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The Sun
September 30, 2017
... Abdallah Azzam Brigades, including the Ziyad al Jarrah Battalions (AAB); Abu Nidal Organisation; Abu Sayyaf; Ajnad Misr; Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya; Al Ghurabaa; Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya; Al Murabitun; Al Qa'ida; Al-Shabaab; Ansar al-Islam; Ansar al-Sharia-Benghazi; Ansar Al Sharia Tunisia; Ansar Al SunnaÃÂ ...
Milli Gazette
June 19, 2017
In Fatwa number 6250, he said: “The most righteous Islamic groups and the closest to the teachings of the Prophet are Ahl Al-Sunnah, including Ahl Al-Hadith, Jamaat Ansar Al-Sunna and the Muslim Brotherhood. In general, all of the Islamic groups can be right or wrong at times, so you need to collaborateÃÂ ...
The Jamestown Foundation
May 5, 2017
... the purpose of opposing the occupation: Jaysh Rijal al-Tariq al-Naqshbandia; the 1920s Revolution Brigades (1920s RB), named after the historic Iraqi revolt against occupying British forces; the Islamic Army in Iraq (IAI); the Mujahideen Army (MA); Ansar al-Sunna Sharia (AS Shariah); and Hamas Iraq.
Kurdistan24
March 2, 2017
He also said he expected the new administration to be more active “in resolving political issues” that remain “outstanding” and which caused ISIS to emerge in the first place—and as Karim noted, “before that al-Qaida and before that Ansar al-Sunna and all the terrorist groups” before them. Will the defeat of IS merelyÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs
January 9, 2017
Just as ISIS members once came together from disparate groups such as Ansar al-Islam, Ansar al-Sunna, Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn, and the Islamic State of Iraq, they now return to the safety of small insurgency units. Although these groups' flags rotate regularly, the people carrying themÃÂ ...
VICE News
November 7, 2014
"It then mutated into Ansar al-Sunna and became more a part of the Sunni Arab insurgency, and then finally became Jamaat Ansar al-Islam, with a split-off in Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna." Al-Tamimi added: "The transition from Ansar al-Islam and its subsequent forms to the Islamic State is hardly surprising givenÃÂ ...
CNN
July 24, 2014
The following year, the Muslim extremist group Ansar al-Sunna threatened Norway with a 9/11-style attack unless part of the capital, Oslo, was turned into a Muslim nation, the International Business Times reported. "We do not wish to live together with dirty beasts like you," the group wrote in a letter toÃÂ ...
The Westerly Sun
July 29, 2017
2005 — The Battle of Haditha, Iraq, was fought between U.S. forces and Ansar al-Sunna in early August 2005 on the outskirts of the town, wasÃÂ ...
Milli Gazette
June 19, 2017
... the closest to the teachings of the Prophet are Ahl Al-Sunnah, including Ahl Al-Hadith, Jamaat Ansar Al-Sunna and the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Jamestown Foundation
May 5, 2017
... named after the historic Iraqi revolt against occupying British forces; the Islamic Army in Iraq (IAI); the Mujahideen Army (MA); Ansar al-SunnaÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
March 20, 2017
The Authority has categorically rejected the supplement's particulars. The Ansar al Sunna group went in the same direction and rejected theÃÂ ...
Kurdistan24
March 2, 2017
... emerge in the first place—and as Karim noted, “before that al-Qaida and before that Ansar al-Sunna and all the terrorist groups” before them.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
November 1, 2016
... organizations in Egypt, such as Ansar al-Sunna al-Muhammadiyya (the supporters of the Prophet's tradition), which was founded in 1926.
CNN
July 24, 2014
The following year, the Muslim extremist group Ansar al-Sunna threatened Norway with a 9/11-style attack unless part of the capital, Oslo, wasÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
March 20, 2017
Ms. Badriyya Suleiman, chairperson of the parliaments interim committee on constitutional amendments, has said her committee had listened to the views of Scholars Organization, the Jurisprudence Authority, the Ansar al-Sunna group, the Sufi groups andÃÂ ...
