Jamaat Jaysh Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamaah

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Jaysh Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamaah جيش أهل السنة والجماعة
Leaders	Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi †
Dates of operation	2004 – October 16, 2006
Active regions	Iraq
Ideology	Salafist jihadism Anti-Shi'ism
Part of	MSC (from January 15, 2006)
Opponents	Iraq  United States Mahdi Army  Iraqi Kurdistan Islamic Army of Iraq
Battles and wars	Iraq War Iraq Spring Fighting of 2004 Islamic Army–Al-Qaeda conflict Sectarian violence in Iraq (2006–2008)
Succeeded by Islamic State of Iraq

Jaysh Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamaah (Arabic: جيش أهل السنة والجماعة, romanized: Army of the Ahlus Sunnah) was an Iraqi Salafi insurgent group that fought against US troops and their local allies during the Iraq War. In 2006 the group aligned itself with al-Qaeda and helped establish the Mujahideen Shura Council.^[1][2]