Jund al-Sham

Jund al-Sham (Arabic: جند الشام‎, lit. 'The Sham Division'‎) is or was the name of multiple Sunni Islamic jihadist militant groups. Founded around 1991 in Jordan, trained in 1999 in Afghanistan with financial support from Osama bin Laden, it has perpetrated bomb attacks since 2004 in Lebanon, Qatar, and fought the Syrian army in Syria from 2005 until March 2014.

Jund al-Sham

Jund al-Sham (Arabic: جند الشام‎, lit. 'The Sham Division'‎) is or was the name of multiple Sunni Islamic jihadist militant groups. Founded around 1991 in Jordan, trained in 1999 in Afghanistan with financial support from Osama bin Laden, it has perpetrated bomb attacks since 2004 in Lebanon, Qatar, and fought the Syrian army in Syria from 2005 until March 2014.