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    بلاد السودان Jamāʿatu Anṣāril Muslimīna fī Bilādis Sūdān), better known as Ansaru and less commonly called al-Qaeda in the Lands Beyond the Sahel, is an Islamic...
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  • with Ansaru, killing their leader Abu Osama al-Ansari. As a result of this, and other arrests of Ansaru leaders by the Nigerian government, Ansaru did...
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    gang has suffered defeats, most notably losing 30 men in a battle with an Ansaru cell. Kachalla was killed on 11 December 2023. Before his death, Kachalla...
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  • The two frequently clashed, and Abu Musab even temporarily defected to Ansaru, a Boko Haram splinter group, in 2013. On 27 January 2015, he released a...
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    the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity. The exact origin of Ansaru is unclear, but it had already existed as Boko Haram faction before officially...
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  • Ansar Allah or Ansarullah (anṣāru llāhi أنصار الله) is the Arabic for "Helpers/Supporters of God". It may refer to: the Houthi movement in Yemen Ansarullah...
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  • On April 5, 2022, militants from Ansaru attacked a Nigerian military base in Birnin Gwari, Kaduna State, Nigeria. The attack killed seventeen soldiers...
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    to operate in the Central African region, including the Seleka and the Ansaru. Over the course of the 2010s, the internationally unrecognized secessionist...
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    Frederick Lugard took the city in 1901. A French hostage of the Islamist group Ansaru, held captive at Zaria, escaped in 2013 and reached a police station in...
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    as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād (Boko Haram), under Shekau's control; and Ansaru which is loyal to al-Qaeda and rejected the caliphate of al-Bagdadi, though...
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