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List of active rebel groups

Index List of active rebel groups

This is a list of active rebel factions around the world whose domains may be subnational, transnational or international. [1]

431 relations: Abdullah Azzam Brigades, Abdullah Öcalan, Abu Nidal Organization, Abu Sayyaf, Aden, Aden-Abyan Islamic Army, Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front, Ahrar al-Sham, Al Furqan Brigades, Al Jazeera, Al-Anfal Brigade, Al-Khansaa Brigade, Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Al-Rahman Legion, Al-Shabaab (militant group), Aleppo Governorate, Aleppo Revolutionary Council, All Burma Students' Democratic Front, Alliance of Revolutionary Forces of West Sudan, Alliance of Southern Forces, Alliance of Yemeni Tribes, Allied Democratic Forces, Allied Democratic Forces insurgency, Anarchism, Anarcho-communism, Andhra Pradesh, Ansar al-Sharia (Egypt), Ansar al-Sharia (Libya), Ansar al-Sharia (Mali), Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia), Ansar al-Sharia (Yemen), Ansar al-Sunna (Mozambique), Ansar Dine, Ansar Khalifa Philippines, Ansar ul Islam, Ansaru, Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya, Arab nationalism, Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz, Arakan Army (Kachin State), Arakan Liberation Army, Armed Peasant Association, Army of Free Tribes, Army of Islam (Gaza Strip), Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order, Asayish (DFNS regions), ..., Authenticity and Development Front, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, Baloch nationalism, Baloch Republican Army, Balochistan Liberation Army, Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, Barisan Revolusi Nasional, Basha'ir al-Nasr Brigade, BBC News, Beja Congress, Bentiu, Bihar, Black Star (anarchist group), Blue Nile, Boko Haram, Brigade 93, Bundu dia Kongo, Caucasus Emirate, Central African Republic Civil War (2012–2014), Chhattisgarh, Chiapas, Chiapas conflict, Chin National Front, Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War, Civil Protection Units, Comité Régional d'Action Viticole, Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist, Communist Party of India (Maoist), Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist), Communist Party of the Philippines, Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist, Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (Maoist Party Centre), Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, Continuity Irish Republican Army, Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace, Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco, Corsican nationalism, Damascus Military Council, Daraa Military Council, Dawn of Freedom Brigades, Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, Democratic Front for Eritrean Unity, Democratic Front of the Central African People, Democratic Movement for the Liberation of the Eritrean Kunama, Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Democratic socialism, Devrimci Karargâh, DKBA-5, Dokumacılar, Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Donetsk People's Republic, Eastern Front (Sudan), Eastern Ukraine, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Ethiopian People's Patriotic Front, Ethnic group, Euphrates, Falcons of al-Ghab, Farouq Brigades, Fastaqim Union, February 17th Martyrs Brigade, Fedayeen al-Islam, Fidai Mahaz, First Army (Syrian rebel group), First Corps (Syrian rebel group), Forces for Renewal, Forces of Martyr Ahmad al-Abdo, Free Aceh Movement, Free Papua Movement, Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade, Free Syrian Army, Free Women's Units, Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda, General Military Council for Iraqi Revolutionaries, General National Congress, Gerakan Mujahidin Islam Patani, Government of Colombia, Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front, Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance, Hamas, Hamza Division (Daraa), Haqqani network, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Hasm Movement, Hawks of the South, Hazzm Movement, Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin, Hezbollah, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Hizbul Mujahideen, Houthis, Hoxhaism, Idlib, Idlib Governorate, Idlib Martyrs' Brigade, Idlib Military Council, Indian Mujahideen, Indigenous Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Pacific, Indigenous rights, Informal Anarchist Federation, Internal conflict in Myanmar, International Sikh Youth Federation, Iran Liberation Front, Iraqi Civil War (2014–present), Irish Republican Liberation Army, Islamic Army in Iraq, Islamic Front (Syria), Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia, Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, Islamic Jihad of Yemen, Islamic Jihad Union, Islamic Liberation Front of Patani, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Islamic Party of Kurdistan, Islamic State in Somalia, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Algeria Province, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Caucasus Province, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Sinai Province, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Yemen Province, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Libya, Islamism, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Jabhat al-Akrad, Jabhat Ghuraba al-Sham, Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah, Jaish ul-Adl, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Jamaah Ansharut Daulah, Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Jarabulus, Jarabulus Company, Jaysh al-Ababil, Jaysh al-Islam, Jaysh al-Ummah, Jemaah Islamiyah, Jharkhand, Jundallah (Iran), Jundallah (Pakistan), Justice and Equality Movement, Kachin conflict, Kachin Independence Army, Kachin Independence Organisation, Kachin State, Kaga-Bandoro, Karen National Union, Karenni Army, Kataib al-Khoul, Khalistan Commando Force, Khalistan Zindabad Force, Khorasan group, Kidal, Kivu conflict, Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, Kurdish nationalism, Kurdistan Communities