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 ...

Jashimuddin Rahmani, the leader of banned Islamist militant group Ansarullah Bangladesh (ABT) - now known as Ansar al Islam - was released in August after a court granted him bail. He was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iyad Ag Ghali, the central leader of the 1990 rebellion in Mali, formed Ansar al-Din in late 2011. The group quickly emerged around a core of Ifoghas Tuareg and longtime companions of Ag Ghali, ...