Examples of using AQ groups in English and their translations into Russian
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These are AQ groups within the region and AQIM's relationship with AQ groups outside of North Africa/Sahel.
A number of IS groups have thus come into being as breakaway groups from existing AQ groups.
However, there is nothing to suggest that the North African AQ groups have any intention of carrying out terrorist attacks on European soil.
Connection to AQ prevents participation in ceasefire negotiations,as the international players will not negotiate with AQ groups.
However, in the case of North Africa/Sahel, the local AQ groups have demonstrated that they are still capable of carrying out attacks against Western targets.
With the exception of Uqba bin Nafi, which was established by AQIM and should therefore be considered as a branch of AQIM,many of these new AQ groups subsequently joined forces with IS.
It is in any case clear that the AQ groups' ability to carry out terrorist attacks has escalated since IS entered the scene as a jihadi force in the region.
IS' move into North Africa andSahel has undoubtedly led to a degree of rivalry between IS and local AQ groups, albeit not necessarily-as was the case in Derna-to violent confrontation.
Prior to IS'advance into the region, the AQ groups in North Africa/Sahel were characterized by endless discord and rivalries, which led to constant schisms and fragmentation.
However, the interesting aspect of this is not only IS'geographical expansion,it is also in particular the manner in which this expansion has played out with respect to the various local AQ groups which were already present in the various regions.
Is it competition from IS which has caused these AQ groups to change strategy and carry out more and increasingly varied forms of terrorist attack than previously?
When Bashar al-Assad took over from his father in 2000,Syrian intelligence services tried to expand Syria's power by establishing contact to various Islamist networks and AQ groups, which were emerging in the Iraq/Syria border area.
This was the start of an open conflict between the Syrian and the Iraqi AQ groups, and ended with a unique confrontation between AQ and what later became known as Islamic State.
Two days later, al-Julani confirmed that al-Baghdadi had ordered the establishment of al-Nusra, and that ISI had supplied al-Nusra with weapons, money and manpower, butthat the al-Nusra Front as well as ISI were under AQ's highest-ranking leaders- they were both local AQ groups and had to obey the leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
In carrying out these attacks, the AQ groups in question have made a point of demonstrating that their modus operandi differs from that of IS, inasmuch as they exclusively target foreign nationals.
This is presumably one of the reasons why both AQIM and practically all AQ groups were falling over one another to praise the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris in January 2015, which was carried out on behalf of the AQ branch AQAP.
This demonstrative fraternization between AQ groups to a large extent also pertains within the region,whereby various AQ groups which had earlier elected to go their separate ways proclaimed in the course of 2015 that they had now rejoined forces, and what is more were working in partnership on carrying out substantial terrorist attacks.
After AQ was weakened in Pakistan and Yemen by US drone strikes,AQIM is one of the few remaining AQ groups which is both able to hold on its own against IS and at the same time has the capacity to carry out venomous attacks against Western citizens and interests in the region.
Thus, there have been instances of individuals in a given AQ group breaking away and declaring allegiance to Baghdadi,only to return once again to their former AQ group shortly thereafter.
Together with France, the Americans have maintained that Jabhat al-Nusra is an AQ group, and that the group therefore cannot be part of negotiations on the future of Syria.
The theological disagreement between IS and AQ is also playing out in North Africa and Sahel where, prior to IS' move into the area,there was a relatively strong and well-consolidated AQ group, AQIM AQ in Islamic Maghreb.
This was the first and, so far,only time that an AQ group was excluded from the network, and Ayman al-Zawahiri's declaration caused a stir in international media and was communicated under headlines such as"Who are Isis?
Likewise, there are examples of individuals from an AQ group declaring loyalty to Baghdadi, while nonetheless remaining members of this same AQ group.
If the militant Jihad networks are to be combated effectively, it is important to understand the historical, social andpolitical circumstances that breed groups such as AQ and IS, and to address these issues.
The group remained part of AQ even after the death of al-Zarqawi.
In July 2016, Jabhat al-Nusra's leaders announced that the group had broken with AQ and would change its name to Jabhat Fatah al-Sham.
Recruiting for AQ, UBL or the Taliban, or any cell, affiliate, splinter group or derivative thereof.1.
Other association with AQ, UBL or the Taliban, or any cell, affiliate, splinter group or derivative thereof.
As mentioned earlier, the Al-Nusra Front had been included on the US list of terrorist organizations in December 2012, and in September 2015, the CIA announced that the al-Nusra Front had formed the Khorasan group, which was the CIA name for the group of AQ veterans who had joined the al-Nusra Front in Syria from Yemen and Afghanistan and according to several sources are now hiding in the Idlib Governorate.
The question is, however, what IS' move into North Africa andSahel has meant for the battle-hardened AQ group AQIM and the other AQ-affiliated groups in the region.