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    Al-Qaeda in Iraq (Arabic: القاعدة في العراق, romanized: Al-Qāʿidah fī al-ʿIrāq; AQI), was a Salafi jihadist organization affiliated with al-Qaeda. It...
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    and al-Qaeda link allegations were based on false claims by the United States government alleging that a secretive relationship existed between Iraqi president...
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    by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi in 2004, the organisation (primarily under the Islamic State of Iraq name) affiliated itself with al-Qaeda in Iraq and fought alongside...
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    became known as "Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn" (commonly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq). In January 2006, AQI and seven other Sunni guerrilla...
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    Bilad al-Rafidayn, also known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), and al-Zarqawi was given the al-Qaeda title "Emir of Al Qaeda in the Country of Two Rivers". In September...
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    dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad. Al-Sharaa created the al-Nusra Front in 2012 with the support of al-Qaeda to fight the Assad regime in the Syrian civil war...
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  • Ali Al-Badawi (Arabic: عبد المنعم عز الدين علي البدوي), was an Egyptian militant leader who became the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq during the Iraqi insurgency...
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    governor of al Anbar province Iraq portal 2005 in Iraq 2006 in Iraq 2007 in Iraq 2008 in Iraq Abdul Sattar Abu Risha Al-Qaeda in Iraq Iraqi civil war (2006–2008)...
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  • Al-Qaeda has had five distinct phases in its development: its beginnings in the late 1980s, a "wilderness" period in 1990–1996, its "heyday" in 1996–2001...
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  • The 2008 al-Qaeda offensive in Iraq was a month-long offensive conducted by al-Qaeda in Iraq against the multinational coalition of USA, UK, Australia...
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    member of Al-Qaeda who is now in United States custody at Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. Al-Iraqi was born in Mosul to a Sunni Arab family in 1961...
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    The Islamic Army in Iraq (Arabic: الجيش الإسلامي في العراق, romanized: al-Jaysh al-Islāmi fī'l-`irāq, abbr. IAI) was an underground Islamist militant...
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    with al-Qaeda. In 2004, al-Qaeda launched its Iraqi regional branch. After pursuing him for almost a decade, the U.S. military killed bin Laden in Pakistan...
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    of Al-Qaeda are hiding along the border of Afghanistan and northwest sections of Pakistan. In Iraq, elements loosely associated with al-Qaeda, in the...
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    al-Qaeda killings in Iraq, Sunni insurgents in al-Anbar province led by former Ba'athist intelligence officer Ahmed Ftaikhan formed an anti-al-Qaeda militia...
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    and the group became known as Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (commonly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq or Tanzim). After several mergers with other...
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  • two Al-Qaeda affiliated groups, were merging into one group called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the leader of al-Nusra...
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    agent in the most senior levels of the radical organization, Ansar al-Islam, that controls this corner of Iraq. In 2000, this agent offered al-Qaeda a safe...
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  • The Islamic Army–Al-Qaeda conflict was part of the Iraqi civil war (2006–2008) and the Iraq War that followed the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The conflict was...
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  • part in the Iraqi insurgency against U.S.-led Coalition and Iraqi forces. The groups included in the MSC were: Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah...
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    Battle of Ramadi (2006) (category Battles of the Iraq War in 2006)
    promising Iraqi local election with over 80 percent voter turnout and 2-28 ID's success in recruiting 671 Iraqi police recruits, al-Qaeda in Iraq targeted...
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  • al-Qaeda, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (previously known as the al-Nusra Front) and al-Qaeda in Iraq. Al-Salam is a U.S. Department of the Treasury labeled Specially...
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    worldwide caliphate. In 2004, it became Tanẓīm Qāʻidat al-Jihād fī Bilād al-Rāfidayn, commonly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), when al-Zarqawi gave bay'ah...
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  • refer to: Jahafil Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad fi Filastin, an Islamist group in Gaza Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, a predecessor to Al Qaeda in Iraq and the Islamic...
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    that Hamas in Iraq was involved in assisting US troops in their Diyala operations against Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had...
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    decline of al-Qaeda". Maclean's. George W. Bush gambled on surging thousands more troops to the embattled country. It paid off. Al-Qaeda in Iraq is now a...
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    bombing of Al-Askari Shrine, considered a holy site in Twelver Shi'ism. US President George W. Bush and Iraqi officials accused Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) of...
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    Civil War in 2011, Islamic State of Iraq's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and al-Qaeda's central command authorized the Syrian Abu Mohammad al-Golani to...
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  • of al-Qaeda and members of Saddam Hussein's government, as well as other information relevant to conspiracy theories involving Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda...
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    excluding al-Qaeda and the Baath-party. This delimitation revealed a split between al-Qaeda and Ansar al-Sunna over tactics, alleged attacks on Iraqi Shia...
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