In addition to those three factions , there are also smaller rival groups : the Islamist Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries , led by Ansar al-Sharia , which has had the support of the GNC and was defeated Conquering in Benghazi in 2017 ; the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 's ( ISIL 's ) Libyan provinces ; the Shura Council of Mujahideen in Derna which expelled Removing ISIL from Derna in July 2015 and was later itself defeated Conquering in Derna by the Tobruk government in 2018 ; as well as many militias and armed groups , whose allegiances often change Change .

The GNC also included Cause_to_be_included members associated Collaboration with conservative Islamist groups as well as revolutionary groups ( thuwwar ) .

This statement Statement will be met with a certain degree of approval Preventing_or_letting in the U.S , as Pakistan has recently been pressured Influence to launch Process_start a major ground-offensive in the nearby North Waziristan tribal region , in order to root-out and destroy Destroying the last major remaining safe-haven for Radical Islamist and Pakistani Taliban insurgents within the country .

An estimated 1,200 Islamist fighters advanced Getting to within 20 kilometers of Mopti , a Mali military garrison town .

Experts suspect that Doku Umarov , an Islamist militant Hostile_encounter who has called Request for suicide Killing terror Terrorism attacks Attack and has a history of supporting Supporting past attacks Attack , was behind the attacks Attack in Volgograd .

These riots Violence happened Presence following the murder Killing of a traffic policeman named Name_conferral Selvaraj , by a member of the radical Islamist group Al Ummah .

The 2009 Boko Haram uprising Hostile_encounter was a conflict Hostile_encounter between Boko Haram , a militant Islamist group , and Nigerian security forces .

Second Chechen War ( ) , also known as the Second Chechen Сampaign ( ) or officially ( from the Russian point of view ) Counter-terrorist operations on territories of North Caucasian region ( ) , was an armed conflict on the territory of Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria , also with militants of various Islamist groups , fought from August 1999 to April 2009 .

On 9 August 1999 , Islamist fighters from Chechnya infiltrated Russia 's Dagestan region , declaring it an independent state and calling for a jihad until `` all unbelievers had been driven out '' .

The Battle of Mogadishu ( 2009 ) started Process_start in May with an Islamist offensive , when rebels from al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam attacked Attack and captured Conquering government bases in the capital of Mogadishu .

The Islamist offensive Defending lasted Process_end from 8 May to 14 May and ended Process_end with relative success as they managed to take Conquering control over most of the capital , while ARS-D and government ( TFG ) forces withdrew Removing into AMISOM protected territories .

But despite major gains , the rebels failed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to topple the government during the eight days of fighting and small scale clashes Hostile_encounter continued until 22 May , when the government launched Attack a major offensive to retake Control the city , as Islamist forces had mostly withdrawn Escaping into the Central Region and the government was now backed by powerful warlord Indho Ade .

The government offensive initially had some success as they captured Conquering a few bases , however in a matter of hours the Islamist launched Attack a successful counter offensive and re-captured the lost areas and made Getting even more gains .

The ultimatum was however rejected Response and so , al-Shabaab launched Attack several attacks Attack on key sites in the city provoking Convincing a major government offensive Defending on 11 – 12 July , which led to Causation a total expulsion of Islamist forces from the city .

It was one of many attacks Attack in the Maghreb carried out Action by Islamist groups since 2002 .

The Sinai insurgency is an ongoing conflict Hostile_encounter in the Sinai Peninsula , Egypt , between Islamist militants and Egyptian security forces , which has included attacks Attack on civilians .

Security officials say militants based in Libya have established Creating ties with the Sinai Province group and have blamed Judgment_communication the porous border and ongoing civil war for the increase Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale in sophisticated weapons available to the Islamist groups .

The motive for the hijacking Attack appears Change_sentiment to have been to secure the release Releasing of Islamist figures held in prison in India .

Various members of Jemaah Islamiyah , a violent Islamist group , were convicted Legal_rulings in relation to the bombings Attack , including three individuals who were sentenced Legal_rulings to death .

The political background is the race Competition between Prime Minister Nouri Maliki , a Shia Islamist , and former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi , a secular Shia supported Supporting by Iraq 's Sunnis .

The gunmen identified Check themselves as belonging to the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda 's branch in Yemen , which took responsibility for the attack Attack .

On 8 December 2012 , Morsi annulled his temporary decree which had expanded his presidential authority and removed Removing judicial review of his decrees , an Islamist official said , but added Cause_to_be_included that the results of the temporary declaration Expressing_publicly would still stand .

Islamist responsibility would have had the opposite political effect , as it would have been seen Causation as a consequence of the PP government taking Conquering Spain into the Iraq War , a policy extremely unpopular among Spaniards .

The conflict Violence in Jammu and Kashmir has strong Islamist elements among the insurgents Terrorism , with many of the `` ultras '' identifying with Check Jihadist movements and supported Supporting by such .

The conflict originated Coming_to_be with the election Choosing of the Islamist political party Hamas in 2005 and 2006 in the Gaza Strip and escalated Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale with the split of the Palestinian Authority Palestinian government into the Fatah government in the West Bank and the Hamas government in Gaza and the following violent ousting of Fatah after Fatah lost Earnings_and_losses the election Choosing to Hamas .

