Ten Rings

"The Ten Rings aren't your typical terrorists. They've raised secrecy to an art form. We still don't have the first clue what's really behind them."

- Nick Fury to Phil Coulson

The Ten Rings is a terrorist organization led by the mysterious Mandarin. When they attacked and abducted Tony Stark in Afghanistan, he made a suit of armor to escape which turned him into the superhero known as Iron Man.

History
The Ten Rings were a terrorist organisation of the Middle-East operating under the leadership of Mandarin. Stark Industries' second in command, Obadiah Stane sold them weapons illegally to help them achieve their purposes, and later made a deal with them, they would kidnap Stark Industries' CEO Tony Stark, force him to create a WMD and kill him, allowing Obadiah to take over the control of Stark Industries.

After weeks in captivity, Stark created a suit of armor powered by the new invention of a miniaturized arc reactor, rather than the weapon he was tasked to build, and successfully escaped. Stark upgraded the suit the following days after his return to the United States into the Iron Man armor, and attacked various camps of the Ten Rings, destroying their weapons from Stark Industries and their members. Days later, the Ten Rings found in the desert the rests of the armor Stark used to escape and rebuilt it, informing Stane about it. Ten Ring's commander Raza proposed a deal with Obadiah Stane, he would give him the armor free of charge only if Stane supplied him with an army of Iron Soldiers. Obadiah refused, instead paralysing Raza and taking the suit. Stane's men then execute the remaining Ten Rings soldiers, and possibly Raza.

A member of the Ten Rings later aided Ivan Vanko to travel to the United States in order to accomplish a revenge on Stark.

Around the same time, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Natasha Romanoff ruined one Ten Rings operation. She boarded the Ten Rings plane and caused its explosion. After that action, she was sent by Nick Fury to infiltrate Stark Industries under the guise of Natalie Rushman.

Some months after Vanko attacked the Stark Expo, the Ten Rings settled a trap to James Rhodes, a friend of Stark and pilot of a suit similar to Iron Man's, in order to take him and his suit, but failed. Anyway, the soldiers of the Ten Rings informed their leader, the Mandarin, they managed to scan the suit during the battle and take enough information that would help them against their revenge on Tony Stark.

Members

 * Mandarin (Leader)
 * Raza
 * Abu Bakar
 * Omar

Trivia

 * Jon Favreau has stated that the Ten Rings work for the The Mandarin. The name of the organization is a homage to Mandarin's ten magical rings in Marvel Comics.