Saraya Ansar al-Aqeeda
{{Infobox militant organization
| name = Saraya Ansari al-Aqeeda
| native_name = سرايا انصار العقيده
| native_name_lang = ar
| active = 2012-Present
| allies = * Popular Mobilization Forces
- Kata'ib Hezbollah{{Cite web |url=https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PF138Appendices/PF138_Appendix_2.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=16 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325074712/https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Documents/pubs/PF138Appendices/PF138_Appendix_2.pdf |archive-date=25 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}
- {{IRQ}}
- {{IRN}}
- {{flagicon|Hamas}} Hamas{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT6OT8eED_w |title=اللواء ٢٨ يبارك للشعب الفلسطيني عملية طوفان الاقصى |date=2023-10-12 |last=سرايا انصار العقيدة |access-date=2024-05-26 |via=YouTube}}
| opponents = * {{flagicon|Islamic State}} Islamic State
| battles = Third Battle of Fallujah
| war = Syrian civil war
}}
Saraya Ansar al-Aqeeda ({{langx|ar|سرايا انصار العقيده|lit=Supporters of the Creed Brigade}}) is an Iraqi Shia Islamist militia.
History
Saraya Ansar al-Aqeeda was formed in June 2014 by Jalal al-Din Ali al-Saghir and Iraqi Shiite militiamen who left to fight in Syria in 2012,{{Cite web |last=راضي |first=علي محسن |date=2014-07-20 |title=إعلان تشكيل سرايا أنصار العقيدة ضمن الحشد الشعبي |url=http://burathanews.com/arabic/news/242750 |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=وكالة أنباء براثا |language=ar-iq}} before returning to Iraq during the Islamic State offensives in 2014.{{Cite news |last=Gulmohamad |first=Zana K. |date=April 29, 2016 |title=Iraq's Shia Militias: Helping or Hindering the Fight Against Islamic State? |language=en-US |work=Jamestown Foundation |url=https://jamestown.org/program/iraqs-shia-militias-helping-or-hindering-the-fight-against-islamic-state/ |access-date=2023-06-25}}
In 2016, Saraya Ansar al-Aqeeda started military campaigns in Fallujah against the Islamic State as revenge for the Islamic State killing some of Saraya Ansar al-Aqeeda's soldiers.{{Cite journal |date=June 15, 2016 |title=Is the Battle for Fallujah a Battle Against Fallujah? |url=https://jmepp.hkspublications.org/2016/06/15/battle-fallujah/ |journal=Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy |volume=1 |issue=1}}
On October 12th 2023, Saraya al-Aqeeda would upload a YouTube video titled "اللواء ۲۸ يبارك للشعب الفلسطيني عملية طوفان الاقصى" (English:The 28th Brigade congratulates the Palestinian people on Operation Al-Aqsa Flood) in which they congratulated Hamas for the actions they took during the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT6OT8eED_w |title=اللواء ٢٨ يبارك للشعب الفلسطيني عملية طوفان الاقصى |date=2023-10-12 |last=سرايا انصار العقيدة |access-date=2024-05-26 |via=YouTube}}
References
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{{Militant Islamism in the Middle East}}
{{Armed groups in the Iraqi conflict}}