"affiliate groups" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to groups or organizations that are officially connected or associated with each other. Example: The main company has several affiliate groups that help promote their products in different regions.
Al Qaeda's affiliate groups receive short shrift: only the Yemeni branch gets any real attention.
It points to the power of the internet as a recruiting ground for al-Qaida affiliate groups.
The drone strikes have been the Obama administration's preferred means of hunting and killing operatives from Al Qaeda and its affiliate groups.
The Women's March announced the shift in focus to its local leaders, who manage the group's affiliate groups, in a virtual meeting this past week.
These new gathering areas sprinkled throughout the campus will also feature brief lunchtime performances several times a week from student and affiliate groups.
The spectrum of terrorism is widening and now includes attacks loosely inspired by the Islamic State, those carried out by its affiliate groups and attacks directed by the group's leadership.
Tribune, which is part-owner of WB, will become the principal affiliate group.
"Clear Channel is now the biggest affiliate group carrying Air America," said Jack Messmer, executive editor of Radio Business Report, a trade publication.
They said excluding the former al-Qaida affiliate group, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, from the deal, but not foreign militias backed by Iran, showed double standards.
On Sunday, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, a hardline affiliate group of Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party, offered ritual prayers in Delhi for the mission.
A Russian air strike has killed at least 39 people at a prison run by an al-Qaeda affiliate group in Syria, activists have said.
