Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun asbat_al-ansar

1 sense of asbat al-ansar

Sense 1
Asbat al-Ansar, Band of Partisans -- (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)
       INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO -- (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)