Anas Ibn Malik Brigade (Jihadi Entity, Tunisia)

• Local Name: N/a
• Transliteration: Katibat Anas Ibn Malik
• Alternatives: N/a
• Status: 2014 – 2015 Defeated
• Conflicts: Tunisian Islamist Militancy

The Anas Ibn Malik Brigade [KAIM; Katibet Anas Ibnou Malek] was a small and shadowy Salafi jihadi outfit operating in northeastern Tunisia. The group was based in the hills surrounding the town of Kerbous, in the Nabeul governorate.¹ It reportedly posed as an outdoor sports group to avoid detection by the authorities.² The KAIM supposedly included several people linked to the Soldiers of Asad Ibn al-Furat [JAIF; Jund Asab Ibn al-Furat] which clashed with security forces in late 2006 and early 2007.³ The outfit was headed by Mongi Oueslati.⁴

The KAIM was apparently formed somewhere in 2014. At least two of the group’s members allegedly traveled to Syria that year.⁵ In July 2014, cadres of the KAIM vandalized an office of the nationalist Nidaâ Tounès party in the village of Mrissa.⁶ After the arrest of several of the group’s members in Hammamet, KAIM cadres set fire to the office in Mrissa on Feb. 07, 2015.⁷ The authorities arrested a key operative of the outfit a few days after the attack.⁸ Following the February 2015 incidents, the KAIM was never heard from again.