Jund al-Sham () is or was the name of multiple Sunni Islamic jihadist militant groups. Founded around 1991 in Jordan and trained in 1999 in Afghanistan with financial support from Osama bin Laden, the group has perpetrated several terrorist attacks since 2004 in countries such as Lebanon and Qatar. The group has also fought the Syrian army in Syria from 2005 until March 2014. Jordan, Afghanistan, ca. 1991–1999 This group, established by Syrians, Palestinians and Jordanians linked to al-Zarqawi, is believed to have first "emerged" in Afghanistan in 1999. According to European Intelligence documents and Jordanian government sources, al-Zarqawi set up the Jund al-Sham's al-Matar Training Camp in 1999 in Afghanistan, near Herat, with $200,000 in startup money he received from Osama bin Laden. The camp taught the militants techniques in guerrilla warfare, explosives and chemical weapons. It is believed the group left Herat after its base of operations was disrupted by the October 2001 War in Afghanistan. 2004 Lebanon One of the Jund al-Sham groups, consisting of Palestinian militants, was based in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp for Palestinian refugees, near the southern port city of Sidon (also known as Saida), in South Lebanon. The Washington Post in 2006 suggested that this Lebanese Jund group was not connected with the Jund al-Sham group in 1999 in Afghanistan, but produced no arguments for that thesis. This Lebanon-based group was an anti-Fatah organization formed in 2004 and was considered a splinter group of Osbat al-Nour (in Arabic عصبة النور) led by Abdullah Shraidi. 2005 Lebanon/Syria/Qatar On March 19, 2005 Jund Ash Sham killed one British teacher outside of Doha Players theater in Doha in Qater, and injured 12 other people. The group that month claimed for the suicide bombing in Qatar. In July 2005, Jund Ash Sham faxed a threat to assassinate several prominent Hezbollah allies and leaders, including former spiritual leader of the movement Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, at the Shiite Fatwa Center in Lebanese Tyre. Amnesty International reported on a September 2005 clash of Syrian Army against Jund al-Sham near Hama: Heba al-Khaled, Rola al-Khaled and Nadia al-Satour were arrested on 3 September 2005, following, according to Syrian state media, a gun battle in Hama province, in the west of the country, between the Anti-Terror Squad and militants of the Jund al-Sham ("Soldiers of the Levant") armed group. Five Jund al-Sham members were reportedly killed and two security officers