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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is part of Iran’s armed forces, separate from the traditional military but complementary to it. The group is tasked with defending Iran’s revolutionary regime, which took power in 1979, and answers... Read more
Kata’ib Hezbollah (also Kata’ib Hizballah) is an Iraqi Shia militant group that seeks to institute an Iran-aligned government in Iraq, remove U.S. and coalition forces from the country and further Iranian interests in the region. KH has... Read more
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), also known as Palestine Islamic Jihad, is a radical Islamist extremist organization inspired by the Iranian revolution of 1979. It was established by Palestinian students in Egypt who were admirers of the... Read more
Hezbollah (“Party of God”) is a Shia terrorist organization based primarily in Lebanon, where it also maintains a powerful domestic political power base. The purpose of Hezbollah’s existence is to pose a constant existential threat to Israel... Read more
Islamic State-Sinai Province (also ISIS-Sinai Province and ISIS-Sinai) is an ISIS branch and active Salafi-jihadist terrorist group operating in Egypt. The group seeks to expand ISIS’s activities in the Sinai Peninsula. Since 2014, the group has carried... Read more
Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya (HAMAS or Hamas) is an Iran-backed Islamist terror group formed during the First Intifada in 1987. The group is avowed to the destruction of the State of Israel and aims to establish an... Read more
