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.

The group was founded by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi with the support of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, but exactly when is uncertain.

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. As a result of the bombing, 7 people were killed and 35 injured,^[4] and the crush on the bridge estimated that between 953 and 1,033 people were killed and between 322 and 815 injured in what became known as the 2005 Al-Aimmah Bridge disaster.

On January 15, 2006, an organization known as the Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq announced its establishment. Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah has been declared one of its constituent groups, along with al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Monotheism Brigades, the Sarai al-Jihad group, the al-Ghurab Brigades and the al-Ahwal Brigades.

• Al-Qaeda in Iraq
• Iraqi insurgency
• List of armed groups in the Iraqi Civil War