Union, Kurdistan Free Life Party, Kurdistan Freedom Hawks, Kurdistan Freedom Party, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Laiza, Lashkar-e-Islam, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Lashkar-e-Omar, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Left-wing politics, Levant Front, Liberation and Justice Movement, Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room, Libya Shield 1, Libya Shield Force, Lions of Sunna Brigade, Lions of the East Army, List of designated terrorist groups, List of guerrilla movements, List of left-wing rebel groups, List of ongoing armed conflicts, List of sovereign states, List of states with limited recognition, Lists of active separatist movements, Liwa Ahrar Souriya, Liwa Thuwar al-Raqqa, Lord's Resistance Army, Los Angeles Times, Luhansk, Luhansk Oblast, Luhansk People's Republic, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Mai-Mai, Mai-Mai Kata Katanga, Maoism, Maoist Communist Party (Turkey), Maoist Communist Party of Manipur, Martyrs of Islam Brigade, Marxism, Marxist–Leninist Armed Propaganda Unit, Marxist–Leninist Communist Party (Turkey), Military activity of ISIL, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Moro National Liberation Front, Mountain Hawks Brigade, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance, Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem, Mujahidin Indonesia Timur, Mullah Dadullah Front, Najran, National Army for the Liberation of Uganda, National Democratic Front of the Philippines, National Forces of Liberation, National Front for the Liberation of Syria, National Liberation Army (Colombia), National Liberation Front of Corsica, National Movement for Reform and Development, National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, National Redemption Front, National Socialist Council of Nagaland, Nationalism, Nationalist and Integrationist Front, Naxalite, Naxalite–Maoist insurgency, New People's Army, New York City, Niger Delta Avengers, Niger Delta Liberation Front, Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force, Niger Delta Vigilante, Ninja (militia), North Waziristan, North Yemen, Northern Division (Syrian rebel group), Northern Mali conflict, Nuer White Army, Odisha, Ogaden National Liberation Front, Omari Brigades, Orange Volunteers, Oromo Liberation Front, Pa-O National Liberation Army, Palaung State Liberation Front, Pangkham, Paraguayan People's Army, Patani United Liberation Organisation, Patriotic Convention for Saving the Country, Patriotic Resistance Front of Ituri, People's Defence Forces, People's Mujahedin of Iran, People's Protection Units, Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement, Popular Fighters Group, Popular Front for Justice in the Congo, Popular Front for Recovery, Popular Liberation Army, Popular Resistance Committees, Popular Revolutionary Army, Qamishli, Quetta, Quneitra Military Council, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Rafallah al-Sahati Brigade, Rajah Sulaiman Movement, Rashaida Free Lions, Real Irish Republican Army, Real Ulster Freedom Fighters, Red corridor, Red Hand Defenders, Red Sea Afar Democratic Organisation, RENAMO, Republic of Logone, Republic of South Maluku, Resistencia Ancestral Mapuche, Retribution Army, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Revolutionary Army (Syria), Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front, Revolutionary socialism, Revolutionary Struggle, Revolutionary Workers' Party (Philippines), Right-wing paramilitarism in Colombia, Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs, Runda Kumpulan Kecil, Sa'dah, Saho People's Democratic Movement, Salafi jihadism, Sana'a, Saraya Ahl al-Sham, Séléka, Sect of Revolutionaries, Shammar, Shan State Army - North, Shan State Army - South, Shariat Jamaat, Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade, Shining Path, Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries, Sidama Liberation Front, Sindhudesh Liberation Army, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, Soldiers of Egypt, Somali Civil War (2009–present), South Kordofan, South Sudan Democratic Movement, South Sudan Liberation Movement, South Sudanese Civil War, Southern Front (Syrian rebel group), Southern Movement, Sovereign state, Students Islamic Movement of India, Sudan, Sudan Liberation Movement/Army, Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition, Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, Sudan Revolutionary Front, Sudanese Awakening Revolutionary Council, Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile, Sultanate of Sulu, Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation, Supreme Military Council (Syria), Supreme Political Council, Sutoro, Sword of al-Sham Brigades, Syriac Military Council, Syrian Civil War, Syrian Interim Government, Syrian Martyrs' Brigades, Syrian opposition, Syrian Revolutionaries Front, Syrian Turkmen Brigades, Taliban, TASS, Tawhid Kata’ib Horan, Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Telangana, The Black Eagles, Toubou Front for the Salvation of Libya, Turkish Hezbollah, Turkish Islamic Jihad, Turkistan Islamic Party, Union of Congolese Patriots, Union of Democratic Forces for Unity, United Jihad Council, United Liberation Front of Assam, United Nationalities Federal Council, United Nations, United States Department of State, United Vilayat of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachay, United Wa State Army, United Wa State Party, Unity State, USA Today, Uttar Pradesh, Vilayat Galgaycho, Vilayat Nokhchicho, Violent non-state actor, W. W. Norton & Company, Wa National Organisation, Wa Self-Administered Division, War, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), War in Donbass, War in North-West Pakistan, West Bengal, Women's Protection Units, Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, YDG-H, Yemeni Civil War (2015–present), Youth of Sunna Forces, Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Zintan Brigades, 13th Division (Syrian rebel group), 18 March Division, 1st Coastal Division, 21st Combined Force (Syrian rebel group). Expand index (381 more) »

