Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (formally multiple times before alliance with ISIL in 2015)[3][4]
Caucasus Emirate
Tahrir al-Sham
Opponents
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Uzbekistan
ISAF
Germany
United States
Russia
India
Qatar
Iran
Poland
Syria
Tajikistan
Pakistan
China[5]
Battles and wars
Global War on Terrorism
War in Afghanistan
Taliban insurgency
War in North-West Pakistan
Operation Zarb-e-Azb
The Islamic Jihad Union (IJU; Arabic: اتحاد الجهاد الإسلامي, romanized: Ittiḥad al-Jihad al-Islāmī) is a militant Islamist organization founded in 2002 as a splinter group of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). Headquartered in North Waziristan, a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan, the group has been affiliated with both Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
Under its original name Islamic Jihad Group (IJG; Arabic: جماعة الجهاد الاسلامي, romanized: Jama'at al-Jihad al-Islāmī), the group conducted several attacks in Uzbekistan. In 2007, a large-scale bomb plot in Germany, known as the "Sauerland terror cell", was discovered by German security authorities.[6] In the following years, the group focused on fighting Pakistani forces in the tribal areas, and NATO and Afghan forces in Afghanistan.[7]
Recruits are mainly Turks both from Turkey and the Turkish communities in Western Europe, but also European converts to Islam, particularly in German-speaking countries.[8]
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^"Why Central Asian states want peace with the Taliban". DW News. 27 March 2018. Archived from the original on 14 May 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2022. "Taliban have assured Russia and Central Asian countries that it would not allow any group, including the IMU, to use Afghan soil against any foreign state," Muzhdah said.
^Roggio, Bill; Weiss, Caleb (14 June 2016). "Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan faction emerges after group's collapse". Long War Journal. Archived from the original on 11 April 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^"Three groups active in Xinjiang banned". 24 October 2013. Archived from the original on 26 February 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
^DPA news agency (kjb) (September 19, 2008), Germany Arrests Two Suspected of Failed Terror Plot, Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on October 24, 2012, retrieved September 20, 2008
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