mujahedin

or mu·ja·hed·din, mu·ja·hi·deen

[ moo-jah-he-deen ]

plural noun

, (sometimes initial capital letter)

1. Muslim guerrilla fighters, especially in Afghanistan and Iran.

Example Sentences

What was it Ronald Reagan called the Contras and the Afghan mujahedin?

From The Daily Beast

The mujahedin narrative was much more honest than that of the communists.

From The Daily Beast

In 1992 Dostum “defected” to the side of the mujahedin and joined in the battle to take Kabul and oust Najibullah.

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In Afghanistan in the 1980s there were no suicide bombers—the mujahedin then did not feel that was a heroic way to fight or die.

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Only some 50 or so CIA officers were ever engaged at one time in helping the mujahedin.

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