Mustafa Badreddine was a military leader of a militant group that is now headed by what man?
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Mustafa Badreddine Mustafa Badreddine (Arabic: مصطفى بدر الدين‎ ‎ ‎; 6 April 1961 – c. 13 May 2016), also known as Mustafa Badr Al Din, Mustafa Amine Badreddine, Mustafa Youssef Badreddine, Sami Issa, and Elias Fouad Saab, was a military leader of Hezbollah and both the cousin and brother-in-law of Imad Mughniyah. He was nicknamed "Dhu al-Fiqar" referring to the legendary sword of Imam Ali. Badreddine was killed by shelling at Damascus International Airport and Hezbollah announced the attack was launched by Takfiri groups. His death is seen as one of the biggest blows in the Hezbollah leadership.
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Hezbollah Hezbollah (pronounced ; Arabic: حزب الله‎ ‎ "Ḥizbu 'llāh ", literally "Party of Allah" or "Party of God")—also transliterated Hizbullah, Hizballah, etc.—is a Shi'a Islamist militant group and political party based in Lebanon. Hezbollah's paramilitary wing is the Jihad Council, and its political wing is Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc party in the Lebanese parliament. After the death of Abbas al-Musawi in 1992, the group has been headed by Hassan Nasrallah, its Secretary-General.
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Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM, English: Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law ) is a Pakistani militant group whose objective is to enforce Sharia law in the country. The rebel group took over much of Swat in 2007. It was founded by Sufi Muhammad in 1992, and was banned by President Pervez Musharraf on January 12, 2002.
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Warriors of the Turkish People's Liberation Front The Warriors of the Turkish People's Liberation Front or WTPLF was a Turkish militant organization led by Omer Faruk Aydin.
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Rally of Democratic Forces (rebel group) The Rally of Democratic Forces (in French: "Rassemblement des Forces Démocratiques" or RaFD) is a Chadian rebel group led by Timane Erdimi. It is currently allied to the United Front for Democratic Change rebel group and both are dedicated to overthrowing Erdimi's uncle, the current Chadian President Idriss Déby and his administration. As of May 1, 2006, RaFD has a significant presence in the cities of Guéréda, Tissi and Adré. The 12,000 troops that make up the RaFD were expected to disrupt the 2006 presidential elections, but they did not, and President Déby was returned to power.
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Popular Mobilization Forces The People's Mobilization Forces (PMF), also known as the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) (Arabic: الحشد الشعبي‎ ‎ "Al-Hashd Al-Sha'abi"), is an Iraqi state-sponsored umbrella organization composed of some 40 militias, which are mainly Shia Muslim groups, but also including Sunni Muslim, Christian, and Yazidi individuals as well. The People's Mobilization was formed upon a non-sectarian fatwa by the Iraqi top Shia cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani calling for national moblization against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The organization was formed by uniting existing militias under the "People's Mobilization Committee" of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior in June 2014. The Popular Mobilization Units has been accused of human rights violations against Sunni civilians and sectarian bloodletting but the Iraqi officials have described these violations as sporadic and took immediate punitive measures and Iraqi Shia clerics immediately urged the members to avoid war crimes.
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Hasan Turkmani Hasan Ali Turkmani (Arabic: حسن توركماني‎ ‎ ; 27 January 1935 – 18 July 2012) was a prominent Syrian military commander and Ba'ath Party member, who served as minister of defense from 2004 to 2009.
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Ministry of Defence (Serbia) The Ministry of Defence of Republic of Serbia (Serbian: "Министарство одбране / Ministarstvo odbrane" ) is the ministry in the Government of Serbia which is in the charge of defending the Republic of Serbia from internal and external military threats. The current minister is Aleksandar Vulin, in office since 29 June 2017.
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Mustafa Abdul Jalil Mustafa Abdul Jalil (Arabic: مصطفى عبد الجليل‎ ‎ , also transcribed "Abdul-Jelil, Abd-al-Jalil", "Abdel-Jalil", "Abdeljalil" or "Abdu Al Jeleil") (born 1952) is a Libyan politician who was the Chairman of the National Transitional Council from 5 March 2011 until its dissolution on 8 August 2012. This position meant he was "de facto" head of state during a transitional period after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi's government in the Libyan Civil War, and until the handover of power to the General National Congress.
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Suqour al-Sham Brigades The Suqour al-Sham Brigades (Arabic: ألوية صقور الشام‎ ‎ , English: Hawks of the Levant Brigades ), also known as the Sham Falcons Brigades, was an armed rebel organisation formed by Ahmed Abu Issa early in the Syrian Civil War to fight against the Syrian Government. It was a member of the Islamic Front and a former unit of the Free Syrian Army and the Syrian Islamic Liberation Front. They have a history of coordinating with Ahrar al-Sham and al-Qaeda's al-Nusra Front (a group rebranded as Tahrir al-Sham since January 2017), though clashes with the latter broke out in January 2017. In March 2015, the Suqour al-Sham Brigades merged with Ahrar ash-Sham, but left Ahrar al-Sham in September 2016. Also, in September 2016, they joined the Army of Conquest which Ahrar al-Sham is also a member. On 25 January 2017, Suqour al-Sham rejoined Ahrar al-Sham, but later regained some autonomy as an ally of Ahrar al-Sham.
