WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

al-Asifa
    n 1: a Palestinian political and military organization founded
         by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a
         Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained
         terrorist and insurgent groups; "al-Fatah carried out
         numerous acts of international terrorism in western Europe
         and the Middle East in the 1970s" [syn: al-Fatah,
         Fatah, al-Asifa]