Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya

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Al-Jamāʻah al-Islāmīyah (Arabic: الجماعة الإسلامية, lit. "Islamic Group") is an Egyptian Sunni Islamist movement based in Egypt and Syria. It is considered a terrorist organization by many world nations including the European Union, the United Kingdom, Israel, Russia, Canada, as well as the United Nations. It was similarly designated by the United States from 1997 to 2022 and has since remained under American sanctions. The group was dedicated to the overthrow of the Egyptian government and replacing it with an Islamic state. Since the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état and overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi, the group has committed to non-violent religious activities. Founded in the 1990s, the al-Gamāʻah al-islāmīyah fought an insurgency against the Egyptian government from 1992 to 1998 during which at least 796 Egyptian and al-Jamāʻah al-islāmīyah combatants as well as civilians were killed. Iran and Sudan provided proxy support for the group alongside al-Qaeda. The Egyptian government was...

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