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2001
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First Attack

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How to Cite

Crenshaw, M., & Robinson, K. (2025). Mapping Militants Project. Rice University. https://doi.org/10.25613/G0K4-WF70
Mapping Militants Project. “The Reformist Group.” Last modified . https://mappingmilitants.org/node/544/

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, 2001
Disbanded: 
January 1, 2001

The Reformist Group was a Kurdish Islamist group that broke away from the Islamic Unity Movement of Kurdistan (IUMK) in early-mid 2001, under the leadership of Mullah Krekar. Krekar had previously been a member of the IMK and subsequently of Kurdish Hamas and the IUMK. Other than its Salafi Sunni ideology, little is known about the Reformist group as it was only in existence for a matter of months before merging with several other Arab and Kurdish Islamist groups to form Ansar al-Islam. Krekar was appointed head of this new organization.

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Strategy

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