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 ...

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.

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.

Iraqi security forces backed by US advisers have captured the head of the al Qaeda-linked Ansar al Islam. Abu Abdullah al Shafi, the leader of Ansar al Islam, or Partisans of Islam, was detained along ...

As strict Muslims, Drissi and Trabelsi simply admired Ansar al Islam’s campaign to impose Taliban-style fundamentalism in northern Iraq, said the lawyer, Franco Antoneoli.

Ansar al Islam began as an Islamic Kurd group but shifted its role after the U.S. assault in Afghanistan. This is an undated photo released in Amman, Jordan, Saturday, ...

Ansar al-Islam, a small Sunni jihadist group, has claimed responsibility for a raid against Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Latakia province. The group released a set of photos documenting the raid, which ...

W hen 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.

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – The United States and Britain ordered financial sanctions Thursday against a Kurdish Islamic group suspected of harboring Al Qaeda fugitives from Afghanistan. The action was taken ...

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.