Three other Islamist attacks Attack took place Process_start on the same day in France , Tunisia , and Somalia .

In total , 93 peacekeepers have died Death in the region , with 15 dying Death in a large-scale attack Attack by an Islamist militia , the Allied Democratic Forces , in North Kivu in December 2017 .

The Algerian Civil War Hostile_encounter was a civil Hostile_encounter war Hostile_encounter in Algeria fought Hostile_encounter between the Algerian Government and various Islamic rebel groups from 26 December 1991 ( following a coup negating Preventing_or_letting an Islamist electoral victory Earnings_and_losses ) to 8 February 2002 .

The war Hostile_encounter began Process_start slowly as it first appeared Change_sentiment the government had successfully crushed Bodily_harm the Islamist movement , but armed groups emerged Coming_to_be to fight Hostile_encounter jihad and by 1994 , violence Violence had reached Arriving such a level that it appeared Change_sentiment the government might not be able to withstand Defending it .

After the FIS was banned Preventing_or_letting and thousands of its members arrested Arrest , Islamist guerrillas rapidly emerged Coming_to_be and began Process_start an armed campaign Military_operation against the government and its supporters .

Subsequently , the Islamist militant group , Indian Mujahideen , claimed Statement responsibility Causation of the blast Attack , via email to Indian media .

And a rise Motion_directional of Islamist Groups ( Al-Qaeda , ISIS ) , innsurgencies ( Houthis ) and separatist movements .

During the nine-month-long Bangladesh War Hostile_encounter for Liberation , members of the Pakistani military and supporting Islamist militias from Jamaat-e-Islami killed Killing between 300,000 and 3,000,000 people and raped Bodily_harm between 200,000 and 400,000 Bangladeshi women , according to Bangladeshi and Indian sources , in a systematic campaign of genocidal rape .

The attackers , led by Movsar Barayev , claimed Statement allegiance to the Islamist separatist movement in Chechnya .

A spokesperson from the Sunni Islamist group Boko Haram later claimed Statement responsibility .

The Islamist group Ansar Dine , too , began Process_start fighting Hostile_encounter the government in later stages of the conflict Hostile_encounter , claiming Statement control Control of vast swathes of territory , albeit disputed Quarreling by the MNLA .

The 2014 Latakia offensive Military_operation was a rebel offensive Military_operation in the Latakia Governorate of Syria launched Process_start on 21 March 2014 by rebel Islamist groups including Al-Nusra Front , which called Name_conferral the offensive `` Anfal '' , while a coalition of Supreme Military Council rebel groups called Name_conferral the offensive Military_operation `` The Martyrs Mothers '' .

The operation Military_operation ended Process_end on July 15 , 2014 , and was replaced by Operation Barkhane , launched Process_start on August 1 , 2014 to fight Islamist fighters in the Sahel .

The movement against the United States-backed monarchy was supported Supporting by various leftist and Islamist organizations and student movements .

Osama bin Laden , the founder and first leader of the Islamist terrorist Terrorism group , Al-Qaeda , was killed Killing in Pakistan on May 2 , 2011 , shortly after 1:00 am PKT ( 20:00 UTC , May 1 ) by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S .

The Toulouse and Montauban shootings were a series of Islamist terrorist attacks Attack committed by Mohammed Merah from 11–19 March 2012 in the cities of Montauban and Toulouse in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France .

During questioning Communication , Dzhokhar said Statement that he and his brother were motivated Influence by extremist Islamist beliefs and the wars Hostile_encounter in Iraq and Afghanistan , that they were self-radicalized and unconnected to any outside terrorist Terrorism groups , and that he was following his brother 's lead .

The Insurgency in the Maghreb refers to Islamist militant and terrorist Terrorism activity in the Maghreb and Sahel regions of North Africa since 2002 .

In 2012 , AQIM and Islamist allies captured Conquering the northern half of Mali , until being fought Hostile_encounter back less than a year later following a French-led foreign intervention Preventing_or_letting , which was succeeded by the Sahel-wide Operation Barkhane .

The 7 July 2005 London bombings Terrorism , often referred Name_conferral to as 7/7 , were a series of coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks Terrorism in London , England , that targeted Aiming commuters travelling Traveling on the city 's public transport system during the morning rush hour .

52 people of 18 different nationalities , all of whom were UK residents , were killed Killing , and more than 700 were injured Bodily_harm in the attacks Terrorism , making it Causation Britain 's deadliest terrorist incident Attack since the 1988 bombing Terrorism of Pan Am Flight 103 near Lockerbie , Scotland , and England 's deadliest since the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings Terrorism , as well as the country 's first Islamist suicide attack Terrorism .

The MNLA were initially backed by the Islamist group Ansar Dine .

After the Malian military was driven Self_motion from northern Mali , Ansar Dine and a number of smaller Islamist groups began Process_start imposing strict Sharia law .

Afterwards , the MNLA began Process_start fighting Hostile_encounter against Ansar Dine and other Islamist groups , including Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa ( MOJWA/MUJAO ) , a splinter group of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb .

During the 1971 Bangladesh war for independence , members of the Pakistani military and supporting Islamist militias called Name_conferral the Razakars raped between 200,000 and 400,000 Bangladeshi women and girls in a systematic campaign of genocidal rape .