In October 2016, the group, calling itself Harakah al-Yaqin (or the Faith Movement in English), claimed responsibility for attacks on Burmese border posts along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, which left 9 border officers and 4 soldiers dead [REF].
On 14 December 2016, the International Crisis Group (ICG) reported that in interviews, the leaders of the group claimed to have links to private individuals in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.