The story What names should I know? al-Qaeda ...The Godfather of terror groups. Founded by Osama bin Laden in the late ‘80s, and responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Its goals are to install Islamic governments, and get rid of any Western influence along the way. Post 9/11, the West fought back -- and since then, most of al-Qaeda’s Taliban ...Afghanistan has 99 problems and the Taliban is number one. This is the Islamist extremist group that basically ran Afghanistan in the 90s and that -- bonus! -- the CIA actually once backed . It also provided a safe-haven to al-Qaeda, which is why the US took the group down after the 9/11 attacks. Since then, the Taliban has re-grouped in rural Afghanistan and across the border in Pakistan, where it enforces lovely things like no school for women AQAP ...al-Qaeda’s affiliates in Yemen and Saudi Arabia got married and called themselves al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- or AQAP. They claimed responsibility for the 2015 terror attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris and are considered one of the biggest threats to the West. Plus they're taking advantage of Yemen’s civil war al-Shabab ...al-Qaeda’s Somali cousins. You know them as the ones responsible for several large attacks in the past few years. They orchestrated a mall attack in Kenya’s capital in 2013, and the 2015 attack that killed 148 people on a college campus there. In 2016, they stormed a Kenyan base in Somalia, reportedly killing 180. Al-Shabab’s MO? Enforcing Islam, while killing others along the way -- in the college attack, the gunmen targeted Christians al-Nusra Front ...A Syrian rebel group that got together to fight President Bashar al-Assad . It’s also pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda. They’re in the awkward position ISIS ...or ISIL or IS. It’s the P. Diddy of terror groups, always changing to a worse name. And they're responsible for many of the terrorist attacks against the West in recent years. Al-Qaeda decided in 2014 that it was too extreme to hang out with. So there’s that. The group spent a lot of time grabbing territory across the Mideast, terrorizing minorities, and beheading Westerners, all while attempting to build an Islamic State. This led the US and friends to move in with airstrikes . A few years later, the war isn't over yet, but ISIS is losing ground Boko Haram ...Attention hogs based in Nigeria. The group killed more than 10,000 people there in 2015. It’s also infamous for kidnapping more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls . And they've pledged allegiance to ISIS. The Nigerian gov has had trouble fighting the group. Like that time their air force accidentally targeted Hamas ...A Palestinian militant group that doubles as a political party. It controlled the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory, for years. The group’s platform? Destroy Israel , and establish a Palestinian state. No surprise, this hasn’t gone over well with Israel. The two have a long history of violence and war. Iran’s been Hamas's longtime sugar daddy, despite a falling out Hezbollah ...All roads lead to Iran with this Lebanon-based group. Iran backs Syria’s President Assad , so Hezbollah does too . Iran wants Israel gone, so Hezbollah does too Haqqani Network ...They’re the Sopranos of terrorism -- a family-run insurgent group with ties to Afghanistan and Pakistan Khorasan Group ...The al-Qaeda All Stars tour that operates out of Syria . It’s considered a big, scary deal because the group is focused on recruiting Westerners theSkimm