Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan (Kurdish: ئەنسارولئیسلام له کوردستاندا), simply called Ansar al-Islam (Kurdish: ئەنسارولئیسلام), is a Kurdish Islamist militant...

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...

was a military conflict in Iraqi Kurdistan between the Islamist militant group Ansar al-Islam and its allies against the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)...

Iraq in 2014. The vast majority of Kurdish jihadists belonged to Ansar al-Islam, and when the Islamic State got closer to Kurdistan, Ansar al-Islam considered...

al-Baghdadi as the caliph. Ansar al-Islam and the Kurdistan Brigades, two closely allied groups, were the top jihadist groups among Kurds. Ansar al-Islam...

founded by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi in 2004, the organization (primarily under the Islamic State of Iraq name) affiliated itself with al-Qaeda in Iraq and fought...

The Kurdistan Islamic Movement (Kurdish: بزووتنه‌وی ئيسلامی له‌ كوردستان, romanized: Bizûtineweyî Îslamî le Kurdistan, Tevgera Îslamî ya Kurdistanê in the...

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 in 2011...

this rule, Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan harassed Sufi sheikhs and bombed their khanqahs and dargahs. Unlike the Salvation Force, Ansar al-Islam took a harder...

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...

Damascus-based Jaysh al-Islam (formerly part of Syrian Islamic Liberation Front) Ansar al-Sham (formerly part of the Syrian Islamic Front) Kurdish Islamic Front The...

 شُهَدَاء [ʃuhadaː]) denotes a martyr in Islam. The word is used frequently in the Quran in the generic sense of "witness" but only once in the sense of "martyr" (i...

Ansar al-Khilafah Brazil (Portuguese: Ansar al-Khilafah Brasil, Arabic: أنصار الخلافة البرازيل, romanized: Anṣār al-khilāfah al-Barāzīl, lit. 'Supporters...

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Ansar al-Tawhid (Arabic: أنصار التوحيد, lit. 'Supporters of monotheism') is an armed Islamist group fighting in the Syrian Civil War. The group is made...

place in northern Iraq, commonly known as Iraqi Kurdistan. The goal of the operation was to eliminate Ansar al-Islam and dismantle the Islamic Emirate...

merged with Noor al-Deen al-Zenki, Liwa al-Haqq, Ansar al-Din Front, Jaysh al-Sunna and elements of Ahrar al-Sham to form Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Following...

Shi'a version of an Islamic prayer was recited by some of those present in the room while Saddam recited a Sunni version of an Islamic prayer. One observer...

The Kurdistan Brigades were founded in 2001 in the Hamrin Mountains, as an official faction of Al-Qaeda. It was founded by former Ansar al-Islam militants...

in 2002 by the Patriotic Union with support from the United States and the CIA as a response to the growing influence and threat from Ansar al-Islam in...

The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI; Arabic: دولة العراق الإسلامية Dawlat al-ʿIrāq al-ʾIslāmiyyah) was a Salafi jihadist militant organization that fought the...

between Jaysh al-Ahrar (an Ahrar al-Sham faction), Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS), Ansar al-Din Front, Jaysh al-Sunna, Liwa al-Haqq, and Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement...

al-Shafi'i (Arabic: ابو عبدالله الشافعي; Father of Abdullah, the Shafi'i), (born in Zakho, Iraqi Kurdistan), is the former leader of Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna...

aimed to impose strict Islamic law and was aligned with the ideology of al-Qaeda and is believed to have been aided by ISIS. Jund Ansar Allah, translated as...

existing in eastern Syria, in particular in Hasakah and having a pro-Caliphate outlook, that allied with ISIL and held ties with Ansar al-Islam with a number...

Islamonationalist militant group which are an offshoot of Ansar al-Islam. They are based in the disputed territories of northern Iraq opposed to the Iraqi...

Liwa al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar (LMA, Arabic: لواء المهاجرون والأنصار), Brigade of Emigrants and Supporters or literally Banner of the Emigrants and Supporters)...

located in the Avroman region, a Kurdish Salafist group called Ansar al-Islam, along with the Kurdistan Islamic Group and Kurdistan Islamic Movement...

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (Arabic: حركة الجهاد الإسلامي في فلسطين, Harakat al-Jihād al-Islāmi fi Filastīn), commonly known simply as Palestinian...

the Islamic prophet Muhammad) about jihad, typically under the headings of kitab al-jihad (book of jihad) or faza'il al-jihad (virtues of jihad) in hadith...