Ansar al Islam’s new flag. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group. The al Qaeda-linked Ansar al Islam released a statement announcing the name of its new leader ...

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An Ansar al Sharia Libya truck convoy. This image was posted on one of Ansar al Sharia’s Twitter feeds on October 28. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a regional branch of al Qaeda’s ...

When U.S. special forces led an assault in March on a compound in northern Iraq belonging to the militant group Ansar al-Islam, U.S. officials said they had taken out a significant terrorist threat.

Ansar al-Islam ("Supporters of Islam") was formed in December 2001, one of numerous small splinter factions in the region of northern Iraq that is controlled by ethnic Kurds, according to U.S.

Until Sept. 11, 2001, the radical Islamic group Ansar al-Islam was considered a local problem. Based in the Kurdish controlled areas of northern Iraq, with a membership of militant fundamentalists ...

IRBIL, Iraq — The grainy photographs depict a tall, expressionless man in his 20s, standing head and shoulders above the other well-wishers in a reception line at a Kurdistan Democratic Party office.