[1] The group faction was established in the 2000s and headquartered in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan.
During the late 2000s, the group claimed responsibility for many kidnappings and murders which include the beheading of Piotr Stańczak.
[6] On 13 July 2016, the US killed the leader of Tariq Gidar Group, Umar Naray, who had also masterminded the 2014 Peshawar school massacre in a targeted airstrike in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan (before the Taliban take-over and the Fall of Kabul in 2021) near the Pakistani-Afghani border known as the Durand Line.
[8] On 22 March 2019, the United Nations Security Council officially added Tariq Gidar Group onto the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee.
[9] Though the Pakistani government has stated that through Operation Zarb-e-Azb the Tariq Gidar Group has been destroyed, they still remain active in the Darra Adam Khel area.