ANSAR AL-ISLAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ansar al-Islam mean? 

• ANSAR AL-ISLAM (noun)
  The noun ANSAR AL-ISLAM has 1 sense:

1. a radical Islamic group of terrorists in the Iraqi part of Kurdistan who oppose an independent secular nation as advocated by the United States; some members fought with the Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan; said to receive financial support from Saddam Hussein

  Familiarity information: ANSAR AL-ISLAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANSAR AL-ISLAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A radical Islamic group of terrorists in the Iraqi part of Kurdistan who oppose an independent secular nation as advocated by the United States; some members fought with the Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan; said to receive financial support from Saddam Hussein

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Ansar al-Islam; Ansar al Islam; Supporters of Islam

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Al-Iraq; Irak; Iraq; Republic of Iraq (a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq)