in Bangladesh, implicated...
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    The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of...
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    operation was to eliminate Ansar al-Islam and dismantle the Islamic Emirate of Kurdistan. Ansar al-Islam was established by former Al-Qaeda members in 2001...
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    controversies, many Ansar al-Islam leaders pledged their allegiance to the Islamic State. On 29 August 2014, over 50 Ansar al-Islam commanders, and high-ranking...
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    2001. Ansar al-Islam imposed Sharia in the villages they controlled around Byara, close to the border to Iran. Human Rights Watch has accused Ansar al-Islam...
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    al-Islam was formed around a core of Moroccan fighters, the Green Battalion mainly had fighters from Saudi Arabia and Jaish al-Mujahireen wal-Ansar was...
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    White Flags (category Kurdish Islamic organisations)
    romanized: Sufyanîyûn), are a Kurdish militant group in Iraq. They are an offshoot of Ansar al-Islam, based in the disputed territories of northern Iraq. Their appearance...
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    Ansar Dine (Arabic: أنصار الدين ʾAnṣār ad-Dīn, also transliterated Ançar Deen), meaning "helpers of the religion" (Islam) (Defenders of the Faith) and...
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    formed by the merger of Ansar Dine, the Macina Liberation Front, al-Mourabitoun and the Saharan branch of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (former Salafist...
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    a leading role in the decisive Operation Viking Hammer to oust the Ansar al-Islam terrorist organization, which was recognized as a major threat to Kurdistan's...
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  • Abu Hashim Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman al-Ibrahim was the third leader of Ansar al-Islam, a Salafi Jihadi group operating in Iraq, until 2014. A native...
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  • Look up ansar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ansar, Al Ansar, or Al-Ansar may refer to: Al-Ansar (Iraq), a Communist guerrilla group in Iraq active...
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  • Battle of Kheli Hama (category Kurdish Islamism)
    The Battle of Kheli Hama was an ambush on the PUK by Ansar al-Islam in the village of Kheli Hama in the Halabja Governorate. It took place 13 days after...
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  • Al Ansar Football Club (Arabic: نادي الأنصار الرياضي, lit. 'The Supporters Sporting Club') is a football club based in Tariq El Jdideh, a district in Beirut...
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    Liwa al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar (LMA, Arabic: لواء المهاجرون والأنصار), Brigade of Emigrants and Supporters or literally Banner of the Emigrants and Supporters)...
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    Mullah Krekar (category Iraqi Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam)
    (Kurdish: مه‌لا کرێکار), is a Kurdish Sunni Islamic scholar who was the founder and former leader of Ansar al-Islam. He is currently serving a prison sentence...
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  • Iraqi Kurdistan), is the former leader of Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna and Ansar al-Islam from early 2003 to 2010. He is a Kurdish veteran of jihad in Afghanistan...
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    ISOJ reportedly have ties with Bangladesh-based jihadist groups like Ansar al-Islam. Al Ummah was founded by Syed Ahmed Basha in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu in...
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    merger between al-Qaeda operatives in Sinai and Ansar al Jihad. It was Al-Qaeda's branch in the Sinai peninsula, and is composed of many Al-Qaeda factions...
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  • Osbat al-Ansar or Asbat an-Ansar (Arabic: عصبة الأنصار, romanized: ʿUṣbat al-ʾAnṣār, "League of the Partisans") is a Sunni fundamentalist group established...
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    pro-Caliphate outlook, that allied with ISIL and held ties with Ansar al-Islam with a number of Ahrar al-Sham members later joining ISIL during the group's presence...
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    Ansar Bait al-Maqdis (ABM; Arabic: أنصار بيت المقدس, romanized: Anṣār Bayt al-Maqdis, lit. 'Supporters of the Holy House'), or Ansar Al-Quds (lit. 'Supporters...
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  • leader of the White Flags which is believed to be a splinter group of Ansar al-Islam by the government of Iraq and some observers. Qawali was born to a Sunni...
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