They are Mujahedeen when serving the US strategy but the US rename them as terrorists when they don’t serve the US strategy. In Syria ISIS was renamed as Daesh. The CIA supplied Bin Laden with Stinger missiles. The CIA overtrained Bin Laden in “Operation Cyclone”. Bin Laden was overtrained by the CIA. He allegedly outsmarted the CIA and attacked America on 9/11 with box cutters instead of using Stinger missiles.
Al Qaeda is short for data base in Arabic. It is the data base of all the Mujahedeen and the donors who funded them, mostly Saudi