a radical Islamic group of terrorists in the Iraqi part of Kurdistan who oppose an independent secular nation as advocated by the United States; some members fought with the Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan; said to receive financial support from Saddam Hussein

Militant Islamist group, Iraq-based.

Militant group, primarily active Pakistan.

Lebanese Sunni Islamist militant group.

Ansar Dine (ʾAnṣār ad-Dīn, also transliterated Ançar Deen), meaning "helpers of the religion" (Islam) (Defenders of the Faith) and also known as Ansar al-Din (abbreviated as AAD), was a Salafi jihadist group led by Iyad Ag Ghaly.

Ansar Allah or Ansarullah is the Arabic for "Helpers/Supporters of God".

an al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamist jihadist militant group active in Kashmir.

Jamaat Ansar al-Sunnah, also known as Jaish Ansar al-Sunna (Army of the Helpers of Sunnah), Ali ibn Abi Talib Battalion or simply as Ansar al-Sunnah was an Iraqi Sunni insurgent group that fought against US troops and their local allies during the Iraq War.

The Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (also known as the Ansar Bahini or Ansar VDP) is a paramilitary auxiliary force responsible for the preservation of internal security and law enforcement in Bangladesh.

Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, or Ansar Al-Quds, was an Islamist jihadist, extremist terrorist group based in the Sinai Peninsula from 2011 to 2014.

Al Ansar Football Club is a football club based in Tariq El Jdideh, a district in Beirut, Lebanon, that competes in the .