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Salim Idris Salim Idris (Arabic: سلیم ادریس‎ ‎ "Salīm Idrīs") (born 1957) is the former Chief of Staff of the Supreme Military Council (SMC) of the Free Syrian Army, which is the main Syrian armed opposition group. He has a PhD in "electronic radars" and speaks five languages, including English. An East German-trained electronics professor, he was a general in the Syrian Army when he defected in July 2012. Idris is widely considered to represent the moderate elements of Syria's armed opposition, as armed opposition leaders under his leadership have subscribed to the pro-democracy Proclamation of Principles.
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Iyad Ag Ghaly Iyad Ag Ghaly (Arabic: اياد اغ غالي‎ ‎ , sometimes romanised as Ag Ghali), also known as Abū al-Faḍl (Arabic: أبو الفضل‎ ‎ ), is a Malian Tuareg militant from Mali's Kidal Region. He has been active in the Tuareg rebellions against the government of Mali since the 1980s - particularly in the early 1990s - and, in 1988, founded the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Azawad. In the latest episode of the Tuareg upheavals in 2012, he featured as the founder and leader of the Islamist militant group Ansar Dine.
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Sayeed Salahudeen Syed Mohammed Yusuf Shah, popularly known as Syed Salahudeen, is the head of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, a terrorist group operating in Kashmir, and head of an alliance of anti-India militant groups, the United Jihad Council, that works to annex the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir to Pakistan . Salahuddin vowed to block any peaceful resolution to the Kashmir conflict, threatened to train more Kashmiri suicide bombers, and vowed to turn the Kashmir valley “into a graveyard for Indian forces.” He is listed on the NIA Most Wanted list. On 26 June 2017, he was named as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US Department Of State. After being designated as a Global terrorist, he addressed the Pakistani Media at Muzaffarabad’s Centre Press Club, claiming that "The declaration was a joint move by the US, Israel, and India to express their animosity towards Pakistan."
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Ministry of Defence (Bangladesh) The Ministry of Defence (MoD) (Bengali: প্রতিরক্ষা মন্ত্রণালয়; Protirakha Montronaloya ) is a Bangladeshi government ministry. The MoD is headed by the Minister of Defence, a civilian and member of cabinet; the post is usually held by the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, who also serves as the President's second-in-command of the military. In contrast to practice in other nations, the MoD does not exercise command authority over the Bangladesh Armed Forces, which is instead subordinate to the Armed Forces Division (AFD).
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Al Irata Al Irata is a group that the United States Department of Defense identifies as a terrorist group.
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Khaled Mashal Khaled Mashal (Arabic: خالد مشعل‎ ‎ "Khālid Mashʿal ", ] , born 28 May 1956) is a Palestinian political leader and the leader of the Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas since the Israeli assassination of Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi in 2004. He stepped down as Hamas' politburo chief at the end of his term limit in 2017.
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Abdirahman Mahdi Abdirahman Mahdi is the current Foreign Affairs Secretary and one of the founders of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), a political movement determined to allow the people of Ogaden to exercise their right to self-determination in the Horn of Africa. The ONLF is considered a terrorist organisation by the government of Ethiopia.
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Palestinian National Initiative Palestinian National Initiative (Arabic: المبادرة الوطنية الفلسطينية‎ ‎ ) is a Palestinian political party led by Mustafa Barghouti.
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Taliban insurgency The Taliban insurgency began shortly after the group's fall from power following the 2001 War in Afghanistan. The Taliban forces are fighting against the Afghan government, formerly led by President Hamid Karzai, now led by President Ashraf Ghani, and against the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The insurgency has spread to some degree over the Durand Line border to neighboring Pakistan, in particular the Waziristan region and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Taliban conduct low-intensity warfare against Afghan National Security Forces and their NATO trainers. Regional countries, particularly Pakistan and Iran, are often accused of funding and supporting the insurgent groups.
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People's Armed Forces The People's Armed Forces ("Forces Armées Populaires" or FAP) was a Chadian insurgent group composed of followers of Goukouni Oueddei after the schism with Hissène Habré in 1976. With an ethnic base in the Teda clan of the Toubou from the Tibesti area of northern Chad, the force was armed by Libya and formed the largest component of the Transitional Government of National Unity (GUNT) coalition army opposing Habré. FAP troops rebelled against their Libyan allies in the latter part of 1986. Many of them were subsequently integrated into the national army, the Chadian National Armed Forces (FANT), and participated in the 1987 attempt to drive Libya out of Chadian territory.
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Majid Kavian Majid Kavian (1982–3 September 2011) (Persian: مجید کاویان‎ ‎ ), also known as Semko Sarholdan was the deputy commander of the militant Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) until his death on 3 September 2011, at the age of 29. As the number two in command he was the chief commander of all PJAK's armed activities as the PJAK's number one leader, Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi lives in exile, in Germany.
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Ministry of Defense of Georgia The Ministry of Defense of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველოს თავდაცვის სამინისტრო , "sakartvelos tavdatsvis saministro") is the Georgian government ministry in charge of the Georgian Armed Forces and regulating activities in defence of the country from external threats, preserving territorial integrity and waging wars on behalf of Georgia. The Minister of Defence is appointed and removed from the post by the Prime Minister of Georgia. The ministry is currently headed by Levan Izoria.