Profile type
Basic
Organisation status
Defunct
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Other names and spellings
Аджнад аль-Кавказ
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Brief description
Adzhnad al-Kavkaz was a Chechen insurgent group that fought alongside other jihadist factions in the Syrian conflict against Bashar al-Asad. It recruited mainly through personal networks in the Chechen diaspora. It cooperated with various groups, including Jund al-Sham and Jaysh al-Khilafah al-Islamiya
Leadership
The group was led throughout its existence by Rustam Azhiyev, a veteran of the Second Chechen War. Its military emir was Khamza al-Shishani. The group was always small and functioned effectively as Azhiyev’s personal faction.
