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Type Words
Synonyms mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen
Type of military group, military unit, force, military force
Has types mujahedeen khalq


some call the mujahidin international warriors but others just call them terrorists.

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What about the group headed by former mujahidin commander Gulbuddin Hekmatyar?
From the globalspin.blogs.time.com
Thus far an estimated 30,000 mujahidin have been killed or wounded.
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Two were later dragged to a command post and dumped on the ground for mujahidin fighters to gawk at.
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Toll taxes on highways are being collected, but mostly by the mujahidin, who control many of the roads.
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Kunar's embattled mujahidin clearly are on the defensive.
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It took the Soviet army more than eight years to break through a mujahidin blockade of the road during its war here.
From the abcnews.go.com
Mujahidin forces from the north, and Bakhtiari tribesmen from the south, were joined by local supporters of the revolution.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The village of Mohammad Za'i, just six miles south of the capital, has been the scene of two successive mujahidin assaults.
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By Tuesday morning nearly all the Arabs had followed to higher ground, where they fired mortars and machine guns at the advancing mujahidin.
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Instead, Parliament and the administration of President Hamid Karzai granted a blanket amnesty to all mujahidin, further undermining confidence in a government-supported system of justice.
From the globalspin.blogs.time.com
The six-foot-tall mujahidin fighter who chose his own nickname is famed in Jalalabad for killing five Arab fighters who fled town a little too slowly when the Taliban fell.
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Across one ridge 20 mujahidin fighters scratched at the ground with sticks looking for fragments of U.S. bombs, which they loaded into a huge cooking pot and carried to a pickup truck.
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In both conflicts, to listen to the insurgents'propaganda, you would think they were God-fearing mujahidin engaged in a righteous struggle against unbelieving occupiers, the ihtilal of the salidi.
From the smallwarsjournal.com
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  • Mujahidin: a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad; "some call the mujahidin international warriors but others just call them terrorists"
  • Mujahideen (Arabic: u0627u0644u0645u062Cu0627u0647u062Fu064Au0646u200Eu200E) is the plural form of mujahid (Arabic: u0645u062Cu0627u0647u062Fu200Eu200E), the term for one engaged in Jihad. In English usage, it mostly referred to the guerrilla type military outfits led by the Muslim Afghan warriors in the Soviet war in Afghanistan, but now it often refers to other jihadist outfits in various countries.
  • Muslims who take up arms for a religious cause
  • Those who participate in Jehad (Islamic Holy War) "Soldiers of Islam ".
  • This word is derived from the word for jihad. One who performs jihad is a mujahid, the plural of which is mujahideen. These are people who defend themselves and their communities militarily when their ability to worship God has been denied them. ...
  • Muslims who take part in a Jihad. Singular: Mujahid. See Jihad.