Warfare (Jihad bil Saif) Jihad

mujahideen ansar dine fighting on of dshk

in late 20th , 21st centuries, names of many militant groups included word jihad  :

the international islamic front jihad against jews , crusaders: (osama bin laden s 1998 fatwa),
laskar jihad of indonesia,
palestinian islamic jihad movement,
egyptian islamic jihad,
yemeni islamic jihad.

some conflicts fought jihad since 1980s include:

rohingya insurgency in western myanmar (1947–present)
soviet–afghan war , afghan civil war (islamic unity of afghanistan mujahideen, 1979–1992)
iran–iraq war (1980–88, considered jihad islamic republic of iran)
kashmir conflict (lashkar-e-taiba, 1990–present)
algerian civil war (1991–2002)
somali civil war (al-shabaab, 1991–present)
internal conflict in bangladesh (1991–present)
moro conflict (abu sayyaf, 1991–present)
bosnian war (bosnian mujahideen, 1992–95)
afghan civil war (taliban, 1994–present)
insurgency in northeast india (multa, 1996)
xinjiang conflict (east turkestan islamic movement, 1997–present)
al-qaeda insurgency in yemen (al-qaeda in arabian peninsula, 1998–present)
chechen war , insurgency in north caucasus (arab mujahideen in chechnya, 1994–present)
nigerian sharia conflict (boko haram, 2001–present)
insurgency in maghreb (al-qaeda in islamic maghreb, 2002–present)
iraqi insurgency (islamic state of iraq, 2003–present)
south thailand insurgency (2004–present)
war in north-west pakistan (2004–present)
sistan , baluchestan insurgency (jundallah, 2004–present)
insurgency in balochistan (jundallah, 2004–present)
gaza–israel conflict (2006–present)
northern mali conflict (2011–present)
syrian civil war (al-nusra front, 2011–present)
factional violence in libya , libyan civil war (shura council of benghazi revolutionaries, 2011–present)
syrian civil war spillover in lebanon (2011–present)
insurgency in egypt , sinai insurgency (2011–present)
wave of terror in europe (islamic state of iraq , levant, 2014–present)
conflict in najran, jizan , asir (2015–present)
isil insurgency in tunisia (islamic state of iraq , levant, 2015–present)

fred donner states that, whether quran sanctions defensive warfare or whether commands waging of all-out war against non-muslims depends on interpretation of relevant passages. according albrecht noch, qur not explicitly state aims of war muslims obliged wage; rather passages concerning jihad aim promote fighters islamic cause , not discuss military ethics. however, according majority of jurists, qur anic casus belli (justifications war) restricted aggression against muslims, , fitna—persecution of muslims because of religious belief. hold unbelief in not justification war. these jurists therefore maintain combatants fought; noncombatants such women, children, clergy, aged, insane, farmers, serfs, blind, , on not killed in war. thus, hanafī ibn najīm states: reason jihād in our [the hanafīs] view kawnuhum harbā ‛alaynā [literally, being @ war against us]. hanafī jurists al-shaybānī , al-sarakhsī state although kufr [unbelief in god] 1 of greatest sins, between individual , god almighty , punishment sin postponed dār al-jazā’, (the abode of reckoning, hereafter).