Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun armed_islamic_group

1 sense of armed islamic group

Sense 1
Armed Islamic Group, GIA -- (a terrorist organization of Islamic extremists whose violent activities began in 1992; aims to overthrow the secular Algerian regime and replace it with an Islamic state; "the GIA has embarked on a terrorist campaign of civilian massacres")
       INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO -- (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)