The US State Department revealed that most terrorist organizations operating in the Middle East have already lost strength.

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A report by the State Department on terrorist groups indicates that the majority of organizations operating in the Middle East have lost strength and their threat is minor.

Martyrs Brigade Aka al-Aqsa.

It was designated on March 27, 2002 and is composed of Fatah-affiliated activist cells that emerged at the beginning of the al-Aqsa Intifada in September 2000. It strives to establish a Palestinian state loyal to Fatah.

In 2002, the group attacked Israeli civilians within Israel. In January 2002, the responsibility of the first suicide attack committed by a woman in Israel was attributed. In 2010 and 2011, the group launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli communities.

According to the report, in 2015, al-Aqsa declared an open war against Israel and requested funds from Iran to help him in his fight against Israel in a televised broadcast. In it, a fighter showed a new two-mile tunnel that crosses the border under Gaza and Israel, which the leader claimed would be used in the next battle rounds.

Most of the Brigade's operational activity is in Gaza, but it has also planned and executed attacks within Israel and the West Bank.

According to the report, Iran has provided the Brigade with funds and guidance, mainly through Hezbollah facilitators.

Islam army

Appointed on May 19, 2011, the Army of Islam, founded in late 2005, is an extremist Gaza-based organization responsible for numerous terrorist acts against the Israeli and Egyptian government.

He is responsible for several rocket attacks against Israel and the kidnappings of civilians in 2006 and 2007, including an American journalist. He also carried out the attacks in early 2009 against Egyptian civilians in Cairo and Heliopolis, Egypt, and planned the attack on January 1, 2011 against a Christian church in Alexandria that killed 25 and wounded 100.

In September 2015, it was reported that the Army of Islam issued a statement promising loyalty to ISIS. The group released a video in October 2017 in an effort to encourage ISIS fighters defending Mosul.

The organization, estimated at hundreds of people, operates in Egypt, Gaza and Israel. He receives much of his funding from a variety of criminal activities in Gaza.

Hamas
Hamas troops in Gaza. (Reuters)
Hamas troops in Gaza. (Reuters)

Also known as the Islamic Resistance Movement, it was designated as a terrorist group on October 8, 1997. Hamas was born in 1987 at the beginning of the first Palestinian uprising, or Intifada, as a result of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The armed element, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, has carried out anti-Israeli attacks, including suicide attacks against civilian targets within Israel. After winning the elections of the Palestinian Legislative Council in January 2006, Hamas gained control of some ministries of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Gaza, including the Ministry of Interior. In 2007, Hamas expelled the Palestinian and Fatah Authority from Gaza in a violent takeover. He remained the de facto ruler in Gaza in 2018.

Since 2007, Hamas and Fatah have made several attempts at reconciliation, although all attempts until the end of 2018 have failed.

Hamas is made up of several thousand members based in Gaza. It has a presence in the West Bank and in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.

According to the report, Hamas has received financing, weapons and training from Iran and raises funds in Gulf countries. He also receives donations from Palestinian expatriates, as well as from his own charities.

Boko Haram
Boko Haram
Boko Haram

Also known as the Nigerian Taliban, it was designated on November 14, 2013. The group is responsible for numerous attacks in northern and northeastern Nigeria and in the Lake Chad basin in Cameroon, Chad and Niger that have killed thousands of people since 2009

In March 2015, he promised loyalty to the Islamic State group in an audio message. ISIS accepted the group's proposal, and began to be called ISIS-West Africa.

Since 2009, Boko Haram has killed about 20,000 people and displaced more than two million. In 2014, he killed about 5,000 Nigerian civilians. The kidnapping of 276 students from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno state, attracted worldwide attention to the organization's activities and highlighted its deliberate goal of non-combatants, including children.

Between January 3 and 7, 2015, he carried out a massacre in Baga, Borno state, where between 150 and more than 2,000 dead, injured or missing were reported. The attacks of January 2015 and other operations in the smaller surrounding villages in 2015 displaced some 35,000 people and allowed Boko Haram to gain control of the state of Borno.

It operates in northeastern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, southeastern Niger and the Chad areas along the border with Nigeria.

Boko Haram is largely financed through criminal activities such as looting, extortion, kidnapping and bank robberies.

Hezbollah
A Kurdish fighter with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fires at a drone operated by ISIS near Baghouz, Syria. (Ivor Prickett / The New York Times)
A Kurdish fighter with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fires at a drone operated by ISIS near Baghouz, Syria. (Ivor Prickett / The New York Times)

He was appointed on October 8, 1997. Formed in 1982 after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the radical Shiite group based in Lebanon takes its ideological inspiration from the Iranian revolution and the teachings of the late Ayatollah Khomeini.

The group generally follows the religious guidance of the Iranian supreme leader. He is closely allied with Iran and the two often work together on shared initiatives, although Hezbollah also acts independently in some cases. It shares a close relationship with the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad and, like Iran, provides assistance, including combatants, to the forces of the Syrian regime.

According to the report, Hezbollah is responsible for multiple terrorist attacks.