Ansar al-Islam (1962: The Apocalypse)

Ansar al-Islam (AAI; Arabic: أنصار الإسلام‎ ‘Anṣār al-Īslām, "Helpers of Islam") is an major post Saddam insurgent group active in northern Iraq and parts of Syria.

It was established in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2001 as a Salafist Islamist movement that imposed a strict application of Sharia in villages it controlled around Biyara to the northeast of Halabja, near the Iranian border.

Tikrit Mosul

Active	September 2001–present Ideology	Salafist Jihadism Leaders	Mullah Krekar (Former) Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i (POW) Abu Hashim al Ibrahim[1]