Definition of "mujahedin" [mujahedin]

• A military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "MUJAHEDIN: Different groups of mujahedin - Muslim guerrilla fighters - were supported by among others the United States, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to fight against the USSR in Afghanistan"
• "MUJAHEDIN: Different groups of mujahedin - Muslim guerrilla fighters - were supported by among others the United States, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to fight against the USSR in Afghanistan (1979-89)."
• "He said infiltration was a common tactic of Afghan fighters known as the mujahedin who fought Soviet occupiers in the 1980s."