Al-Badr (Arabic: البدر‎, al-badr "the full moon") is an Islamic militant group operating in the Jammu Kashmir region.[1][2][3][4][5] The group was allegedly formed by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in June 1998.[1][2][3][4] It is believed the group was encouraged by the ISI to operate independently from their previous umbrella group, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM).[1][2][3][4] Prior to the group's separation from HM, they participated in the fighting in Afghanistan in 1990 as part of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizb-l-Islami (HIG) alongside other anti-Soviet Afghan mujihadeen.[3][4][5] Government of India and the USA has declared and banned it as a Terrorist organisation.[6][5]