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 ...

Citing intelligence sources, Powell said a representative of Saddam had offered Ansar al-Islam a “safe haven” in the region. Ansar al-Islam, which means “supporters of Islam,” is based in ...

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 ...

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, April 6 -- Members of Ansar al-Islam, the extremist Muslim group pushed from its northern Iraq enclave by U.S. and Kurdish forces a week ago, have begun surrendering at the ...

The green mountain slopes bordering the city of Halabja, in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish area, have been home to the militants of Ansar Al-Islam for over a year.

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’s last claimed operation in Iraq was in 2014. That year, the jihadist group took part in the renewed Sunni insurgency in Iraq just prior to the Islamic State’s rampage through large ...

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.

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.

Mention of Ansar al-Islam's prewar existence in Iraq without the qualification that it operated outside of Saddam's control surfaced on Fox News Sunday from the mouth of Paul Bremer on August 24 ...

A radical imam allegedly abducted by CIA agents in Italy shortly before the U.S. invasion of Iraq was identified as a key figure in a jihadi network supplying foreign fighters for Ansar Al-Islam ...