ABDALLAH AZZAM BRIGADES (AAB)

An armed group that has carried out joint attacks with Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant (QDe.137). Review pursuant to Security Council resolution 2368 (2017) was concluded on 4 Dec. 2019. Review pursuant to Security Council resolution 2610 (2021) was concluded on 30 October 2023.

An armed group that has carried out joint attacks with Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant (Qde.137). Review pursuant to Security Council resolution 2368 (2017) was concluded on 4 Dec. 2019. Review pursuant to Security Council resolution 2610 (2021) was concluded on 30 October 2023.

Other information: Operates in Lebanon, Syria and the Arabian Peninsula. Date of designation referred to in Article 2a(4)(b): 23.9.2014.

The AAB is an Al Qaida affiliated militant group that follows Salafist ideology. The group is a fluid network organized into a number of regional battalions, including the Ziyad al-Jarrah Battalions based in Lebanon. The AAB has claimed responsibility for several rocket attacks in northern Israel and has also repeatedly articulated its intent to carry out attacks against Western targets in the Middle East. Since the start of protests in Syria, the AAB's communiqués have supported regime overthrow. AAB relies primarily on rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and suicide bombings. In 2014, the AAB claimed joint responsibility with Jabhat al-Nusra for rocket attacks in Hermel, Lebanon. The AAB also claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings near the Iranian cultural centre in Beirut, Lebanon, in February, 2014. AAB continued to operate with limited government control within Lebanon, primarily inside Lebanon’s 12 Palestinian refugee camps. These groups used the Palestinian camps to house weapons, shelter wanted criminals, and plan terrorist attacks. AAB did not claim responsibility for attacks between 2018-2020, and leadership announced its dissolution in the Levant (Syria) in November 2019.

Review pursuant to Security Council resolution 2368 (2017) was concluded on 4 Dec 2019. available.

AAB also claimed joint responsibility with Al-Nusrah Front in Lebanon for several rocket attacks in Hermel, Lebanon, in Dec 2013, January 2014, and Mar 2014. In Dec 2014, Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani (QI.A.317.13), the leader of Al-Nusrah Front, publicly stated that his group now had a Lebanese wing that had claimed responsibility for the Hermel rocket attack.

Abdallah Azzam Brigades was listed on 23 Sep 2014 pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 4 of resolution 2161 (2014) as being associated with Al-Qaida for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of”, “recruiting for” and “otherwise supporting acts or activities of”Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant (QE.A.137.14). An armed group that has carried out joint attacks with Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant (QE.A.137.14.).

AAB has also claimed responsibility for multiple attacks in Lebanon linked to the uprising in Syria, including the Nov 2013 attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, which killed 147 people, and the Feb 2014 suicide bomb attack against the Iranian Cultural Center in Beirut that killed 129. After the Iranian Cultural Center bombing, AAB released a statement saying that the attacks were a sign of solidarity with the Syrian uprising.

Operates in Lebanon, Syria and the Arabian Peninsula.

During 2014, AAB carried out joint attacks with Al-Nusrah Front. For example, in summer 2014, the two groups carried out a joint attack in the Qalumun area, Syria.

Abdallah Azzam Brigades (AAB) was formed in 2009 and is connected to Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant (QE.A.137.14). AAB is divided into two branches, the Lebanon-based Ziyad al-Jarrah Battalions and the Arabian Peninsula-based Yusuf al-'Uyayri Battalions.

Other information: Operates in Lebanon, Syria and the Arabian Peninsula. Date of designation referred to in Article 2a(4)(b): 23.9.2014.

groupe armé qui a mené des attaques conjointes avec Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant

An armed group that has carried out joint attacks with Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant (QDe.137). Review pursuant to Security Council resolution 2368 (2017) was concluded on 4 Dec. 2019. INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice web link: https://www.interpol.int/en/How-we-work/Notices/View-UN-Notices-Entities.

An armed group that has carried out joint attacks with Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant (QDe.137). Review pursuant to Security Council resolution 2368 (2017) was concluded on 4 Dec. 2019.

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An armed group that has carried out joint attacks with Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant (QDe.137). Review pursuant to Security Council resolution 2368 (2017) was concluded on 4 Dec. 2019. Review pursuant to Security Council resolution 2610 (2021) was concluded on 30 October 2023.

An armed group that has carried out joint attacks with Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant (QDe.137). Review pursuant to Security Council resolution 2368 (2017) was concluded on 4 Dec. 2019.