al-qaeda

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A worldwide network of militant Sunni Islamic organizations and individuals.

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noun

A worldwide network of militant Sunni Islamic organizations and individuals.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for al-qaeda.

noun

A worldwide network of militant Sunni Islamic organizations and individuals.

Example sentences

Sure, because that schoolboy flipping off the officer was obviously a punk gangster Al-Qaeda sleeper agent suicide bomber.

The branding has switched to Isis now that al-Qaeda has kind of fallen apart.

With regard to al-Qaeda specifically, the Yemeni branch has always been quite distinct.

When Al-Qaeda in Iraq blows up oil pipeline, is that not terrorism?

I hate to say this, and I don't think it's justified, but that's the kind of stuff al-qaeda would fight against.

Indeed, a huge missed opportunity for al-Qaeda.

I really don't think there exists an international terrorist al-Qaeda at this point (at least not in the sense we imagine, with a Cobra Commander in some hollow island).

Quote examples

"JN" here stands for "Jabhat al-Nusra", an al-Qaeda-affiliated organization operating in Syria.

Certainly, the US war with al-Qaeda, the US invasion of Iraq, and the Syrian civil war each provided opportunities which it exploited in its growth, but none of them -- and certainly not the last of those -- can be credited with having "brought us" the organization.