title: Ashtar
text: # Ashtar
  
  Ashtar may refer to:
  
  * Ashtar (extraterrestrial being), an allegedly channeled alien with a flying saucer fleet that operates in the vicinity of Earth
  * Malik al-Ashtar (died 658), companion of Ali Ibn Abi Talib, cousin of Muhammad, and Arab military commander
  * alternate spelling of the Ethiopian Aksumite god Attar
  * Ashtar, the Emperor of Darkness, an antagonist in the 1990 video game Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos
  * Ashtar, an Iranian sniper rifle; see List of military equipment manufactured in Iran
  