Inghimasi often wear explosive belts (example pictured) alongside regular weapons in order to inflict as much damage as possible on their enemies.
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Inghimasi (Arabic: اِنْغِمَاسِيّ, romanized: Inġimāsīy, "become immersed"), also called shahid (Arabic: شَهِيد, "martyr") and istishhadi (Arabic: اِسْتِشْهَادِيّ, "martyrdom seeker"),[1] are forlorn hope or suicide attack shock troops utilized by several Sunni jihadist groups, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), al-Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra, Tahrir al-Sham, Boko Haram, and al-Shabaab.
a form of shock troops. Inghimasi are also deployed against civilians, such as in the November 2015 Paris attacks. Inghimasi may sometimes be deployed...
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condition that this [act] is in the interest of Muslims." Apart from Inghimasi, Ibn Taymiyya also issued legal verdicts sanctioning the killing of Muslim...
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