mujahedin
Americanplural noun
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Saqizada’s father Mohammad, also a rubab player, had fled Kabul with the family to Pakistan’s Peshawar in 1992, when the mujahedin, Islamist Afghan guerrilla factions, toppled the Soviet-backed communist government.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2021
LIFG’s leader, Abdelhakim Belhaj, had been among those veterans, fighting against the Soviet-backed government in Afghanistan in the 1980’s alongside local mujahedin armed and trained by the CIA.
From Salon • May 27, 2017
Only a year after his triumphant return from space, the Russians had withdrawn from Afghanistan, he had been appointed deputy civil aviation minister and the mujahedin were closing in on Kabul.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2014
The more radical we looked and talked, the more we were called mujahedin.
From Newsweek • Jun. 10, 2013
The Soviet Union invaded in 1979 to support the tottering Afghan Communist regime, but withdrew 10 years later under relentless pressure by internationally supported anti-Communist mujahedin rebels.
From The 2006 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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