mujahideen
plural noun
mu·ja·hid·een
mü-ˌjä-hi-ˈdēn 
mu̇-,
-ˌja-
variants
or mujahedin
or less commonly mujahedeen
: Islamic guerrilla fighters especially in the Middle East
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The man currently balancing Sar Malam Sahib’s elbow was a former student of his from Logar, Adel Sahib, who had never finished high school (or passed any of Sar Malam Sahib’s history classes) but had managed to fight briefly for every mujahideen faction in Afghanistan.
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Jamil Jan Kochai, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
For its part, the United States worked with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Red Army in Afghanistan throughout the 1980s.
—Colin P. Clarke, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2024
While the wealthy Suraya is appointed head of the Women’s Organization of the communist party in power, Sima marries and gets involved with the mujahideen to defend Muslim values.
—Ed Meza, Variety, 2 Feb. 2024
Though only 14 when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and not especially political, Weisberg was outraged over the brutality and injustice of the war and saw the mujahideen (some factions of which would become the Taliban) as heroes.
—Laura Kipnis, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2023
Kurtzer noted that the mujahideen confronted the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and Hezbollah took on Israel in Lebanon.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, for example, the United States armed and financed the mujahideen resistance.
—Daniel Altman, Foreign Affairs, 12 July 2022
Pakistan has faced terror attacks from one group or another since the late 1990s, when local veterans of the U.S.-backed mujahideen in Afghanistan fighting the Soviet Union during the 1980s turned their attention to other issues and causes closer to home.
—Time, 1 Aug. 2023
The grueling, decade-long Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s became the miserable coda for the entire project of the U.S.S.R. — a quagmire, deepened by the supply of U.S. aid and weaponry to the Afghan mujahideen, that preceded the end of the Cold War.
—Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
Jamil Jan Kochai, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
For its part, the United States worked with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Red Army in Afghanistan throughout the 1980s.
—Colin P. Clarke, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2024
While the wealthy Suraya is appointed head of the Women’s Organization of the communist party in power, Sima marries and gets involved with the mujahideen to defend Muslim values.
—Ed Meza, Variety, 2 Feb. 2024
Though only 14 when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and not especially political, Weisberg was outraged over the brutality and injustice of the war and saw the mujahideen (some factions of which would become the Taliban) as heroes.
—Laura Kipnis, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2023
Kurtzer noted that the mujahideen confronted the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and Hezbollah took on Israel in Lebanon.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, for example, the United States armed and financed the mujahideen resistance.
—Daniel Altman, Foreign Affairs, 12 July 2022
Pakistan has faced terror attacks from one group or another since the late 1990s, when local veterans of the U.S.-backed mujahideen in Afghanistan fighting the Soviet Union during the 1980s turned their attention to other issues and causes closer to home.
—Time, 1 Aug. 2023
The grueling, decade-long Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s became the miserable coda for the entire project of the U.S.S.R. — a quagmire, deepened by the supply of U.S. aid and weaponry to the Afghan mujahideen, that preceded the end of the Cold War.
—Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2021
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mujahideen
noun plural
mu·ja·hid·een
variants
or mujahedin
: Islamic guerrilla fighters especially in the Middle East
Etymology
Arabic mujāhidīn "Islamic guerrilla fighters," plural form of mujahīd "a person who wages Islamic holy war"
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