Katibat Junud al-Makhdi
highlights:
Key Members: Sayfuddin al-Tatari;
Operational Area: Latakia Governorate, Syria;
Size: 400;
Involved In: Bomb Attacks, Armed Attacks;
Connected With:
Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria The Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria is the Syrian branch… [+]
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Connected Events:
- Foreign terrorists advertise role in fighting in Syria’s northwestern Latakia Province As the fighting in Syria’s northwestern Latakia Province continues, several… [+]
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General Info:
Katibat Junud al-Makhdi (also known as Junud al-Makhdi) is an active terrorist group created by a merger of two smaller groups operating in northern Syria, composed exclusively of Tatar and Bashkir fighters mainly from Tatarstan and Bashkortostan as well as other areas in Syria with Tatar and Bashkir populations.
The group was created by a merger of Jamaat Bulgar and Jaish al-Shomal al-Islam in mid-2016 (each made up of Tatar fighters from Syria).
Jamaat Bulgar was initially founded in Afghanistan with its headquarters in Waziristan by an Avar from Dagestan and its fighters fought alongside the Taliban while not being formally part of it for 10 years and became involved in the Syrian Civil War during the beginning with several fighters arriving in 2012.
The second group was founded in Syria to combat the Assad regime. The leader of Jaish al-Shomal al-Islam is the current leader of the Junud al-Makhdi.
The group cooperates with the Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria as well as local Syrian Turkmen Brigades in the Latakia Governorate because of linguistic similarities in the Turkic languages.
The group also calls on Russian Muslims to join its ranks as well as wage war domestically, and claims to have members active in both Russia and Yemen.
