IN A LETTER WRITTEN to the al Qaeda leadership in early 2004, Abu Musab Zarqawi described the Iraqi Kurds in less than favorable terms. As far as Zarqawi was concerned, they were “a Trojan horse” who ...

When U.S. special forces led an assault in March on a compound in northern Iraq belonging to the militant group Ansar al-Islam, U.S. officials said they had taken out a significant terrorist threat.

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, April 6 -- Members of Ansar al-Islam, the extremist Muslim group pushed from its northern Iraq enclave by U.S. and Kurdish forces a week ago, have begun surrendering at the Iranian ...

WASHINGTON -- A new Islamic extremist group in northern Iraq is drawing increased attention from U.S. intelligence agencies for its ties to al-Qaida and interest in chemical and biological weapons, ...

H A L A B J A, Iraq, Jan. 13 -- The combat footage in the video is dramatic. It depicts Ansar al-Islam (Supporters of Islam) guerrillas advancing on the fortress of Gildadrozen before sunrise, ...

From Jim Landers of the Dallas Morning News we learn that the Kurds are worried about Iran’s ongoing relationship wiith Ansar al-Islam, an al Qaeda affiliate in Iraq. Note, in particular, what the ...

2003-04-27 04:00:00 PDT Darga Sharkhan, Iraq-- The 2-inch-thick manual on killing, discovered in an abandoned bomb laboratory here early this month, offers instruction in al Qaeda's array of lethal ...

MILAN -- Ansar al-Islam, an Islamic underground organization based in Iraq, and al Qaeda have joined forces to recruit Arab volunteers in Europe to fight the United States and its allies in Iraq, ...

IRBIL, Iraq - Kurds blamed Ansar al-Islam, an al-Qaida-linked militant group, for suicide bombings that killed at least 67 people, saying Monday its members increasingly have been slipping into Iraq ...

Ansar al-Islam was founded by Mullah Krekar, who has been living as a refugee in Norway since 1991. The group vowed to set up a conservative Islamic state in northern Iraq, and its members have ...