How to Use mujahideen in a Sentence

mujahideen

plural noun

• In 1996, the group entered Kabul, forcing the mujahideen to flee the capital.
  — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2017
• This was a key tactic in allowing the Afghanistan mujahideen to defeat the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
  — James Stavridis, Time, 11 Apr. 2022
• Some members of these U.S.-backed militants – the mujahideen – later formed the Taliban.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 4 July 2020
• In the resulting chaos, the Taliban—founded by former mujahideen—rose to power.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
• That is when al-Qaeda, which had emerged out of the Afghan mujahideen’s 1980s jihad against the Soviets, re-established its headquarters in Afghanistan.
  — The Editors, National Review, 26 Aug. 2021
• Competing mujahideen factions were now trying to carve up the country for themselves.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• The war and mujahideen infighting gave the Taliban the perfect opportunity to emerge.
  — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2017
• That is a tactic the mujahideen adopted successfully against the Soviets, and later against the Taliban.
  — Edward Girardet, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2021
• The official drew a comparison to U.S. support for the anti-Soviet mujahideen fighting in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
• In recent years, Russia has fostered contacts with the Taliban, some of whom cut their teeth in the mujahideen, and which is designated a terrorist group in Russia.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
• During the Soviet war in Afghanistan, for example, the United States supplied the mujahideen with arms but did not send in any armed forces (other than intelligence agents).
  — John Yoo, National Review, 19 Mar. 2022
• Bin Laden and his cronies had fought alongside the Afghan mujahideen, who'd resisted the Soviet occupation after 1979.
  — Sam Kiley, CNN, 15 Aug. 2021
• In 1992, three years after Soviet withdrawal, the mujahideen took over Kabul.
  — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 28 June 2018
• Much of the early assistance to the mujahideen came in the form of small arms, such as rifles, with antiaircraft Stinger missiles arriving only after years of combat.
  — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
• An interim government was formed, but not all mujahideen leaders were supportive of it.
  — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 28 June 2018
• Zawahiri’s steadiness in rendering aid in the face of Soviet bombardment in Afghanistan cemented the doctor’s reputation among the mujahideen, as well as a lifelong friendship with bin Laden.
  — Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
• Charlie Wilson was a hard-partying, womanizing Texas congressman who helped arm the mujahideen against the invading Russians during the 1980s.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2021
• But internal power struggles soon led to a bloody civil war between different mujahideen factions.
  — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2017
• In response, America funded mujahideen rebels, escalating a bloody proxy war.
  — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
• Saudi clerics used to urge on Sunni mujahideen against the supposedly heretical Alawite clan ruling Syria with their Iranian allies.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• Operation Cyclone facilitated the training, arming, and empowering of the Afghan mujahideen—holy warriors—to fight the Soviet Union in the nineteen-eighties.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2021
• During the Reagan administration, the U.S. helped resistance fighters known as the mujahideen, sending them anti-aircraft missiles and other assistance.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 4 July 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024