Table 1:

Jihadi Groups in Major Civil Wars

Insurgent GroupCountry
Hizb-i Islami-yi Afghanistan Afghanistan 
Taliban Afghanistan 
Haqqani Network Afghanistan 
Groupe Islamique Armé (GIAAlgeria 
Takfir wa'l Hijra Algeria 
Armée Islamique du Salut (AISAlgeria 
Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAOAlgeria 
AQIM Algeria/Mali 
Bosnian mujahideen Bosnia 
Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya Egypt 
Wilayat Sinai Egypt 
Egyptian Islamic Jihad Egypt 
Darul Islam Indonesia 
Jemaah Islamiya Indonesia 
Jundallah Iran 
Ansar al-Islam Iraq 
Reformation and Jihad Front (RJFIraq 
ISIS Iraq/Syria 
Al-Mahdi Army (Jaysh al-Mahdi) Iraq 
Ansar al-Sharia Libya 
Libya Dawn Libya 
Al-Murabitun (merger of MUJAO and Al-Mulathameen) Mali 
Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAOMali 
Ansar Dine Mali 
Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad (Boko Haram) Nigeria 
Lashkar-e-Islam Pakistan 
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar Pakistan 
Lashkar-e-Jhangyi Pakistan 
Ansaar ul-Islam Pakistan 
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Pakistan 
Abu Sayyaf Group Philippines 
Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters Philippines 
Imarat Kavkaz (Caucasus Emirate) Russia 
Al Shabaab Somalia 
Hizbul Islam Somalia 
Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI)/Islamic Courts Union Somalia/Ethiopia (Ogaden) 
Jabhat al-Nusra li al-Sham Syria 
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (in Tajikistan: Forces of Mullo Abdullo) Uzbekistan/Tajikistan/Kyrgyzstan 
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Yemen 
Insurgent GroupCountry
Hizb-i Islami-yi Afghanistan Afghanistan 
Taliban Afghanistan 
Haqqani Network Afghanistan 
Groupe Islamique Armé (GIAAlgeria 
Takfir wa'l Hijra Algeria 
Armée Islamique du Salut (AISAlgeria 
Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAOAlgeria 
AQIM Algeria/Mali 
Bosnian mujahideen Bosnia 
Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya Egypt 
Wilayat Sinai Egypt 
Egyptian Islamic Jihad Egypt 
Darul Islam Indonesia 
Jemaah Islamiya Indonesia 
Jundallah Iran 
Ansar al-Islam Iraq 
Reformation and Jihad Front (RJFIraq 
ISIS Iraq/Syria 
Al-Mahdi Army (Jaysh al-Mahdi) Iraq 
Ansar al-Sharia Libya 
Libya Dawn Libya 
Al-Murabitun (merger of MUJAO and Al-Mulathameen) Mali 
Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAOMali 
Ansar Dine Mali 
Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad (Boko Haram) Nigeria 
Lashkar-e-Islam Pakistan 
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar Pakistan 
Lashkar-e-Jhangyi Pakistan 
Ansaar ul-Islam Pakistan 
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Pakistan 
Abu Sayyaf Group Philippines 
Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters Philippines 
Imarat Kavkaz (Caucasus Emirate) Russia 
Al Shabaab Somalia 
Hizbul Islam Somalia 
Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI)/Islamic Courts Union Somalia/Ethiopia (Ogaden) 
Jabhat al-Nusra li al-Sham Syria 
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (in Tajikistan: Forces of Mullo Abdullo) Uzbekistan/Tajikistan/Kyrgyzstan 
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Yemen 
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