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commandonoun	A small fighting force specially trained for making quick destructive raids against enemy-held areas.
guerrillanoun	A soldier in a small independent group, fighting against the government or regular forces by surprise raids.
martyrdomnoun	The condition of a martyr; the death or suffering of a martyr; the death or suffering on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause.
sacrificial	Relating to sacrifice.
suicidenoun	(uncountable) The act of intentionally killing oneself.
inghimasi	Inghimasi ("become immersed"), also called shahid ("martyr") and istishhadi ("martyrdom seeker"), are forlorn hope or suicide attack shock troops utilized by several Sunni jihadist groups, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, al-Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra, Tahrir al-Sham, Boko Haram, and al-Shabaab.
bosnian mujahideen	Bosnian mujahideen, also called El Mudžahid (mujāhid), were foreign Muslim volunteers who fought on the Bosnian Muslim side during the 1992–95 Bosnian War.
mujahideen in chechnya	The (Muzhakhady v Chechnye; ) foreign Islamist Mujahideen volunteers that fought in Chechnya and other parts of the North Caucasus.
arab liberation army	The Arab Liberation Army (ALA; Jaysh al-Inqadh al-Arabi), also translated as Arab Salvation Army or Arab Rescue Army, was an army of volunteers from Arab countries led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji.
afghan mujahideen	Islamist militant groups that fought against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War and the subsequent First Afghan Civil War.
jamaat ansar al-sunna	Jamaat Ansar al-Sunnah, also known as Jaish Ansar al-Sunna (Army of the Helpers of Sunnah), Ali ibn Abi Talib Battalion or simply as Ansar al-Sunnah was an Iraqi Sunni insurgent group that fought against US troops and their local allies during the Iraq War.
ba'ath brigades	The Ba'ath Brigades, also known as the Ba'ath Battalions, were a volunteer militia made up of Syrian Ba'ath Party members, almost entirely of Sunni Muslims from Syria and many Arab countries, loyal to the Syrian Government of Bashar al-Assad.
islamic army in iraq	an underground Islamist militant organization formed in Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S.-led Coalition forces, and the subsequent collapse of the Ba'athist regime headed by Saddam Hussein.
anti-gaddafi forces	The anti-Gaddafi forces, also known as the Libyan opposition or Libyan rebels, were Libyan groups that opposed and militarily defeated the government of Muammar Gaddafi during the First Libyan Civil War in 2011, killing him in the process.
jund al-aqsa	Jund al-Aqsa (Jund al-‘Aqṣā, "Soldiers of al-Aqsa"), later known as Liwa al-Aqsa after 7 February 2017, was a Salafist jihadist organization that was active during the Syrian Civil War.
ikhwannoun	The Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt in 1928.
free arabian legion	the collective name of several Nazi German units formed from Arab volunteers from the Middle East, notably Iraq, and North Africa during World War II.
sinai insurgency	an insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, launched by Islamist militants against Egyptian security forces, which also included attacks on civilians.
free iraqi army	The (Al-Jayš Al-‘Irāqī Al-Ḥurr, FIA) an Iraqi rebel group formed in the western Sunni-majority provinces of Iraq from Iraqi supporters of the Free Syrian Army rebels fighting in the Syrian Civil War.
islamic state of iraq	a Salafi jihadist militant organization that fought the forces of the U.S.-led coalition during the Iraqi insurgency.