Abdullah Azzam Brigades

The Abdullah Azzam Brigades, or al-Qaeda in Lebanon, (كتائب عبد الله عزام) is a Sunni Islamist militant group, and the al-Qaeda's branch in Lebanon.

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Abdullah Öcalan

Abdullah Öcalan (born about 1947), also known as Apo (short for both Abdullah and "uncle" in Kurdish), is a Kurdish nationalist leader and one of the founding members of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

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Abu Nidal Organization

The Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) is the most common name for the Palestinian militant group Fatah – The Revolutionary Council (Fatah al-Majles al-Thawry).

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Abu Sayyaf

Abu Sayyaf (جماعة أبو سياف;, ASG; Grupong Abu Sayyaf), unofficially known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Philippines Province, is a Jihadist militant and pirate group that follows the Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam based in and around Jolo and Basilan islands in the southwestern part of the Philippines, where for more than four decades, Moro groups have been engaged in an insurgency for an independent province in the country.

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Aden

Aden (عدن Yemeni) is a port city in Yemen, located by the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some east of Bab-el-Mandeb.

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Aden-Abyan Islamic Army

The Aden-Abyan Islamic Army (جيش عدن أبين الإسلامي) is an Islamist militant group based in southern Yemen, led by Zein al-Abideen al-Mehdar (also known as Abu El-Hassan El-Mohader).

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Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front

The Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (የአፋር አብዮታዊ ዴሞክራሲያዊ አንድነት ግንባር; abbreviated ARDUF) is an Afar political party in Ethiopia that was founded in 1993 and is currently part of the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF) coalition opposition party.

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Ahrar al-Sham

Harakat Ahrar al-Sham al-Islamiyya (lit), commonly referred to as Ahrar al-Sham, is a coalition of multiple Islamist and Salafist units that coalesced into a single brigade and later a division in order to fight against the Syrian Government led by Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian Civil War.

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Al Furqan Brigades

The Al Furqan Brigades are a militant group that has been active throughout Egypt.

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Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera (translit,, literally "The Island", though referring to the Arabian Peninsula in context), also known as JSC (Jazeera Satellite Channel), is a state-funded broadcaster in Doha, Qatar, owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network.

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Al-Anfal Brigade

The Al-Anfal Brigade was a Syrian rebel group affiliated with the Syria Revolutionaries Front coalition.

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Al-Khansaa Brigade

The Al-Khansaa Brigade (لواء الخنساء) is an all-women police or religious enforcement unit of the extremist self-proclaimed jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), operating in its de facto capital of Raqqa and Mosul.

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Al-Nusra Front

Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra (جبهة النصرة.), known as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (جبهة فتح الشام, transliteration: Jabhat Fataḥ al-Šām) after July 2016, and also described as al-Qaeda in Syria or al-Qaeda in the Levant, was a Salafist jihadist organization fighting against Syrian government forces in the Syrian Civil War.

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Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda (القاعدة,, translation: "The Base", "The Foundation" or "The Fundament" and alternatively spelled al-Qaida, al-Qæda and sometimes al-Qa'ida) is a militant Sunni Islamist multi-national organization founded in 1988.

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Al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula

Al-Qaeda (Arabic: al-Qāᶜidah, "the Base") in the Sinai Peninsula, or AQSP, is an Egyptian militant jihadist organization possibly formed by a merger between al-Qaeda operatives in Sinai and Ansar al Jihad.

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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (lit or, Tanẓīm Qā‘idat al-Jihād fī Jazīrat al-‘Arab, "Organization of Jihad's Base in the Arabian Peninsula"), or AQAP, also known as Ansar al-Sharia in Yemen (جماعة أنصار الشريعة, Jamā‘at Anṣār ash-Sharī‘ah, "Group of the Helpers of the Sharia"), is a militant Islamist organization, primarily active in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

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Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Tanẓīm al-Qā‘idah fī Bilād al-Maghrib al-Islāmī), or AQIM, is an Islamist militant organization (of al-Qaeda) which aims to overthrow the Algerian government and institute an Islamic state.

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Al-Rahman Legion

The al-Rahman Legion (فيلق الرحمن, Faylaq al-Raḥmān), also called the al-Rahman Corps, is a Syrian rebel group affiliated with the Free Syrian Army that operated in Eastern Ghouta, in the outskirts of Damascus, but also in the eastern Qalamoun Mountains.

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Al-Shabaab (militant group)

Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (HSM; حركة الشباب المجاهدين,; Xarakada Mujaahidiinta Alshabaab, lit. "Mujahideen Youth Movement" or "Movement of Striving Youth"), more commonly known as al-Shabaab (lit), is a jihadist fundamentalist group based in East Africa.

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Aleppo Governorate

Aleppo Governorate (محافظة حلب / ALA-LC: Muḥāfaẓat Ḥalab /) is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria.

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Aleppo Revolutionary Council

The Aleppo Revolutionary Council (المجلس الثوري لحلب; Majlis Thuwar Halab), also called the Council of Aleppo Rebels, was a rebel group affiliated with the Free Syrian Army active in the Aleppo Governorate.

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All Burma Students' Democratic Front

The All Burma Students' Democratic Front (မြန်မာနိုင်ငံလုံးဆိုင်ရာကျောင်းသားများဒီမိုကရက်တစ်တပ်ဦး; abbreviated ABSDF) is an opposition group in Myanmar (also known as Burma).

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Alliance of Revolutionary Forces of West Sudan

The Alliance of Revolutionary Forces of West Sudan was formed on January 20, 2006, when the Justice and Equality Movement and the Sudan Liberation Movement merged to form a single rebel alliance in the Sudanese region of Darfur.

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Alliance of Southern Forces

The Alliance of Southern Forces is a Syrian rebel coalition consisting of 8 rebel factions from the Free Syrian Army's Southern Front.

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Alliance of Yemeni Tribes

The Alliance of Yemeni Tribes, sometimes referred to as the Yemeni Tribes' Alliance, was an alliance of tribes in Yemen opposed to the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

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Allied Democratic Forces

The Allied Democratic Forces (Forces démocratiques alliées; abbreviated ADF) is a rebel group in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and is considered a terrorist organisation by the Ugandan government.

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Allied Democratic Forces insurgency

The Allied Democratic Forces insurgency refers to the ongoing conflict waged by the Allied Democratic Forces in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, against the governments of those two countries.

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Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions.

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Anarcho-communism

Anarcho-communism (also known as anarchist communism, free communism, libertarian communism and communist anarchism) is a theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, capitalism, wage labour and private property (while retaining respect for personal property) in favor of common ownership of the means of production, direct democracy and a horizontal network of workers' councils with production and consumption based on the guiding principle: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".

