Afghan Arab fighters

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Afghan Arab fighters were foreign Islamist volunteers, mainly from Arab countries, who traveled to Afghanistan in the 1980s to join the jihad against the Soviet occupation and later became influential in transnational jihadist movements.

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Label	Occurrences
Afghan Arab fighters canonical	1
Arab foreign fighters in Afghanistan	1

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Defense of the Muslim Lands → associatedWith → Afghan Arab fighters ⓘ

Arabs of Afghanistan → distinguishedFrom → Arab foreign fighters in Afghanistan ⓘ

linked to: Afghan Arab fighters