Mujahideen
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Mujahideen or mujahidin, is the plural form of mujahid, an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in jihad, interpreted in a jurisprudence of Islam as the fight on behalf of God, religio
U.S. President Reagan meeting with Afghan mujahideen at the White House in 1983
Soviet–Afghan War
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The Soviet–Afghan War took place in Afghanistan from December 1979 to February 1989. Marking the beginning of the 47-year-long Afghan conflict, it saw the Soviet Union and the Communist-led Afghan mil
Mujahideen
…ummah). The widespread use of the word in English began with reference to the guerrilla-type militant groups led by the Islamist Afghan fighters in the Soviet–Afghan War (see Afghan mujahideen). The term now extends to other jihadist groups in various countries. In its roots, the Arabic word mujahideen refers to any…
Mujahideen fighters in Kunar Province, 1987
The Afghanistan–Pakistan border
Postage stamp from 1979 depicting the Arg, with the text reading "The Great Saur Revolution is the fruit of the class struggle"
Afghanistan Scout Association in the 1950s