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 mujahideen who took over after the… Afghanistan Unbound
Two and a half years after the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan is once more lapsing into bloody chaos.
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Kathy Gannon, Foreign Affairs, 9 July 2024
Made in 2007, the film foreshadows the eventual blowback of the U.S. support of the mujahideen.
—Keith Staskiewicz, EW.com, 26 June 2024
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.
—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
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Kathy Gannon, Foreign Affairs, 9 July 2024
Made in 2007, the film foreshadows the eventual blowback of the U.S. support of the mujahideen.
—Keith Staskiewicz, EW.com, 26 June 2024
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.
—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
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“Mujahideen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mujahideen. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
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mujahideen
plural noun
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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