الإسلامي, romanized: Tanẓīm al-Qā'idah fī Bilād al-Maghrib al-Islāmī), or AQIM, is an Islamist militant organization (of al-Qaeda) that aims to overthrow...

itself with al-Qaeda to eventually become al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). The Algerian and other Maghreb governments fighting the militants have...

Islamist Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). In December 2012, Belmokhtar announced he was leaving AQIM and headed his own organization, dubbed the...

of the Algerian Islamic militant group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), formerly the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). He was killed...

of the Algerian Islamic militant group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), formerly the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). In November...

Maghreb (AQIM) ambushed Mauritanian soldiers in the village of Tourine, near Zouérat, Mauritania. The ambush was the first major attack by AQIM during the...

Mauritanian forces launched a raid on an Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) base in Tombouctou Region, Mali, in an attempt to rescue French hostage...

Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Mauritanian forces in Bassikounou, Mauritania. Between 2005 and 2011, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) had a stronghold...

in the Islamic Maghreb, the Al Qaeda affiliate in North and West Africa. AQIM grew out of Algerian Islamist groups that had fought in the 1990s Civil War...

of the top three military commanders of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a Mali-based militant organization. He competed as the chief rival of Mokhtar...

Abdelmalek Droukdel. The AQIM group was composed of Abdelmalek Droukdel, the leader of AQIM, Toufik Chaib, a senior leader of AQIM in charge of propaganda...

al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) have been engaging the Algerian government in an insurgency campaign in the Maghreb. AQIM fighters are mostly drawn from...

between Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Malian forces near Araouane, Mali. On June 11, 2009, AQIM jihadists assassinated Malian officer Lamana...

in the Sahel. Mauritanian forces launched an offensive against a group of AQIM jihadists in Malian territory on September 17. In the months prior to the...

wa al-Muslimin, and their allegiance to al-Qaeda Emir Ayman al-Zawahiri, AQIM's Emir, Abdelmalek Droukdel, and Taliban Emir, Hibatullah Akhundzada. They...

defeat al-Qaeda's affiliate AQIM. Malian and Mauritanian forces launched the joint offensive at 5:45pm into the forest. AQIM jihadists were protected by...

Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in 2010. In AQIM, he was initially under the orders of Abou Zeid, but as increased numbers of Tuareg fighters joined AQIM and did not...

Ham of the U.S. Army said that al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), and the Nigeria-based Boko Haram were attempting to coordinate their activities...

Islamist AQIM. Wolfram Lacher, an analyst of the Mali conflict, noted that the leaders of the FNLA/MAA had close family and commercial ties with AQIM, and...

hundred men from Boko Haram and one of five katiba brigade-battalions from AQIM, katiba Al-Mouthalimin, commanded by Mokhtar Belmokhtar. Belmokhtar was suspected...

Ansarul Islam The black flag variant used by AQIM. Leaders Ibrahim Malam Dicko (2016-2017) Abdoul Salam Dicko (2017-Present) Dates of operation December...

Maghreb (AQIM) in mid-2011 with the alleged goal of spreading jihad further into areas of West Africa that were not within the scope of AQIM. Some analysts...

Kheirou joined AQIM in 2009, supplying Mokhtar Belmokhtar's katiba in northern Mali along with making explosives. During his time in AQIM, Kheirou criticized...

Massif, a skirmish occurred between a detachment of the Nigerien army and AQIM fighters. According to a statement from the Nigerien Ministry of Defense...

reported to be linked to an offshoot of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) that is led by his cousin Hamada Ag Hama as well as Algeria's Département...

Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) Al Shabaab Hurras al-Din Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) The following...

Islamist groups including Ansar Dine and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), who had helped the MNLA defeat the government, turned on the Tuareg and...

including Boko Haram, Islamic State and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), have greatly exacerbated the violence, extremism and instability of the...

On August 3, 2015, jihadists from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) launched an attack on Malian forces in Gourma-Rharous, Mali. Eleven Malian soldiers...

before the battle in Garn-Akassa, AQIM the English hostage Edwin Dyer, sparking international condemnation. A week later, AQIM assassinated the Malian colonel...