Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis (ABM) | |
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أنصار بيت المقدس | |
Flag of Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis Logo of Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis | |
Leaders | Waleed Waked (POW)[1] Ibrahim Mohamed Freg †[2] Shadi el-Manaei[3] |
Dates of operation | 2011–10 November 2014[4] |
Headquarters | Sinai Peninsula |
Active regions | Egypt Gaza Strip[5][6] |
Ideology | Ideology of Islamic State (since 2014) |
Size | 1,000[7]–2,000[8] (before merger with ISIL) |
Allies | Al-Qaeda (formerly until 2014) Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (present 2014)[9] |
Opponents | Egypt Israel[6] Palestine Syria Al-Qaeda (from 2014) |
Battles and wars | Sinai insurgency |
Ansar Bait al-Maqdis (ABM; Arabic: أَنْصَارُ بَيْتِ الْمَقْدِس, romanized: Anṣār Bayt al-Maqdis, lit. 'Supporters of the Holy House'[10]), or Ansar Al-Quds[11] (lit. 'Supporters of Jerusalem'), was a jihadist, extremist terrorist group based in Sinai from 2011 to 2014.
Ansar Bait al-Maqdis was linked to al-Qaeda from 2011 to 2014. It operated in the Sinai Peninsula, focused its efforts on Egypt and the gas pipeline to Jordan, with a handful attacks directed at Israel. In mid-2013, it began a campaign of attacks on Egyptian security forces, and in November 2014 the group pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[4] Most of the group became a branch of ISIL, renaming itself ISIL-Sinai Province.
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