A synopsis of several terrorist groups around the world
A synopsis of several terrorist groups around the world
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There are several terrorist groups spread around the world creating violence and crime around their and terrorizing people. Within the last month of the 2022, it was witnessed 44 per cent of the overall attacks that the country faced last year. Terror attacks were increased by 88 percent in Balochistan and 54 percent in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in December 2022.   

Taliban recently in year 2021 has recaptured over the Afghanistan and ruling it again. Taliban recaptured has put the whole nation in trauma as they are recognized as terrorist group. Taliban is a Sunni Islamist nationalist and pro-Pashtun movement founded in the early 1990s that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until October 2001. Taliban found a foothold and consolidated their strength in southern Afghanistan. In the years leading up to the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States, the Taliban provided a safe haven for al-Qaeda. This has provided Al-Qaeda a base to continue their terrorist activities. Later the Taliban was uprooted from the Afghanistan by the US-led campaign, in 2001.

In May 2011, death of al-Qaeda founder Usama Bin Laden, the Taliban in July 2015 revealed that its reclusive leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, had died in 2013. This terrorist group was responsible for most insurgent attacks in Afghanistan, which follow an established pattern of regular low-level ambush and hit-and-run attacks, coupled with periodic high-profile attacks. Over 40 cadets and civilians were killed when a suicide bomber dressed in police uniform blew himself up at the entrance of Kabul Police Academy, later Taliban squad targeted Resolute Support Mission installation Camp Integrity, killing at least nine, including one NATO serviceman.

 Al-Nusra Front is one of the most capable al-Qaeda-affiliated groups operating in Syria during the ongoing conflict. On 2012, they announced their intention of overthrowing Syrian President Bashar al-Asad’s regime and since then has mounted hundreds of insurgent-style and suicide attacks against regime and security service targets across the country. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) predecessor organizations used Syria as a facilitation hub and transformed this facilitation and logistics network into an organization capable of conducting sophisticated explosives and firearms attacks. This group cadre is predominately composed of Syrian nationals many of whom are veterans of previous conflicts, including the Iraq war. An al-Nusra Front attack in May 2014—the first known suicide bombing by an American in Syria—targeted regime personnel, highlighting the involvement of US persons in the conflict.

Boko Haram is another terrorist group spread in the area of Western Africa, Central Africa. They refer themselves as  “Jama‘atu Ahl as-Sunnah li-Da‘awati wal-Jihad” (JASDJ; Group of the Sunni People for the Calling and Jihad) and “Nigerian Taliban”—other translations and variants are used—is a Nigeria-based group that seeks to overthrow the current Nigerian Government and replace it with a regime based on Islamic law. This group has existed in various forms from late 1990s with suffering setback from Nigerian Government in July 2009. Boko Haram’s capability increased in 2014, with the group conducting near-daily attacks against Christians, security and police forces, the media, schools, politicians, and Muslims perceived as collaborators. Their violence has included the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Borno State, Nigeria, in April 2014—brought international condemnation and in February 2015 provoked a large regional CT offensive against the group that displaced it from the majority of its strongholds in Nigeria. 

Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM), also known as the Army of Mohammed, Khudamul Islam, and Tehrik ul-Furqaan among other names is an extremist group based in Pakistan and was founded by Masood Azhar in early 2000 upon his release from prison in India. The aim of this group is to unite Kashmir to Pakistan; they also had openly declared war against the United State.     JEM continues to operate openly in parts of Pakistan despite the 2002 ban on its activities. They have conducted terrorist activities, including a suicide bombing of the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly building in the Indian-administered Kashmir capital of Srinagar in October 2001 that killed more than 30. They claimed responsibility for a number of attacks, including the killing of several Indian police officials in Srinagar. JEM members also were involved in the 2007 Red Mosque uprising in Islamabad. Asmatullah Moavia, a militant currently associated with Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, split from the group after the Red Mosque incident because of disagreements over how to react to it. They has at least several hundred armed supporters located in Pakistan, India’s southern Kashmir and Doda regions, and in the Kashmir Valley. 

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