Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Ansar al-Islam (AAI) (Supporters or Partisans of Islam) is an insurgent group active in Iraq. 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. Following the US invasion of Iraq, the group became an insurgent group which fought against the American led forces and their Iraqi allies. The group continued to fight the Iraqi Government following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.The US Government has called the organization a terrorist organization which is linked to, and is a known as an affiliate of the Al-Qaeda terror network.. }
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- Ansar_al-Islam abstract "Ansar al-Islam (AAI) (Supporters or Partisans of Islam) is an insurgent group active in Iraq. 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. Following the US invasion of Iraq, the group became an insurgent group which fought against the American led forces and their Iraqi allies. The group continued to fight the Iraqi Government following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.The US Government has called the organization a terrorist organization which is linked to, and is a known as an affiliate of the Al-Qaeda terror network.".