Middle East Terrorism

A group of fundamentalist Muslims who politically controlled Afghanistan, the _____________ was heavily funded by Osama bin Laden and drug sales from the Golden Triangle.

• Taliban

• Abu Sayyaf

• Houthis

• Lashkar-e-Taiba

Islamist terrorist organization ______________launched a series of attacks against U.S. and was responsible for 9/11; currently, the organization has affiliates throughout the Middle East.

• Al-Qaeda

• Islamic State

• Muslim Brotherhood

• Hezbollah

A terrorist group trying to seize territory in Iraq and Syria through extreme acts of terrorism, ______________ is one of the most dangerous and active terror cells and the major concern of the United States.

• ISIS

• PLO

• Muslim Brotherhood

• Hamas

A Palestinian Islamic Terrorist movement ________________ has gained political control of the Gaza Strip and primarily functions to create a Palestinian state independent from Israel.

• Hamas

• Fatah

• Hezbollah

• Kurdish Resistance

A radical Shi'ite Muslim Terrorism movement in Lebanon ___________________ has been warring with Israel and involved itself in several nation's war to establish Shia law; the organization has also been in direct conflict with ISIS.

• Hezbollah

• Hamas

• Ansar al-Sharia

• Lashkar-e-Taiba

What Al-Qaeda affiliate originating from Libya has become involved in the Yemen Civil War and along with ISIS controls large areas of the nation?

• Ansar al-Sharia

• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

• Boko Haram

• Taliban

What Islamic term indirectly meaning "holy war" is often associated with terrorists?

• jihad

• fatah

• zakat

• hajj