Hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814

Date: December 24, 1999 • Location: New Delhi, India

Jihadists linked to al-Qaeda hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 to force the release of Islamist figures held in prison in India.

Jihadism is the ideology of modern, armed militant Islamic movements that seek to establish states based on Islamic principles. In a narrower sense, it refers to the idea that armed confrontation is an efficient and theologically legitimate method of sociopolitical change towards an Islamic system of governance. The term "jihadism" has been applied to various Islamic extremist and/or Islamist individuals and organizations with militant ideologies based on the classical Islamic notion of lesser jihad.