Ansar al-Sharia is the Derna based branch of a larger Libyan group; the branch is headed by Abu Sufian bin Qumu. In 2011 bin Qumu became the leader of...

(Libya) (until 2017) Ansar al-Sharia (Derna, Libya) (until 2018) Ansar al-Sharia (Mauritania) (until 2019) Syria Ansar al-Sharia (Syria) (reportedly defunct...

Ansar al-Sharia in Libya (ASL, Arabic: أنصار الشريعة بليبيا, lit. 'Supporters of Sharia') was an Al-Qaeda-aligned Salafi Jihadist militia group that advocated...

al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Ansar al-Sharia and several other al-Qaeda affiliated groups. The capture of Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, a senior al-Qaeda...

2014). "Profile: Libya's Ansar al-Sharia". BBC News. Hashem, Mostafa (27 May 2017). "Libyan Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia says it is dissolving". Reuters...

Retrieved 30 September 2023. "Palestinian Al Quds Brigades claim responsibility for attack at Lebanon-Israel border". Al Arabiya. 9 October 2023. Retrieved 18...

Libyan civil war. After the war, he led the militant Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia's Derna branch. A disclosed file from 2005 on WikiLeaks alleged that he...

latest video claims to have links with Al-Qaeda in Yemen, which has a record of trying to down planes. Ansar al-Sharia (Egypt) Ahmed Ashoush, in 2012, claimed...

2015). "Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb backs jihadists fighting Islamic State in Derna, Libya". Long War Journal. "Suspected Leader of Pro-IS Al-Shabab...

are: the Islamist Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries, led by Ansar al-Sharia, which had the support of the GNC and was defeated in Benghazi in 2017;...

2014). "Profile: Libya's Ansar al-Sharia". BBC News. Hashem, Mostafa (27 May 2017). "Libyan Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia says it is dissolving". Reuters...

of the Islamic militant group Ansar al-Sharia. On September 11, 2012, at 9:40 p.m. local time, members of Ansar al-Sharia attacked the American diplomatic...

مع أنصار الشريعة" [Twenty-eight Al-Saiqa fighters killed in Benghazi since the beginning of clashes with Ansar al-Sharia]. Youm7. 29 July 2014. Archived...

which he had personally executed and previously planned while based in Ansar al-Sharia camps in Libya. Ashmawy was assigned the training of ABM recruits in...

the tactic on the battlefield. The group maintained close ties to Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia through networks in Libya and has established multiple training...

in the city. The Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries led by Ansar al-Sharia (Libya) has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United...

Muslim al-Turkmani, who led the military training. He later became a member of Ansar al-Islam. Ansar al-Islam evolved into Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna and Al-Qaduli...

were many members of the Derna branch of Ansar al-Sharia. During the next few months, they declared war on anyone in Derna who opposed them, killing...

from the country. The Tanasoh TV channel, leniency towards ISIS and Ansar-Al-Sharia; Sadiq Ghariani and the sudden radical-Islamist surge in Tripoli and...

Benghazi, Libya, composed of Islamist and jihadist militias, including Ansar al-Sharia, Libya Shield 1, and several other groups. The force was initially...

Muslim scholars and authors. Yusuf al-Qaradawi stated: "[The] declaration issued by the Islamic State is void under sharia and has dangerous consequences...

pushed out of Derna, the remaining IS stronghold of Sirte was captured in late 2016. Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamists led by Ansar al-Sharia have at the same...

of al-Qaeda, he reportedly also served as militant for Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna under Abu Ali al-Anbari and co-founded a militant base called the "al-Jazira...

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the LNA controlled at least 90% of the city, including Ansar Al-Sharia's main neighborhood of Al-Laithi, Benghazi University, and the Cement Factory. A...

as a member of the MSC's sharia committee. Following the renaming of the MSC as the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in 2006, al-Baghdadi became the general...

This came after the body of one of Ansar al-Sharia's leaders, Al-Mahdi Saad Abu al-Abyad, was found south of Derna. However, the militia group added that...

institution of Sharia at the state level of government. This was followed by controversy as to the would-be legal status of the non-Muslims in the Sharia system...

al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (more commonly known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq), Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah, Katbiyan Ansar Al-Tawhid wal Sunnah, Saraya al-Jihad...

partial control of the Libyan city of Derna and pledged their allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, thus making Derna the first city outside Syria and Iraq...