ASBAT AL-ANSAR

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

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

1. an extremist Palestinian Sunni group active in Lebanon in the early 1990s that advocates Salafism; responsible for murders and bombings; seeks to overthrow the Lebanese government and control Palestinian refugee camps; funded by al-Qaeda

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASBAT AL-ANSAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An extremist Palestinian Sunni group active in Lebanon in the early 1990s that advocates Salafism; responsible for murders and bombings; seeks to overthrow the Lebanese government and control Palestinian refugee camps; funded by al-Qaeda

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Asbat al-Ansar; Band of Partisans

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:

Lebanese Republic; Lebanon (an Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean)