Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order

Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order
Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order
جيش رجال الطريقة النقشبندية
	The emblem of the JRTN.; Text within the parentheses reads "A Victory from Allah and an Imminent Conquest".; Bottom text reads "Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order"
Leaders	Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri # (founder, 2006–2020)
Dates of operation	30 December 2006 – present
Country	Iraq
Allegiance	Ba'athist Iraq Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region; ;
Group	Intifada Ahrar al-Iraq (2012-13)
Motives	Re-establishment of Ba'athist Iraq; Overthrowing the Islamic Republic of Iran
Active regions	Northwestern and western Iraq; Sunni Triangle; Baghdad Belts
Ideology	Ba'athism; Saddamism; Iraqi nationalism; Arab nationalism; Arab-Islamic nationalism; Pan-Arabism; Sunni Islamism
Size	5,000 volunteers (2011)
Part of	Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation (2007–2011)
Allies	Ansar al-Sunna; GMCIR; Free Iraqi Army (until 2014); Anbar Tribal Council; Hurras al-Din (alleged); Saudi Arabia (alleged)
Opponents	Republic of Iraq Kurdistan Region; Popular Mobilization Forces Promised Day Brigades; Badr Brigades; Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq; Kata'ib Hezbollah; ; Iran; Ba'athist Syria; United States; Islamic State of Iraq and Levant
Wars	the Iraq War, the Iraqi insurgency (2011–13), and the Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
Designated as a terrorist group by	Iraq; United States
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Website	alnakshabandia.net

The Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order (Arabic: جيش رجال الطريقة النقشبندية, romanized: Jaysh Rijāl al-Ṭarīqah al-Naqshbandiyya, JRTN), also known as the Naqshbandi Army, is one of a number of underground Ba'athist militant insurgency groups fighting U.S.-led Coalition forces in Iraq. Media frequently refers to the group by the initials JRTN, a romanization of its Arabic name. Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation, technically the name of the umbrella organization to which JRTN belongs, is also often used to refer to JRTN specifically.

It was named after the Naqshbandi Sufi order. The JRTN's ideology has been described as "a mix of Islamic and pan-Arab nationalistic ideas", and "under the influence of Ba'athist and Islamist political ideals" with Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri being described as "the hidden sheikh of the Men of the Naqshbandis".