For other uses, see Ansar ul Islam (disambiguation).
Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa[1] (Ansaru)
جماعة أنصار المسلمين في بلاد السودان
Jamāʿatu Anṣāril Muslimīna fī Bilādis Sūdān
Leaders
Abubakar Adam Kambar ("Abu Yasir") †[2]
Khalid Barnawi ("Abu Usamatal Ansari") (POW)[2][3] Abu Jafa'ar (spokesman)[4]
Dates of operation
c. 2009–2012 (as Boko Haram faction)[2]
2012–present (officially;[2] mostly inactive since 2015)[5]
Active regions
Northern Nigeria
Ideology
Islamic fundamentalist Jihadism[6]
Size
2,000–3,000 (2013)[7]
Part of
Boko Haram (2009–2012)
Al-Qaeda (covertly)[8][9][10]
Allies
Boko Haram
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Al-Shabaab
Opponents
Nigeria
Mali
Turkey
Western world
Battles and wars
Boko Haram insurgency
Northern Mali conflict (suspected)[11]
Designated as a terrorist group by
see section
The Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa (Arabic: جماعة أنصار المسلمين في بلاد السودانJamāʿatu Anṣāril Muslimīna fī Bilādis Sūdān),[12] better known as Ansaru and less commonly called al-Qaeda in the Lands Beyond the Sahel,[9] is an Islamic fundamentalist Jihadist militant organisation based in the northeast of Nigeria. It originated as a faction of Boko Haram but became officially independent in 2012. Despite this, Ansaru and other Boko Haram factions continued to work closely together until the former increasingly declined and stopped its insurgent activities in 2015. Since then, Ansaru is mostly dormant though its members continue to spread propaganda for their cause.
^"Boko Haram : Splinter group, Ansaru emerges - Vanguard News". Archived from the original on 18 May 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
^ abcdICG 2014, pp. 26, 27.
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^"Ansaru: A Profile of Nigeria's Newest Jihadist Movement". Jamestown Foundation. 10 January 2013. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
^Cite error: The named reference Electronic Jihad was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Comolli (2015), p. 103.
^""L'intervention française au Mali a déplacé la menace djihadiste vers le sud"". LEFIGARO. 18 November 2013. Archived from the original on 6 February 2020. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
^ICG 2014, p. 27.
^ abMagnus Taylor (24 October 2013). "Expert interview: Jacob Zenn – On terrorism and insurgency in Northern Nigeria". African Arguments. Archived from the original on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
^"Hot Issue: Boko Haram's Mass-Kidnapping in Chibok: Shekau's Gains and Objectives". Jamestown. Archived from the original on 15 June 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
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easily." On the night of July 5, Islamic State militants, with the aid with Ansaru, launched three simultaneous attacks on different sides of the prison. Immediately...
of Shekau with ISIL remains confused and ambiguous. The exact origin of Ansaru is unclear, but it had already existed as Boko Haram faction before officially...
conflict between Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram (including their offshoot Ansaru) and the Nigerian government. Boko Haram have carried out many attacks against...
such as Abu Usmatul al-Ansari's Salafist conservative faction and the Ansaru faction, Shekau became the insurgency's de facto leader and mostly kept...
by Islamists in modern Nigeria. For example, the Jihadist militant group Ansaru has vowed to revive the Sokoto Caliphate in order to restore the "lost dignity...
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Garin Giwa that same day. "1.3.1. Boko Haram, including JAS, ISWAP and Ansaru". European Union Agency for Asylum. Retrieved 2024-04-18. Digest, Emergency...
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