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The Afghan mujahideen (Pashto: افغان مجاهدين; Dari: مجاهدین افغان) were Islamist resistance groups that fought against the Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War and the subsequent First Afghan Civil War. The term mujahid (from Arabic: مجاهدين) is used in a religious context by ...
v. t. e. Mujahideen, or Mujahidin (Arabic: مُجَاهِدِين, romanized: mujāhidīn), is the plural form of mujahid (Arabic: مُجَاهِد, romanized: mujāhid, lit. 'strugglers or strivers, doers of jihād'), an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in jihad (lit. 'struggle or striving [for justice, right conduct, Godly ...
The Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen, also known as the Seven Party Mujahideen Alliance, or Peshawar Seven[1] was an alliance formed in 1988 (see Alliance Formation below) by the seven Afghan mujahideen parties fighting against the Soviet -backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan forces in the Soviet–Afghan War. [2][3] The alliance ...
Mujahideen Army (Syria) The Mujahideen Army (Arabic: جيش المجاهدين, Jaysh al-Mujahideen) was a Sunni Islamist rebel group formed in order to fight the Syrian government and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the Syrian Civil War. [18] Originally a coalition of several Islamist rebel groups, it accused ISIL of ...
CIA -funded and ISI -trained Afghan mujahideen fighters crossing the Durand Line border to fight Soviet forces and the Soviet-backed Afghan government in 1985. The origins of al-Qaeda can be traced to the Soviet War in Afghanistan (December 1979 – February 1989). [ 2 ] The United States viewed the conflict in Afghanistan in terms of the Cold ...
Designated as a terrorist group by. India. European Union. Canada. United States. Hizbul Mujahideen, also spelled Hizb-ul-Mujahidin (Arabic: حزب المجاھدین, transl. 'Party of Holy Fighters'), [15] is a Pakistan -affiliated Islamist militant organisation that has been engaged in the Kashmir insurgency since 1989.
Al-Shabaab (militant group) Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (Arabic: حركة الشباب المجاهدين, romanized: Ḥarakat ash-Shabāb al-Mujāhidīn, lit. Youth Mujahideen Movement), commonly known as al-Shabaab, [note 2] is a transnational Salafi Jihadist [29][30] military and political organization based in Somalia and active ...
The mujahideen participated in the Iran-Iraq War, but at the end of the war in 1988, they mostly halted their operations, but maintained a low-level insurgency against Iraq. In the 1991 Iraqi uprisings during the Gulf War, the mujahideen heavily increased their activities, and towards the end of the war, they slowed down again. They had over ...