Abu Abdullah al Shafi, the top leader of Ansar al Islam, was captured along with seven associates during a raid in Baghdad. Shafi has close ties with Osama bin Laden.

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.

Ansar al-Islam raided an Assad regime military position in the Latakia province yesterday, killing more than two dozen Assad loyalists. The attack was widely celebrated on Sunni jihadist social media ...

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 ...

By December 10, 2001 the two groups had merged together and Ansar al-Islam was born. Dan Darling is a counter-terrorism consultant for the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Policing Terrorism.

Asked whether any leaders of Ansar al-Islam had been captured, he said, “They escaped.” “Perhaps there will remain some remnants of the terrorists in towns and villages,” Talabani said.

CREMONA, Italy — Days before the fall of the Ansar al Islam terrorist group in northern Iraq last month, an alleged Ansar militant named Noureddine Drissi got an urgent call on his satellite ...

The Iraqi militant group Ansar al Islam, announced the launch of its own jihadi media outlet in an Internet statement posted on the popular al Ekhlaas forum Friday. The group, which is also known ...

The Ansar al Islam insurgent group released a short video depicting an IED attack on a U.S. armored vehicle in what the group said was al Ma'ash market in Mosul.

CREMONA, Italy — Days before the fall of the Ansar al Islam terrorist group in northern Iraq last month, an alleged Ansar militant named Noureddine Drissi got an urgent call on his satellite ...

Ansar al Islam is far from over. Xulhaz Mannan, an LGBT rights activist, and his friend Khandoker Mahbub Rabby Tonoy, were the victims of its last targeted killing in Dhaka in 2016. For all latest ...

WASHINGTON — An Al Qaeda-linked militant group that was chased from its main base in northern Iraq in the first weeks of the Iraq war has emerged as the key organized terrorist threat to U.S ...