Search results
The group is believed to have started bomb attacks in Iraq as of August 2003, five months after the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the Iraq War, targeting UN representatives, Iraqi Shiite institutions, the Jordanian embassy, provisional Iraqi government institutions.
- Shosei Koda
Shosei Koda (香田 証生, Kōda Shōsei, 29 November 1979 – 29...
- Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda in Iraq (became the Islamic State of Iraq, which...
- Shosei Koda
Al-Qaeda in Iraq, militant Sunni network, active in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion of 2003, first led by Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi to oppose the U.S. occupation and the Shi’i-dominated Iraqi government. Later merging with smaller groups in Iraq and Syria, it was a key player in the rise of ISIL.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · al-Qaeda, broad-based militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s and became one of the world’s most notorious terrorist organizations after carrying out the attacks of September 11, 2001.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
6 days ago · Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), transnational insurgent group based in western Iraq and eastern Syria. Originally an affiliate of al-Qaeda, ISIL declared the establishment of a caliphate amid significant territorial gains in 2014.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn, more commonly known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq, was a Salafi jihadist organization affiliated with Al-Qaeda. It was founded on 17 October 2004, and was led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri until its disbandment on 15 October 2006.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed by US forces and Iraq's former dictator and deposed president Saddam Hussein was hanged for crimes against humanity – his involvement in the 1982 massacre. The civil war was fought from 2006 to 2008.
