Sunni Islamist militant organization
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Arabic : تنظيم القاعدة في جزيرة العرب , romanized : Tanẓīm al-Qā‘idah fī Jazīrat al-‘Arab , lit. 'Organization of the Base in the Arabian Peninsula ' or تنظيم قاعدة الجهاد في جزيرة العرب , Tanẓīm Qā‘idat al-Jihād fī Jazīrat al-‘Arab , "Organization of Jihad 's Base in the Arabian Peninsula"), abbreviated as AQAP ,[ 7] also known as Ansar al-Sharia in Yemen (Arabic : جماعة أنصار الشريعة , Jamā‘at Anṣār ash-Sharī‘ah , "Group of the Helpers of the Sharia "),[ 30] is a Sunni Islamist insurgent extremist group, which is part of the al-Qaeda network and primarily active in Yemen and Saudi Arabia .[ 7] [ 31] It is considered the most active[ 32] of al-Qaeda's branches that emerged after the weakening of central leadership.[ 33]
The group established an emirate during the 2011 Yemeni Revolution , which waned in power after foreign interventions in the subsequent Yemeni Civil War . The group has been designated a terrorist organization by the United Nations , United States , Saudi Arabia , UAE and several countries.
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