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The Afghan mujahideen (Pashto: افغان مجاهدين, romanized: Afghān mujāhidīn) were Islamist resistance militias that fought the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War and the subsequent First Afghan Civil War.
- 1975–1992 (resistance phase), 1992–1996 (loyalist factions)
Sep 28, 2021 · The Rise of the Mujahideen. Afghan cinema became a dangerous affair as conflict escalated between the communist regime and the American-backed Mujahideen. 28 Sep 2021.
Redacted is a 2007 American war film written and directed by Brian De Palma. It is a fictional dramatization, loosely based on the 2006 Mahmudiyah killings in Mahmoudiyah, Iraq, when U.S. Army soldiers raped an Iraqi girl and murdered her along with her family.
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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 of guerrilla groups during the Afghan War (1978–92).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 23, 2024 · 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, precipitating the rise of one faction, the Taliban.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
“The mujahideen attacks were marked by savage cruelty,” noted military historian Viktor Vorontsov. The fight for Hill 3234 started around 15.30 on Jan. 7, 1988, and ended only in the middle of ...
Nov 11, 2021 · Rural Afghans formed militias called mujahideen and drove out the Soviets. But then they fell into a civil war with each other. Out of that chaos emerged a group of Islamic teachers and students...