Islamist

Examples of Islamist in the following topics:

• The War on Terrorism

  • It was typically used with a particular focus on Al-Qaeda and other militant Islamists.
  • The United States supported the Islamist mujahadeen guerillas against the military forces of the Soviet Union and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
  • In May 1996 the group World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders (WIFJAJC), sponsored by Osama bin Laden and later reformed as al-Qaeda, started forming a large base of operations in Afghanistan, where the Islamist extremist regime of the Taliban had seized power that same year.

• The War on Terror

  • In May 1996 the group World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders (WIFJAJC), sponsored by Osama bin Laden and later reformed as al-Qaeda, started forming a large base of operations in Afghanistan, where the Islamist extremist regime of the Taliban had seized power that same year.
  • Many insurgency leaders were Islamists who claimed to be fighting a religious war to reestablish the Islamic Caliphate of centuries past.

• Policy in the Middle East

  • In June 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a radical Islamist militant group consisting of mostly Sunni Muslims and once affiliated with al-Qaeda, launched a military offensive in Northern Iraq and seized control of Sunni-dominated areas of Iraq and Syria.
  • Osama bin Laden, the founder and head of the Islamist group al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S.

• September 11th and the War on Terror

  • On that Tuesday morning, 19 members of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets.