Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun al-asifa
1 sense of al-asifa
Sense 1
al-Fatah, Fatah, al-Asifa -- (a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups; "al-Fatah carried out numerous acts of international terrorism in western Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s")
INSTANCE OF=> political movement -- (a group of people working together to achieve a political goal)
INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO -- (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)