Ansar Dine (Arabic: أنصار الدين ʾAnṣār ad-Dīn, also transliterated Ançar Deen), meaning "helpers of the religion" (Islam) (Defenders of the Faith) and...

initially backed by the Islamist group Ansar Dine. After the Malian military was driven from northern Mali, Ansar Dine and a number of smaller Islamist groups...

Mali, although this move was reversed on 1 April. The Islamist group Ansar Dine, too, began fighting the government in later stages of the conflict, claiming...

against jihadi extremists in 2012. He claimed that jihadi groups, and the Ansar Dine in particular, had been in the region of Azawad for 10 years before the...

crimes, a conclusion supported by the ICC. By 1 April 2012 the MNLA and Ansar Dine were in control of virtually all of northern Mali, including its three...

Jihadist organisation in the Maghreb and West Africa formed by the merger of Ansar Dine, the Macina Liberation Front, al-Mourabitoun and the Saharan branch of...

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...

Sufi-based Islamic movement Ansar Dine (also written Ançar Dine) - not to be confused with the terrorist organization Ansar Dine operating in the north of...

1977) is a Malian Islamist militant and convicted war criminal who joined Ansar Dine in early 2012 and became an interpreter and administrator of the Islamic...

captured from the Malian military by the Tuareg rebels of the MNLA and Ansar Dine. Five days later, the MNLA declared the region independent of Mali as...

be independent from Mali. The MNLA were initially backed by Ansar Dine. However, Ansar Dine and other Islamist groups, including Movement for Oneness and...

militant Islamist group that operates in Mali. It is an affiliate of Ansar Dine. In March 2012, the President of Mali Amadou Toumani Touré was ousted...

switched to Ansar Dine. In Ansar Dine, he claimed to fight to establish Sharia law in northern Mali. Alghabass quickly became the face of Ansar Dine in political...

state Azawad. Another party in the rebellion, the militant Islamist group Ansar Dine, denounced the presence of popular music in the territory, and Tinariwen...

he featured as the founder and leader of the Islamist militant group Ansar Dine. Born in 1954 into a noble family of the Ifogha tribal group (an influential...

Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi (also known as Abu Tourab) was a member of Ansar Dine, a Tuareg Islamist militia in North Africa. Al-Mahdi admitted guilt in the...

this group is in contrast to that of the Tuareg-dominated Ansar Dine. Like the other Ansar al-Sharia groups, the branch in Mali is described as based...

National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and the Islamist Ansar Dine against the city. The new group claimed to oppose both the independence...

Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA), along with its ally Ansar Dine, in Gao between 26–28 June 2012. By the 28 June, Gao, Timbuktu and Kidal...

group was founded by Alghabass Ag Intalla, and emerged after a split from Ansar Dine following French intervention in northern Mali. The MIA was founded in...

Ansar al-Din may refer to: Ansar Dine, an Islamist militant organization based in Mali. Ansar al-Din Front, an Islamist militant organization based in...

Azawad. In June 2012, the MNLA came into conflict with the Islamist groups Ansar Dine and the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA), after the...

began to escalate. In Mali, the Ansar Dine faction was also reported as an ally of al-Qaeda in 2013. The Ansar al Dine faction aligned themselves with...

the game Defenders of the Faith (Puerto Rico), a Christian denomination Ansar Dine (Arabic, 'defenders of the faith'), a militant Islamist group in Mali...

Ag Inawalen, nom de guerre Bana, was a Malian soldier and jihadist in Ansar Dine. Ag Inawalen was born in Abeïbara, Kidal Region, Mali. He was a colonel...

mostly women and children. On 1 July 2012, militant Islamists of the Ansar Dine ("defenders of faith") began destroying the tombs of Timbuktu shortly...

Jihadist groups that were predominantly composed of ethnic groups, such as Ansar Dine led by Iyad Ag Ghaly and predominantly composed of Ifoghas Tuaregs and...

"Mali: un soldat français tué, le groupe Ansar Dine revendique" [Mali: a French soldier killed, the Ansar Dine group claims]. AFP. 5 November 2016. Retrieved...

his tomb had been destroyed by Ansar Dine following the Battle of Gao, as it contravened sharia according to Ansar Dine. These attacks resemble those carried...

in northern Mali. It was one of the first clashes between the MNLA and Ansar Dine, and led to the latter taking control of the city in June 2012. During...