Eurasia Review
March 19, 2017
It was also an area where Ansar al-Sunna was very strong and that was the umbrella organization that sort of subsumed within it the Takfiris affiliated with al-Qaeda as well as the former regime element of the insurgency.
Al-Monitor
October 11, 2016
These include Hizb al-Tahrir (Freedom Party), Ansar al-Sunna (Defenders of the Sunnis) and Junud Ansar Allah (Heroic Defenders of Allah), the last of which Hamas almost crushed in 2009 after its leader, Sheikh Abdul Latif Musa, declared the ...
AllAfrica.com
September 5, 2016
... - Parliamentary committee reveal the suffering of Prisoners in Omdurman prison and the 1091 waiting for trial. - Ansar al-Sunna: Continuity to prevent religious discourse would lead to sectarian strife. - Education Ministry in Khartoum: School ...
AllAfrica.com
August 31, 2016
Verbal confrontations between Ansar al-Sunna and Sufism in Parliament. - Director of the Higher Unity School slaps representative of mothers' council.
AllAfrica.com
July 22, 2016
The Chairman of Ansar Al-Sunna, Sheikh Ismail Osman said that Sheikh Al-Shazri is visiting Sudan to participate in s scientific religious symposium and to visit a number of educational institutions, adding that Sheikh Al-Shazri has given a number of ...
CIMSEC
July 13, 2016
At the outset of this effort, Tal Afar was a training base for foreign fighters and home to cells from Al-Qaeda, Ansar Al-Sunna, and former Baathist elements. 3ACR began pushing into Tal Afar on September 2nd, 2005 and successfully cleared the city ...
The Guardian
July 7, 2016
When the US invaded Iraq, Jund al-Islam became Ansar al-Sunna, expanding its operations beyond northern Iraq by joining Sunni Salafi fighters in central Iraq.
The Indian Express
June 23, 2016
This is the second time in a gap of eight years that Nepalese labours were targeted abroad - first in Iraq in August 2004 by Ansar Al Sunna, and this time by the Taliban in Kabul on Saturday. Three army personnel, two from Nepal Police, and one each ...
Al-Arabiya
May 20, 2016
Expert on terrorist groups, Hisham al-Hashimi, says terror leaders who returned from Afghanistan included Mohammed Hussein al-Jubouri who is currently the leader of Ansar al-Sunna, deceased Mohammed al-Falastini, who was the leader of Jund al-AqsaÃÂ ...
Rudaw
April 21, 2016
"Prior to Daesh [ISIS] they were members of Ansar al-Sunna and the Naqshbandi Order and have committed multiple terror acts including the terror attack on Hama Khan Haji Dara, the KDP commander and three of his guards," Kurkuk's police chief SarhadÃÂ ...
Rudaw
March 28, 2016
The graveyards belong to the Ansar al-Sunna group, which took over parts of Hawraman for two years, until its fighters fled or were killed by US airstrikes in 2003.
Huffington Post UK
March 11, 2016
Groups such as Ansar al Sunna and its precursor Ansar al Islam, connected to al-Qaeda, and the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan (IMK) were successful in mobilising Iraqi Kurds against the Iraqi Kurdish government.
The National Interest Online
January 3, 2016
Sarhad Qadir, the police commander of Kirkuk district who is looked on as a kind of legendary figure in Kurdistan, says his forces confront not only ISIS but Ansar al-Sunna, Ansar al-Islam, Jeish Muhammed, Jaish al-Mujahideen, former Al Qaeda and ...
Al-Arabiya
December 26, 2015
He said Assafi was a member of the Islamic Army from 2003 to 2010 and then of the Ansar al-Sunna insurgent group. He pledged allegiance when ISIS took over in June 2014 and was made a militant chief in Riyadh, Juburi said.
