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 ...

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 threat.

The U.S. military has confirmed the death of a senior member of an al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist organization in Syria, U.S.

Iraqi Security Forces backed by US advisors conducted a major bust in northern Iraq. Ten members of the al Qaeda-linked Ansar al Islam, including the group’s deputy leader and the chief fiancier, were ...

Germany’s federal prosecutor has charged an Iraqi national with providing financial aid and logistical support to the Ansar al-Islam terrorist group. The man, identified only as Burhan B., is alleged ...

Krekar, born Najm al-Din Faraj Ahmad, was granted political asylum as a Kurdish refugee by Norway in 1991. But in the years since, he is known to have frequently visited Kurdistan in northern Iraq, ...

Ansar al-Islam was listed on 24 February 2003 pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 2 of resolution 1390 (2002) being associated with Al-Qaida, Usama bin Laden or the Taliban for “participating in the ...

IRBIL, Iraq — The grainy photographs depict a tall, expressionless man in his 20s, standing head and shoulders above the other well-wishers in a reception line at a Kurdistan Democratic Party office.

In the immediate aftermath of the deadliest postwar bombing in Iraq on Tuesday, U.S. and Iraqi officials pointed the finger at the shadowy al-Qaida-linked terrorist group, Ansar al-Islam, and its ...

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. forces ...

IN A LETTER WRITTEN to the al Qaeda leadership in early 2004, Abu Musab Zarqawi described the Iraqi Kurds in less than favorable terms. As far as Zarqawi was concerned, they were “a Trojan horse” who ...

Hit list of anti-Islam bloggers, writers compiled by Bangladesh group A hit list, published by an Islamist sect in Bangladesh, promises to kill writers and bloggers around the world who are critical ...