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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh is one of the 29 states of India.

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Ansar al-Sharia (Egypt)

al-Taliah al-Salafiyah al-Mujahediyah Ansar al-Sharia (English: Fighting Salafist Vanguard - Partisans of Islamic Law), better known by the name Ansar al-Sharia (Egypt), is a radical Islamist group that operates in Egypt.

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Ansar al-Sharia (Libya)

Ansar al-Sharia in Libya (ASL, أنصار الشريعة بليبيا, English: Supporters of Islamic Law) was a Salafist Islamist militia group that advocated the implementation of strict Sharia law across Libya.

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Ansar al-Sharia (Mali)

Ansar al-Sharia (Mali) (Partisans of Islamic Law) is a radical Islamist group that operates in the Azawad region of Mali.

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Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia)

Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia ("Supporters of Islamic Law in Tunisia") is a radical Islamist group that operates in Tunisia.

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Ansar al-Sharia (Yemen)

Jama'at Ansar al-Shari'a (جماعة أنصار الشريعة), also known as Ansar al-Shari'a, is a Yemen-based umbrella organization which includes units from several militant Islamic groups of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

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Ansar al-Sunna (Mozambique)

Ansar al-Sunna (Supporters of tradition), also known by locals as Ansar al-Sharia, is an Islamist militant group active in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique.

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Ansar Dine

Ansar Dine (أنصار الدين ʾAnṣār ad-Dīn, also transliterated Ançar Deen; meaning "helpers of the (Islamic) religion" or "defenders of the faith") also known as Ansar al-Din (abbreviated as AAD) is a militant Islamist group led by Iyad Ag Ghaly, one of the most prominent leaders of the Tuareg Rebellion (1990–1995) who is suspected of having ties to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which is led by his cousin Hamada Ag Hama.

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Ansar Khalifa Philippines

Ansar Khalifa Philippines, also referred to as Ansar al-Khilafah in the Philippines and Ansarul Khilafah Philippines ("Supporters of the Caliphate in the Philippines") is a Philippine-based militant group that emerged in August 2014 when it released a video pledging allegiance to ISIS.

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Ansar ul Islam

Ansar ul Islam is a militant Islamist group active in Burkina Faso and in Mali.

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Ansaru

Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Lands (جماعة أنصار المسلمين في بلاد السودان), better known as Ansaru or Al Qaeda in the Lands Beyond the Sahel, is an Islamist jihadist militant organisation based in the northeast of Nigeria.

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Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya

The Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya (المجاهدين العرب في الشيشان, Al-Mujahidin Al-'Arab fi Al-Shishan; Арабские моджахеды в Чечне, Arabskiye Muzhakhady v Chechnye) was an international unit of terrorist Islamist Mujahideen that fought in Chechnya and other parts of the North Caucasus.

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Arab nationalism

Arab nationalism (القومية العربية al-Qawmiyya al-`arabiyya) is a nationalist ideology that asserts the Arabs are a nation and promotes the unity of Arab people, celebrating the glories of Arab civilization, the language and literature of the Arabs, calling for rejuvenation and political union in the Arab world.

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Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz

The Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz (حركة النضال العربي لتحرير الأحواز; abbreviated ASMLA) is an Arab nationalist insurgent group that advocates for a separate Arab state in Khuzestan Province from Iran.

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Arakan Army (Kachin State)

The Arakan Army (ရက္ခိုင့်တပ်မတော်; abbreviated AA) is a Rakhine insurgent group in Myanmar (Burma), founded on 10 April 2009.

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Arakan Liberation Army

The Arakan Liberation Army (ရခိုင်ပြည် လွတ်မြောက်ရေး တပ်မတော်; abbreviated ALA) is a Rakhine insurgent group in Myanmar (Burma).

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Armed Peasant Association

The Armed Peasant Association (Agrupación Campesina Armada, short ACA, less commonly Armed Campesino Group) was a leftist rebel group that took part in the insurgency in Paraguay between 2014 and 2016.

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Army of Free Tribes

The Army of Free Tribes (جيش احرار العشائر, Jaysh Ahrar al-Ashayer), previously called the Southern Command and the Collective of Free Southern Tribesmen, is a Syrian rebel coalition affiliated with the Free Syrian Army and was headed by brigadier general Ibrahim Fahad Al Naimi.

