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1999
First Recorded Activity

First Attack

Profile Last Updated

How to Cite

Crenshaw, M., & Robinson, K. (2025). Mapping Militants Project. Rice University. https://doi.org/10.25613/G0K4-WF70
Mapping Militants Project. “The Islamic Unity Movement of Kurdistan.” Last modified . https://mappingmilitants.org/node/540/

Profile Contents

Narrative

Narrative of the Organization's History

Organization

Leadership, Name Changes, Size Estimates, Resources, Geographic Locations

Strategy

Ideology, Aims, Political Activities, Targets, and Tactics

Interactions

Foreign Designations and Listings, Community Relations, Relations with Other Groups, State Sponsors and External Influences

Maps

Mapping relationships with other militant groups over time in regional maps

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Overview
Formed: 
January 1, 1999
Disbanded: 
January 1, 2001

The Islamic Unity Movement of Kurdistan (IUMK) was a Kurdish Islamist organization formed in 1999 by the merger of the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan (IMK), al-Nahda, and Kurdish Hamas. Very little is known about the IUMK, other than that it carried out a number of terrorist attacks against PUK and KDP strongholds throughout Iraqi Kurdistan. The group fell apart in 2001 when a large number of its members split off with Ali Bapir to form the Kurdistan Islamic Group and with Mullah Krekar to form the Reformist Group. Ali Abdul Aziz subsequently reformed the IMK with the remaining members of the IUMK.

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