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Bookmark or Share- Operation Cyclone - WikipediaOperation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992, prior to and during the military intervention by the USSR in support of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
- Who Were the Mujahideen of Afghanistan? - ThoughtCoIn the 1970s, a new group of fighters arose in Afghanistan. They called themselves mujahideen (sometimes spelled mujahidin), a word applied initially to Afghan fighters who opposed the push of the British Raj into Afghanistan in the 19th century. But who were these 20th-century mujahideen?
- Afghan mujahideen - WikipediaThe term mujahid (from Arabic: مجاهدين) is used in a religious context by Muslims to refer to those engaged in a struggle of any nature for the sake of Islam, commonly referred to as jihad (جهاد).
- Afghan War | History, Casualties, Dates, & Facts | BritannicaAfghan 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.
- Mujahideen - WikipediaThe term mujahideen has often been used to refer to all separatist fighters in the case of the First and Second Chechen Wars. However, in this article, mujahideen is used to refer to the foreign, non- Caucasian fighters who joined the separatists' cause for the sake of Jihad.
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