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Army of Islam (Gaza Strip)

Army of Islam (جَيش الإسلام Jaysh al-Islām) is the name used by the Doghmush Hamula (clan) for their Islamic militant activities.

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Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order

The Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order (جيش رجال الطريقة النقشبندية Jaysh Rijāl aṭ-Ṭarīqa an-Naqshabandiya), also called the Naqshbandi Army, is one of a number of underground Ba'athist and Sufi militant insurgency groups in Iraq.

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Asayish (DFNS regions)

The Asayîş or Asayish (الأسايش, ܐܣܐܝܝܫ, Kurdish for Security) is the police force of the autonomous cantons within the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria.

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Authenticity and Development Front

The Authenticity and Development Front (جبهة الأصالة والتنمية; Jabhat al-Aisalat wal-Tanmia) is a Saudi Arabia-backed alliance of rebel groups that was active during the Syrian Civil War.

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Bagong Alyansang Makabayan

The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan or Bayan is an alliance of left-wing Philippine organizations.

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Baloch nationalism

Baloch nationalism is a movement that claims the Baloch people, an ethno-linguistic group mainly found in Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan are a distinct nation.

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Baloch Republican Army

The Baloch Republican Army (بلوچ ریپبلکن آرمی) is an armed separatist group in Balochistan, Pakistan.

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Balochistan Liberation Army

The Balochistan Liberation Army (بلوچستان لبریشن آرمی; abbreviated BLA), also known as the Baloch Liberation Army is a Baloch militant organization based in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters

The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), also known as the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement, is an Islamist militant organization based in Mindanao, the Philippines.

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Barisan Revolusi Nasional

The Barisan Revolusi Nasional Melayu Patani, also known by the shorter form Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN), meaning "National Revolutionary Front", is a Patani independence movement in northern Malaysia and Patani, southern Thailand.

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Basha'ir al-Nasr Brigade

The Basha'ir al-Nasr Brigade (لواء بشائر النصر, meaning the signs of victory Brigade), was an opposition group active in the Syrian Civil War.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Beja Congress

The Beja Congress (BC) is a political group comprising several ethnic entities, most prominently the Beja, of the eastern region of Sudan.

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Bentiu

Bentiu, also spelled Bantiu, is a town in South Sudan.

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Bihar

Bihar is an Indian state considered to be a part of Eastern as well as Northern India.

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Black Star (anarchist group)

Black Star (also known as Mavro Asteri; Μαύρο Αστέρι) is a Greek anarchist terrorist group involved in violent direct action.

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Blue Nile

The Blue Nile is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia.

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Boko Haram

The Islamic State in West Africa (abbreviated as ISWA or ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād (جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, "Group of the People of Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad") and commonly known as Boko Haram until March 2015, is a jihadist militant organization based in northeastern Nigeria, also active in Chad, Niger and northern Cameroon.

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Brigade 93

Brigade 93 is one of many militias that formed in the wake of the Libyan Civil War.

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Bundu dia Kongo

Bundu dia Kongo (Kikongo; literally "Gathering of Kongo"), known as BDK, is a new religious movement with a political and cultural agenda that is associated with the Kongo ethnic group.

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Caucasus Emirate

The Caucasus Emirate (Имарат Кавказ Imarat Kavkaz (IK); Кавказский Эмират Kavkazskiy Emirat), also known as the Caucasian Emirate, was a militant Jihadist organisation active in the southwestern region of the Russian Federation.

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Central African Republic Civil War (2012–2014)

The Central African Republic conflict was a civil war in the Central African Republic (CAR) involving the government, rebels from the Séléka coalition and the Anti-balaka militias.

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Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh (translation: Thirty-Six Forts) is one of the 29 states of India, located in the centre-east of the country.

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Chiapas

Chiapas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas (Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the 31 states that with Mexico City make up the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Chiapas conflict

The Chiapas conflict (Spanish: Conflicto de Chiapas) refers to the 1994 Zapatista Uprising and its aftermath, and tensions between the indigenous peoples and subsistence farmers in the Mexican state of Chiapas in the 1990s and 1980s.

