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Free Aceh Movement (until 2005) al-Qaeda in Iraq (until 2006) Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (until 2007) Tunisian Combatant Group (until 2011) Islamic State of Iraq (until 2013) MOJWA (until 2013) Ansar al-Islam (until 2014) Jundallah [28] Tehreek-e-Khilafat [29] (until November 2014) Hizbul Islam (until 2014) Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (until ...
Sexual jihad (Arabic: جهاد النكاح, romanized: jihad al-nikah) refers to the alleged practice in which women sympathetic to Jihadist extremism travel to war zones such as Syria and voluntarily offer themselves to be "married" to jihadist militants, often repeatedly and in temporary marriages, serving sexual comfort roles to help boost the fighters' morale.
SARC (from 2014) SLFA (from 2017) SLA-Unity; SLMJ; JEM (Jali) Supported by: South Sudan Chad (2005–2010) Eritrea (until 2008) Libya (until 2011) Uganda (until 2015) 2003 2011 Iraq War. Part of the Iraqi conflict. Invasion phase (2003) United States United Kingdom Australia Poland Peshmerga Supported by: Netherlands Italy Post-invasion (2003–11)
Great Turkish War: 14 July 1683: 26 January 1699: 15 years, 6 months, 1 week and 5 days Lebanese Civil War: 13 April 1975: 13 October 1990: 15 years and 6 months Rhodesian Bush War: 4 July 1964: 12 December 1979: 15 years, 5 months, 1 week and 1 day Morean War: 1684: 1699: 15 years Jewish–Babylonian War: 601 BC: 586 BC: 15 years Cambodian ...
A car bomb killed 18 people, including women and children, in central Hama province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights organization. [10] [11] The New York Times reported that Islamic extremist groups in Syria with ties to al-Qaeda try to identify, recruit and train Americans and other Westerners who had traveled there to get them to carry out attacks when they return home.
13 July: The bodies of 12 men, presumably killed while captive, were found in Tawakkul village northeast of Baquba. [68] 16 July: Forty-two captured Iraqi soldiers were killed by IS in Awenat, south of Tikrit. [68] 15 July: A new attempt by the Iraqi Army to recapture Tikrit was repelled; 52 Iraqi soldiers and 40 IS members were killed in the ...
ISIS was believed to have only 2,000–3,000 fighters up until the Mosul campaign, but during that campaign, it became evident that this number was a gross underestimate. [ 78 ] Also in June, there were reports that a number of Sunni groups in Iraq that were opposed to the predominantly Shia government had joined ISIL, thus bolstering the group ...
From the time of Muhammad, the final prophet of Islam, many Muslim states and empires have been involved in warfare. The concept of Jihad, the religious duty to struggle, has long been associated with struggles for promoting a religion, although some observers refer to such struggle as "the lesser jihad" by comparison with inner spiritual striving.