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Ansar al Islam  

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  • Ansar al Islam (in English, Partisans of Islam) is a Sunni insurgent group of Kurdish origin operating primarily in northern Iraq, especially the governorates of Sulaymaniyah and Ninawa. Ansar al Islam holds to a Salafist worldview, which insists on a puritanical form of Islam and seeks to emulate the practices of the Prophet Muhammad and his companions. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Ansar al Islam]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-PLT5XKNH-S

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