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Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat

January 24, 2020 GSPC Country: algeria

The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, known by the French acronym GSPC (Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat) is an Algerian terrorist faction in the Algerian Civil War founded in 1998 by Hassan Hattab, a former regional commander[...]

Salafia Jihadia

January 17, 2020 Salafia Jihadia Country: morocco

Salafia Jihadia (al-Salafiya al-jihadiya) is a Salafi jihadist militant group based in Morocco and Spain with links to Al-Qaeda. The group is associated with the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM), and in addition to a series of religiously sanctioned extrajudicial killings,[...]

Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group

January 10, 2020 GICM Country: morocco

The Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, known by the French acronym GICM (Groupe Islamique Combattant Marocain), is a Salafi jihadist terrorist organisation affiliated with Al-Qaeda. The GICM is one of several North African terrorist franchises spawned in Afghanistan during the tenure of[...]

Jamaat al Dawa al Quran

January 10, 2020 JDQ / Taliban Country: afghanistan

Jamaat al Dawa al Quran (JDQ, Society for the Call to the Quran), also known as Jama’at al-Da’wa ila al-Quran wal-Sunna (JDQS) and the Salafi Group, is a militant Islamist organisation operating in eastern Afghanistan. United States have declared and banned[...]

Popular Mobilization Forces

January 3, 2020 PMF Country: iraq

The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), also known as the People's Mobilization Committee (PMC) and the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) is an Iraqi state-sponsored umbrella organization composed of some 40 militias that are mostly Shia Muslim groups, but also including Sunni Muslim,[...]

Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades

December 27, 2019 Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades Country: palestine

The al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades is the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, a set of various Palestinian militant organizations that operate in the Gaza Strip. These brigades participated in Operation Dispersive Illusion, which resulted in the capture of the[...]

Jamaat-ul-Ahrar

December 27, 2019 Jamaat-ul-Ahrar Country: afghanistan

Jamaat-ul-Ahrar ("Assembly of the Free," abbreviated as JuA) is a terrorist organization that split away from Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in August 2014. The group came to prominence after it claimed responsibility for the 2014 Wagah border suicide attack. In October 2017, there[...]