Mali

The al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine, which along with another Islamist group holds two-thirds of Mali, said it wants to “peacefully convince” the rest of Mali to join with it to create an Islamist state. The Islamist expansion would proceed by imposing sharia and by “avoid[ing] harm being brought to other jihadists in the world,” the group stated.

Iraq

Islamic state

Syria

Aqap

Al shabaab

Boko Haram

Isis