• 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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  • Mujahideen in 1989. Ansarul Islam (Sahel), an organization in Burkina Faso and Mali. Jabhat Ansar al-Islam, Syrian rebel group. Ansar-ul-Hussain, a Parachinar-based...
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    Jabhat Ansar al-Din (Arabic: جبهة أنصار الدين, lit. 'Supporters of the Religion Front') is a jihadist alliance that announced itself on 25 July 2014,...
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    Jaysh al-Ahrar (an Ahrar al-Sham faction), Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS), Ansar al-Din Front, Jaysh al-Sunna, Liwa al-Haqq, and the Nour al-Din al-Zenki...
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    forming Jabhat al-Nusra or another leader in the Islamic State of Iraq; however, what is certain is that al-Sharaa became the "general emir" of al-Nusra...
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    Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra or Jabhat Nusrat Ahl al-Sham, also known as Front for the Conquest of the Levant, and also later known as Jabhat Fatah...
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  • the Ansar al-Sharia alliance alongside Ahrar al-Sham, Al-Nusra and Jabhat Ansar al-Din. Al-Tamimi, Aymenn Jawad. "The Qamishli Front". Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi...
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    Brigade Ahrar al halab (jabhat Ansar Al halab) left in 2015 and merged with kata'ib Jabhat Ansar Al Sham to create harakat jabhat ansar al sham al islamiyya...
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    and took control of a reported 80% of Jabhat al-Nusra's foreign fighters. In January 2014, ISIL expelled Jabhat al-Nusra from the Syrian city of Raqqa,...
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    both Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic State have been described as Salafi-jihadist terrorist organizations. Originating in the Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah...
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    Kata'ib Ansar al-Sham (Arabic: كتائب أنصار الشام, Supporters of the Levant Brigades) is an armed Sunni Islamist rebel group active in the Syrian Civil...
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  • group, the Islamic Front the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front the foreign Russian-speaking jihadist group Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar and the anti-ISIL...
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    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...
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    from al-Qaeda and became ISIL) Al-Qaeda in the Lands Beyond the Sahel (inactive since 2015) Ansar al-Islam (majority merged with ISIL in 2014) Ansar Dine...
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  • powerful in Syria. In late 2016, al-Turkistani took part in talks between the al-Nusra Front (by then renamed to "Jabhat Fateh al-Sham") and various other rebel...
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    countries have gone to Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan to join the Islamic State or Jabhat al Nusra. IS relies mostly on captured weapons with major sources...
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    organization to Jabhat al-Nusra that until 2016 was al-Qaeda's official branch in Syria, and has supported and maintained relations with Jund al-Islam through...
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    The Islamic Front (Arabic: الجبهة الإسلامية, al-Jabhat al-Islāmiyyah) was a Sunni Islamist rebel alliance involved in the Syrian Civil War, which was...
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    several other Aleppo-based jihadist factions into an alliance called Jabhat Ansar al-Din. In late 2014, the Saudi-dominated faction Green Battalion swore...
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  • 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...
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    Syrian Goverment and allies, the Syrian opposition and allies, Al-Qaeda and affiliates, Islamic State, and the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces. A number of...
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  • Alwiya al-Furqan was an Islamist faction under the FSA umbrella that fought primarily in the Quneitra Governorate up until 2018. Jabhat Ansar al-Islam was...
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  • Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin, West Africa and Maghreb Ansar al-Islam, Iraq Ansar al-Sharia, Libya Al-Umar-Mujahideen, Kashmir Armed Islamic Group (GIA)...
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    Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, simply known as al-Shabaab, or by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Somalia, is a transnational Salafi Jihadist...
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    document on which the new group is based, saying it was written to ensure an Islamic government after Assad is toppled. Col. Hallak was quoted as saying: “The...
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  • Ansar al-Islam began attacking Islamic State positions. The clashes continued for months, in which the Islamic State dominated. Some Jama'at Ansar al-Islam...
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    renamed Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS), in October 2016. However, on 23 January 2017, JFS declared that Jund Al-Aqsa was no longer part of Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham...
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    al-Islam (Arabic: كتيبة جبل الإسلام, romanized: Katībat Jabal al-Islām, lit. 'Mountain of Islam Battalion', Turkish: İslam Dağı Taburu) or Jabal al-Islam...
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    Green Battalion (category Factions of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant)
    July 2014 that it became part of Jabhat Ansar al-Din. The group claimed allegiance to Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar around October 2014. List of armed...
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    for Qaedat Al-Jihad group, under the (al-Qaeda) general command. The seat of the Islamic State in Iraq is in Iraq. The seat of Jabhat Al-Nusra for the...
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