Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah

Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah (Arabic: جيش الطائفة المنصورة, romanized: Army of the Victorious Sect) was an Iraqi Salafi-jihadist 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.

In May 2004, Jaish al-Taif al-Mansour kidnapped Interenergoservice workers Alexander Gordienko and Andrei Meshcherakov[2] and demanded the withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq.

This group gained notoriety on August 31, 2005,[3] thanks to the mortar shelling near the Al-Aim Bridge over the Tigris River, across which a Shia procession marched to the tomb of Imam Musa al-Kazim.

On January 15, 2006, an organization known as the Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq announced its establishment.