However, both of them were arrested earlier for their alleged involvement in assisting members of banned militant outfit ...

Ansar al Islam’s branch in Syria is fighting against Kurdish forces in the Ashrafiyeh neighborhood of Aleppo, the largest city in the country. The People’s Protection Units (YPG), the main Kurdish ...

US forces in Iraq have captured one of the most senior members of Ansar al-Islam, an extremist group suspected of having ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaida network. The arrest of Aso Hawleri ...

The suspected leader of a Kurdish Islamic extremist group threatened during an interview published Saturday to produce evidence of his contacts with Washington prior to the September 11 attacks.

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 ...

The Caucasus Emirate in Syria is not the only al Qaeda-linked group fighting the Kurds in Sheikh Maqsud. Ansar al Islam, which was originally founded in Iraq in 2001, has reported its forces are ...

Dicko was a Peul commander linked to Ansar al-Din who was arrested by French forces in Mali in ... The insurgency has quickly expanded since then. Today, Ansarul Islam is composed largely of Peul ...