The term mujahideen has often been used to refer to all separatist fighters in the case of the First and Second Chechen Wars. In this article, it refers to the foreign, non-Caucasian fighters who joined the separatists' cause for the sake of Jihad.

The Afghan mujahideen (Pashto: افغان مجاهدين; Dari: مجاهدین افغان) were Islamist militant groups that fought against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War and the subsequent First Afghan Civil War.

Mujahideen, members of a number of guerrilla groups during the Afghan War (1978–92) that opposed the invading Soviet forces and eventually toppled the Afghan communist government. Rival factions thereafter fell out among themselves, …

Mujahideen, in its broadest sense, Muslims who fight on behalf of the faith or the community (ummah). The term became specialized after the emergence of Islamic revivalism in 18th-century India and was later adopted as a label for a coalition …

2019年9月16日 · In the context of Afghanistan during the late 20th century, the mujahideen were Islamic warriors defending their country from the Soviet Union, which invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and fought a bloody war there for a decade.

The Mujahideen Army is comprised almost exclusively of native Iraqi Sunni Muslims, including ex-members of Saddam Hussein's military and security agencies such as Fedayeen Saddam, Special Republican Guard, Republican Guard and the Special Security Organization.

2025年1月18日 · Afghan War (1978–92), internal conflict between the Afghan communist government, initially aided by Soviet troops, and anticommunist Islamic guerrillas known collectively as mujahideen. The government fell in 1992, but the coalition of mujahideen fragmented and continued to fight one another in the years that followed.

2024年5月16日 · Originating from local militias led by regionally operating warlords, the Mujahideen independently took up arms across Afghanistan to rebel against the Afghan government forces aided by the Soviets, motivated by factors such as …

Mujahidin (mojahidin) is the plural form of the Arabic term mujahid, who is a person who wages jihad. According to doctrinal and historical applications of Islamic law, jihad indicates military action for the defense or expansion of Islam.

5 天之前 · A loose coalition of mujahideen militias known as the Northern Alliance maintained control of a small section of northern Afghanistan. Fighters for the Northern Alliance, particularly those under the command of Ahmad Shah Massoud, remained the only major obstacle to …