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conducted assassination campaigns and called its assassins "fedai", which originated from "feda," deriving from the first letters of "filiyas elenikis desmos anton" meaning "this is the tie of Greek friendship". However, "feda" also means sacrifice in Turkish, representing the term's evolution which
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During this time (1948 – c. 1980), the word entered international usage and was frequently used in the Arab media as a synonym for great militancy. In the Israeli Hebrew press of this time the term (
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forces had established numerous military outposts around the canal zone, which many Egyptians viewed as a violation of their national sovereignty. This opposition was not supported by the
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civilians who voluntarily left their families to form self-defense units in reaction to the mass murder of Armenians and the pillage of Armenian villages by criminals,
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At the onset of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenians of Artsakh began forming small detachments of volunteers and often self-described themselves as
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occupied the building; after an extensive cataloging process, an operation was conducted in Baghdad resulting in several individuals being detained.
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and enemies of Islam. After several successful assassinations it was suppressed in 1956 and several leading members were executed.
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in 1946 for the purpose of demanding strict application of the sharia and assassinating those it believed to be
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term used to refer to various military groups willing to sacrifice themselves for a larger campaign.
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between the 19th and early 20th centuries. Their ultimate goal was to gain Armenian autonomy (
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Haya Regev, Dr. Avigail Oren, The operations in the 1950s, University of Tel Aviv, 1995
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in 1955, the Palestinian fedayeen were incorporated into an Egyptian army unit.
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in order to strike military as well as civilian targets in the aftermath of the
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In 1951 "mobs of "irregular self-sacrificers, or fedayeen", some "armed by the
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The term has also been used to refer to members of the Armenian militant group
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came to represent those who swore allegiance to CUP. Within the context of
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who would enforce the Central Committee's regime were also known as
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A demolished Israeli farmhouse, after a fedayeen attack (1956).
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Known by the same name, they operated inside the capital city,
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groups held broad support among the general public in Egypt.
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that commenced during the same period, upon agreement of the
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Two very different groups used the name Fedayeen in recent
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are militants of a nationalist orientation from among the
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During the 1940s, groups of Egyptian civilians formed
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Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian (Majority)
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