including Ansar al-Islam, a designated foreign terrorist organization.” Al-Jayab, who returned to California in January 2014 and was arrested on terrorism-related charges this year, was already ...

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the activities of the Al Qaeda linked Ansar al-Islam group, which had carved out a tyrannical Islamic State-like enclave in Iraqi Kurdistan; new insight into what US intelligence knew about Iraq’s ...

The suicide attack was likely carried out by al Qaeda in Iraq or Ansar al Islam (Ansar al Sunnah), as both groups use this tactic. The last major coordinated attack took place two weeks ago, on Dec.

This analysis of JNIM was published in 2018 and is not being updated. For a more recent analysis of JNIM from the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program, please click here. JNIM, whose name ...

Over the decades, the group has played a complex role in Kurdish politics, participating in intra-Kurdish conflicts and experiencing splits that led to the creation of groups like Ansar al-Islam, ...

Iyad Ag Ghali, the central leader of the 1990 rebellion in Mali, formed Ansar al-Din in late 2011. The group quickly emerged around a core of Ifoghas Tuareg and longtime companions of Ag Ghali, ...