5 Facts About Hizbul Mujahideen

1. Harakat al-Shabaab Hizbul Mujahideen is said to have non-Somali foreigners in its ranks, particularly among its leadership.

2. An outfit calling itself the Indian Hizbul Mujahideen came to light in 2008 with multiple large scale terror attacks.

3. Hizbul Mujahideen were deemed responsible for the decapitation of six young Russian conscripts caught in Dagestan during a rebel incursion.

4. Hizbul Mujahideen forces caused serious casualties to the Soviet forces, and made the war very costly for the Soviet Union.

5. Hizb-ul-Hizbul Mujahideen is a Kashmiri separatist militant organization founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989.