How to Use mujahideen in a Sentence

mujahideen

plural noun
  • Competing mujahideen factions were now trying to carve up the country for themselves.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • An interim government was formed, but not all mujahideen leaders were supportive of it.
    — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 28 June 2018
  • In the resulting chaos, the Taliban—founded by former mujahideen—rose to power.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
  • But internal power struggles soon led to a bloody civil war between different mujahideen factions.
    — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2017
  • In 1996, the group entered Kabul, forcing the mujahideen to flee the capital.
    — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The war and mujahideen infighting gave the Taliban the perfect opportunity to emerge.
    — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 12 Sep. 2017
  • In response, America funded mujahideen rebels, escalating a bloody proxy war.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • This was a key tactic in allowing the Afghanistan mujahideen to defeat the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
    — James Stavridis, Time, 11 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • In 1992, three years after Soviet withdrawal, the mujahideen took over Kabul.
    — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 28 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, 2 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Though only 14 when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and not especially political, Weisberg was outraged over the brutality and injustice of the war and saw the mujahideen (some factions of which would become the Taliban) as heroes.
    — Laura Kipnis, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2023

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