Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, is an Islamist militant organization that aims to overthrow the Algerian government and institute an Islamic state. To that end, it is currently engaged in an insurgency campaign in the Maghreb and Sahel regions.
AQIM fighters in a 2015 propaganda video, filmed in the Sahara Desert.
AQIM Tuareg militant in Sahel, December 2012.
Salafi jihadism
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Salafi jihadism, also known as revolutionary Salafism or jihadist Salafism, is a religious-political Sunni Islamist ideology that seeks to establish a global caliphate, characterized by the advocacy of "physical" (military) jihadist attacks on non-Muslim targets. The Salafist interpretation of sacred Islamic texts is "in their most literal, traditional sense", which adherents claim will bring about the return to "true Islam".
The revolutionary ideals advocated by Islamist scholar Sayyid Qutb through his prison-writings constitute the ideological basis of the Salafi-Jihadi movement
Islamic cleric Abu Qatada al-Falastini
Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, Emir of al-Qaeda in Iraq and prominent Islamist leader who was killed during the anti-American insurgency in Iraq, is widely regarded as an influential figure by Salafi Jihadists