The 14th Amendment is something that many sovereign citizens argue created an entirely new class of citizens. Those who joined this new class were subject to the authority of the federal government. Prior to this amendment, Sovereign... Read more

Co-founder of Hamas along with Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Rantisi served as Hamas's political leader and opposed any cooperation with the Israeli government, instead insisting that the only acceptable outcome was the establishment of a Palestinian state including... Read more

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was the leader of ISIS's predecessor organization, Al Qaeda in Iraq. Al Qaeda in Iraq split from the central Al Qaeda terrorist organization in 2004. As leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Zarqawi emphasized... Read more

The Abu Sayyaf Group (ISIS Philippines), also referred to as ISIS East Asia, is a conglomeration of smaller Filipino Islamist groups which pledged allegiance to ISIS starting in 2014. The groups have attracted Western fighters, including from... Read more

The Afghan mujahideen were the religiously-motivated insurgents who banded together to oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Most of the major leaders in Islamist extremist groups initially trained, fought and rose to prominence during this... Read more

Ahmad Abousamra was a Syrian-American extremist, foreign fighter and editor-in-chief of ISIS's English language publication, Dabiq Magazine, which focused on recruiting Westerners as foreign fighters. He was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Syria in January... Read more

Ahmad Khan Rahimi (b. 1988) is an Afghan-born U.S. citizen who detonated two pipe bombs in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City on September 17, 2016, injuring 30 people. He placed a third bomb in New... Read more

Al Furqan Media is ISIS's oldest official media outlet, established in 2006. It releases attack reports and messages from ISIS leadership.