Jamaat Ansarullah

Jamaat Ansarullah
Jamaat Ansarullah
جماعت انصارالله ; Ҷамоати Ансоруллоҳ
	Flag used by Jamaat Ansarullah
Leaders	Amriddin Tobarov (2006–2015) ; Muhammad Shafirov (2015–present)
Dates of operation	2006–present
Allegiance	Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (since 2021, denied by Afghan Taliban)
Motives	To turn Tajikistan into an Islamic Emirate like Afghanistan; To change the official script of Tajikistan from Cyrillic to Perso-Arabic; To abolish the Russian language from the official status;
Headquarters	Badakhshan, Afghanistan
Active regions	Badghis:; Jawand; Ab Kamari; Badakhshan:; Kuf Ab; Khwahan; Maimay; Darwaz-e Bala; Shekay;
Ideology	Islamic fundamentalism ; Deobandi jihadism ; Wahabism ; Religious nationalism ; Revolutionism
Size	~300
Allies	Afghan Taliban (alleged; denied by the Taliban) ; al-Qaeda (alleged) ; Turkistan Islamic Party
Opponents	Tajikistan; National Resistance Front; Islamic State - Khorasan Province
Battles and wars	Taliban insurgency ; Islamic State-Taliban conflict ; Republican insurgency in Afghanistan
Designated as a terrorist group by	Tajikistan

Jamaat Ansarullah (Tajik: Ҷамоати Ансоруллоҳ, Persian: جماعت انصارالله), is a Tajik Islamist militant movement currently based out of Badakhshan, Afghanistan. It is related to al-Qaeda.

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