Jihadist groups

Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Islamist jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate. Its membership is mostly composed of Arabs but also includes people from other ethnic groups. Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on civilian and military targets of the U.S. and its allies; such as the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, the USS Cole bombing, and the September 11 attacks. It has been designated a terrorist organization by the United Nations and over two dozen countries ar

Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party with an active paramilitary group wing that has been banned by the Lebanese government. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese Parliament. Its armed strength was assessed to be equivalent to that of a medium-sized army in 2016.

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is a Pakistani Islamist Jihadist militant organization driven by a Salafi jihadist ideology. The organisation's primary stated objective is to merge the whole of Kashmir with Pakistan. It also seeks the destruction of India, Hinduism, and Judaism through jihad. It was founded in 1985–1986 by Hafiz Saeed, Zafar Iqbal Shehbaz, Abdullah Azzam and several other Islamist mujahideen with funding from Osama bin Laden during the Soviet–Afghan War. It has been designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations and numerous other countries and been responsible for terrorist atta

branch of the Islamic State operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Jihadist militant group in the southwestern Philippines

Southeast Asian salafist yihadist organization

militant Islamist organization

Egyptian Islamist militant group active since the late 1970s

militant Islamist organization in Mali

ongoing conflict

The Ikhwān (, ), commonly known as Ikhwān man Aṭāʿa Allāh (, 'Brethren of those who obey God'), was a Wahhabi religious militia made up of traditionally nomadic tribesmen which formed a significant military force of the ruler Ibn Saud and played an important role during the unification of Saudi Arabia whereby establishing him as ruler of most of the Arabian Peninsula in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Palestinian armed organization, military wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad

The Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa ( '), better known as Ansaru and less commonly called al-Qaeda in the Lands Beyond the Sahel''', is an Islamic fundamentalist Jihadist militant organisation originally based in the northeast of Nigeria. Originally a faction of Boko Haram, the group announced in 2012 that it had pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda and was independent. Despite this, Ansaru and other Boko Haram factions continued to work closely together until the former increasingly declined and stopped its insurgent activities in 2013. The group was revived in 2020, and has

organization aimed at fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan

Philippine Islamist militant group

Sri Lankan jihadist group

militant Islamist organisation

Tunisian organization

Militant Islamist organization in northwest Pakistan

Islamist militant organization in the Philippines

branch of Islamic State active in the Caucasus region

Group linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombing

international mujahideen organisation

Somali Islamist insurgent group

militant Islamist group in Burkina Faso and Mali

chechen Islamist militant group

branch of the Islamic State

Algerian terrorist faction

militant Islamist organization

Islamist group in Somalia

Islamist militant organization

Armed jihadist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda and fighting in the Syrian Civil War

branch of the militant Islamist group Islamic State (IS), active in Yemen

Chechen Islamist organization

insurgent movement in Southern Thailand

Rawti Shax or Didi Nwe

Branch of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant in the east African country of Somalia

name of militant groups

Malian yihadist group

defunct Islamist terrorist group

Central African branch of the Islamic State

Islamist group that operates in the Azawad region of Mali

Syrian islamist terrorist organization

Islamist militant organization

Islamist political entity in Russia

islamic militant separatist organization in South Thailand

North Caucasian jihadist organization

political and religious group in Palestine

Islamist insurgent group in Somalia

militant Islamist organization primarily active in the North Caucasus

Philippine Islamist militant group founded in 2014

former terrorist organization in Russia

Terrorist organisation based in Indonesia

Islamist militant insurgent group

Malian militant and jihadist (died 2020)

Indonesian paramilitary group

Islamist insurgent group in Somalia in 2007-2009