Leaders Sheikh Salahuddin | ||
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Opponents Syrian Armed ForcesIslamic State of Iraq and the LevantSyrian Democratic ForcesAfghan National Security Forces Battles and wars Syrian Civil WarSiege of Al-Fu'ah-Kafriya (2015)Battle of AleppoNorthwestern Syria offensive (April–June 2015)2016 Latakia offensiveWar in Afghanistan (2015–present) | ||
The Imam Bukhari Jamaat (Uzbek: Imom Buxoriy Katibasi) is an Islamist Salafi group fighting in the Syrian Civil War and the War in Afghanistan, composed of primarily Uzbeks, and expressing loyalty to the Taliban movement. The group originally operated only in Syria, where it is allied with other jihadist organisations such as al-Nusra Front and Ahrar ash-Sham, and alongside these other groups it makes up the Army of Conquest, which overran much of Idlib province in north Syria in 2015. Since late 2016, the group has also began to fight against Afghan National Security Forces, and has claimed to have set up training camps in northern Afghanistan.
The group is named after Imam Bukhari, a 9th-century Islamic scholar who was from Bukhara in modern-day Uzbekistan.