UCDP

General information

Part of Conflict: n/a

First Battle Related Death: 2005-03-10

Date when dyad reached 25 battle releated deaths: 2005-03-10
Comment on date when dyad reached 25 battle related deaths: Jamaat Jund al-Sahaba first became active as a one-sided actor in UCDP data in 2005, when the one-sided violence resulted in at least 25 civilian deaths. The threshold was reached on 6 May 2005 following a suicide car bomb attack on a market place in the southern Iraqi town of Suwayra where at least 31 people were killed.

Conflict issues

Annual information

This section contains annual information systematically collected by the UCDP.

2005

Estimated Fatalities
High	87
Best	87
Low	87

Secondary Warring Support:

Side A (Jamaat Jund al-Sahaba): n/a

Side B (Civilians): n/a

2006

Estimated Fatalities
High	74
Best	69
Low	69

Secondary Warring Support:

Side A (Jamaat Jund al-Sahaba): n/a

Side B (Civilians): n/a

Dyad Archive

This section contains annual information no longer systematically collected by the UCDP.

2005 Dyad Archive

Comment on Active: The Jamaat Jund al-Sahaba claimed responsibility for a few high-profile bomb attacks, targeting Shia Muslims at market places and outside mosques.

Terminated: NO

2006 Dyad Archive

Comment on Active: The Jamaat Jund al-Sahaba claimed responsibility for a few high-profile bomb attacks, targeting Shia Muslims outside a gas station and outside a religious shrine.

One of the statements of the group claiming responsibility for an attack was published on the website of TQJBR (Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn, The Organization of Jihads Base in the Country of the Two Rivers), which indicated a connection between the two groups. As an eventual consequence, the Jamaat Jund al-Sahaba ceased to exist as an independent organisation in October 2006 as it merged into TQJBR when the latter proclaimed itself the ISI (Islamic State in Iraq).