Sentence examples for militant challenge from inspiring English sources

Its Salafi critics fall into two categories: the quietists who fear a militant challenge to the Al-Saud family's control of the kingdom and enjoin obedience to the ruler even if he is unjust, and reformists who reject IS's totalitarianism as contradicting a Salafist tradition that promotes freedom of expression and endorses opposition to authority.

Initially, US officials questioned whether the group had the capability to take down a large passenger aircraft, but in videos released Wednesday, the militants challenged the world to prove they didn't do it.

After the country's most powerful Islamic militant groups challenged the decision to side with the United States in Afghanistan and called on their followers to sign up for "holy war" against General Musharraf's government, the president arrested several powerful militant clerics, and announced that they would be tried for inciting armed insurrection.

Even though the twenty-first century Muslim communities, highly diverse in populations, have developed diverse forms of government, an idealized version of caliphate inspires Arab militants to challenge the kingdoms and other "non-Islamic" governments.

Experts said an assassination attempt on a member of the military's elite suggested that resurgent militants were challenging the Pakistani Army, which has ruled the country for most of its modern history.

Peshawar, where the Iranian official was seized, has long been regarded as tangled nexus of intrigue where, in the 1980s, the United States funded Islamist fighters opposed to Soviet forces Afghanistan, nurturing some of the same militants now challenging the American-led coalinion in Afghanistan.

The next attorney general will likely serve a two-year term and would take over counter-terror initiatives aimed at Islamic State militants and challenges balancing privacy rights against government surveillance efforts.

An article yesterday about militant Palestinian groups' challenge to claims by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell that Syria was cracking down on them misidentified the Syrian president in some copies.

Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-backed extremist militant group, often challenges the larger Hamas.

The Shia-dominated Baghdad government lacks the legitimacy and support to challenge militants for the hearts and minds of Sunni Arabs.

This fall, his group fielded fighters in the Swat Valley, the famous tourist spot, where the militants presented a challenge of new proportions to the government, seizing several districts and mounting battles against Pakistani forces that left scores dead.