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    Al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula (Arabic: القاعدة في شبه جزيرة سيناء, romanized: al-Qā‘idah fī shibh Jazīrat Sīnāʼ), or AQSP, is an Egyptian militant jihadist...
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    Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (Arabic: تنظيم القاعدة في بلاد المغرب الإسلامي, romanized: Tanẓīm al-Qā'idah fī Bilād al-Maghrib al-Islāmī)...
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    terrorist group based in Sinai from 2011-14. Ansar Bait al-Maqdis was linked to al-Qaeda from 2011 to 2014. It operated in the Sinai Peninsula, focused its efforts...
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    Jund al-Islam was an active armed insurgent group affiliated with al-Qaeda operating primarily in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. The group was established in 2011...
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    Al-Qaeda (/ælˈkaɪdə, ˌælkɑːˈiːdə/; Arabic: القاعدة, romanized: al-Qāʿidah, lit. 'the Base', IPA: [alˈqaː.ʕi.da]) is a pan-Islamist militant organization...
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    The 2004 Sinai bombings were three bomb attacks targeting tourist hotels in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, on 7 October 2004. The attacks left 34 people dead...
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    "eradicate." The community had been repeatedly threatened to refrain from Sufi practices. Jund al-Islam, an al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group in Sinai who were...
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    that was active in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Sinai Province was originally known as Ansar Bait al-Maqdis (ABM)...
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    The Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen is an ongoing armed conflict between the Yemeni government, the United States and their allies, and al-Qaeda-affiliated...
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  • Strip. Following the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, militant organizations increased their activity in the Sinai Peninsula, and some al-Qaeda-linked groups...
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  • 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2018. Wright, Lawrence (2006). The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 107–108, 185...
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    Islamist Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip and the Sinai peninsula, and is the branch of al-Qaeda in Gaza. The establishment of the group was publicly announced...
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    origins were in the Jai'sh al-Taifa al-Mansurah organization founded by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi in 2004, which fought alongside al-Qaeda during the Iraqi insurgency...
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  • of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) branch in the Sinai Peninsula Abu Ubaidah al-Masri (died 2007), an al-Qaeda operative in Pakistan...
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    and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Formed in the mid-2000s as part of the Islamic Courts Union, al-Shabaab came to prominence during the 2006–2009...
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  • of Salafist jihadists in the Sinai Peninsula announced the formation of a group called Ansar al-Sharia in Egypt. At the time of this announcement, it...
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    The Sinai insurgency was an insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, launched by Islamist militants against Egyptian security forces, which have also...
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    2006 Dahab bombings (category Terrorist incidents in the Sinai Peninsula)
    The Dahab bombings of 24 April 2006 were three bomb attacks on the Egyptian resort city of Dahab, in the Sinai Peninsula. The resort town is popular with...
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  • The Abdullah Azzam Brigades (Arabic: كتائب عبد الله عزام), or al-Qaeda in Lebanon, is a Sunni Islamist militant group, and al-Qaeda's branch in Lebanon...
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    law in Egypt. Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian doctor and leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad group, was believed to be behind the operations of al-Qaeda. As...
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  • branch in the Sinai Peninsula, known as Wilayat Sinai. Abu Osama is believed to have been born in North Sinai and grew up in Sharqiya in the Nile Delta...
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    Operation Sinai is an ongoing Egyptian military campaign, launched in early August 2012, against Islamic militants within the Sinai Peninsula to crush the Sinai...
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    with Al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula as of August 2012. In February 2014, the group declared its support for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The group...
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  • Al-Salafiya Al-Jihadiya in the Sinai (Arabic: السلفية الجهادية في سيناء, romanized: al-Salafīyah al-jihādīyah fī Sīnāʼ, lit. 'Salafi Jihadist Movement...
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    06:13 local time EST (04:13 UTC), the Airbus A321-231 operating the flight exploded above the northern Sinai Peninsula following its departure from Sharm...
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    and launching the Infitah economic policy. As President, he led Egypt in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to regain Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had...
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  • Raid on Yakla (category Al Bayda Governorate in the Yemeni civil war (2014–present))
    presidency. The mission's goal was to gather intelligence on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and to target the group's leader, Qasim al-Raymi. The raid was...
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    Egyptian military campaign in the Sinai Peninsula, that was launched in August 2011 to confront the Sinai insurgency. The campaign was aimed against Islamist...
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    of Iraq and the Levant, al Shabaab, Jabhat al-Nusrah, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) despite al-Qaeda's traditional focus on the "far enemy" (US...
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  • The raid on Al Hathla was a military operation launched by the United States military, against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula forces in Ma'rib Governorate...
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