Bassam Ahmad al-Hasri
Al-Hasri has longstanding ties to al-Qa'ida, and was released in 2011 by Syrian authorities after spending six years in prison for his association with the...
Al-Hasri has longstanding ties to al-Qa'ida, and was released in 2011 by Syrian authorities after spending six years in prison for his association with the...
Zarqawi is reported as having been a high school dropout and a petty criminal in his youth, including(allegedly), a procurer of prostitutes. He formed al-Tawhid...
After his release from Camp Bucca prison in 2008, al-Julani resumed his militant work, this time alongside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the then...
On 29 June 2014, ISIL announced the establishment of a worldwide caliphate. Al-Baghdadi was named its caliph, to be known as "Caliph Ibrahim", and the...
Al-Nusra Front is a branch of al-Qaeda operating in Syria and Lebanon. The group announced its formation on 23 January 2012, during the Syrian Civil...
Al-Qaeda is a global militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and several other militants...
ISIS is an Islamic extremist terrorist organization controlling territory in Iraq and Syria, with limited territorial control in Libya and Nigeria.