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Ansar Jerusalem (Ansar Bayt al Maqdis), the main Sinai-based jihadist group ... “[W]e will not tire nor get bored until the banner of Tawhid [oneness in God] is raised on high and that the word of ...

Ansar al-Sunna is thought to have links with other Islamic organizations operating in Iraq including, the formerly Abu Musab al-Zarqawi backed, Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (al-Qaeda in Iraq).

On Oct. 13, Israel killed Abu al Walid al Maqdisi, the former emir of the Tawhid and Jihad Group in Jerusalem, and Ashraf al Sabah, the former emir of Ansar al Sunnah, in an airstrike. The two were ...