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Chin National Front

The Chin National Front (ချင်းအမျိုးသားတပ်ဦး; CNF) is a Chin nationalist political organization in Myanmar (Burma).

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Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War

Syria is subdivided in a hierarchical manner into.

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Civil Protection Units

The Civil Protection Units (Yekîneyên Parastina Sivîl,; YPS), also known as Civil Defense Units, is a primarily Kurdish rebel group and main armed force in Northern Kurdistan (Turkey).

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Comité Régional d'Action Viticole

Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV, Regional Committee for Viticultural Action), or sometimes Comité d'action viticole (CAV, Committee for Viticultural Action) is a group of militant French wine producers.

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Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist

Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist (in Turkish: Türkiye Komünist Emek Partisi/Leninist) is an illegal communist party in Turkey.

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Communist Party of India (Maoist)

The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is a Maoist communist party in India which aims to overthrow the government of India through people's war.

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Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)

The Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist), حزب کمونیست ایران (مارکسیست-لنینیست-مائوئیست), is an Iranian communist party working in opposition to the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Communist Party of the Philippines

The Communist Party of the Philippines (Filipino: Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas) is a revolutionary organization and the leading communist party in the Philippines, formed by Jose Maria Sison on December 26, 1968.

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Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist

The Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (Türkiye Komünist Partisi/Marksist-Leninist in Turkish, abbreviated as TKP/ML) is a Maoist insurgent organization in Turkey claiming to be carrying out People's War against the Turkish Government.

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Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (Maoist Party Centre)

The Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (Maoist Party Centre) (Türkiye Komünist Partisi/Marksist-Leninist (Maoist Parti Merkezi)) is a clandestine communist party in Turkey, currently waging a war against the Turkish government.

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Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei

The Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei (SPF; Συνωμοσία των Πυρήνων της Φωτιάς, Synomosía ton Pyrínon tis Fotiás), also translated as Conspiracy of Fire Cells or Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, is a radical anarchist organization based in Greece.

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Continuity Irish Republican Army

The Continuity Irish Republican Army, usually known as the Continuity IRA (CIRA) is an Irish republican paramilitary group that claims to be the armed forces of the Irish Republic that was proclaimed in 1916.

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Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace

The Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP) is a rebel group in the Central African Republic (CAR), which was involved in fighting in the Central African Republic Bush War starting in 2004.

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Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco

Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM) is a Mapuche organization dedicated to, what they call, the revindication and recovery of former Mapuche lands.

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Corsican nationalism

Corsican nationalism is a nationalist movement in Corsica, France, active since the 1960s, that advocates more autonomy for the island, if not outright independence.

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Damascus Military Council

The Damascus Revolutionary Military Council (المجلس العسكري الثوري بدمشق), also called the Military Council of Damascus and its Suburbs (المجلس العسكري في دمشق وريفها.), was a Syrian rebel coalition affiliated with the Free Syrian Army created by Colonel Khaled Mohammed al-Hammud on 22 March 2012.

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Daraa Military Council

The Daraa Military Council is a rebel coalition active in Daraa Governorate.

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Dawn of Freedom Brigades

The Dawn of Freedom Brigades (Tajamu Alwiya Fajr al-Hurriya) was a Free Syrian Army-affiliated Syrian rebel alliance which participated in the Syrian Civil War.

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Democratic Federation of Northern Syria

The Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS), commonly known as Rojava, is a de facto autonomous region in northern Syria.

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Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda

The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda, or FDLR) is an armed rebel group active in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Democratic Front for Eritrean Unity

The Democratic Front for Eritrean Unity (abbreviated DFEU) is a rebel group currently fighting the Eritrean government.

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Democratic Front of the Central African People

The Democratic Front of the Central African People (Front démocratique du peuple centrafricain; FDPC) is an anti-government militia in the Central African Republic.

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Democratic Movement for the Liberation of the Eritrean Kunama

The Democratic Movement for the Liberation of the Eritrean Kunama (abbreviated DMLEK) is a Kunama rebel group active in Eritrea.

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Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan

The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI; Hîzbî Dêmukratî Kurdistanî Êran, HDKA; Ḥezb-e Demokrāt-e Kordestān-e Īrān), also known as the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), is an armed leftist ethnic party of Kurds in Iran, exiled in northern Iraq.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa.

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Democratic socialism

Democratic socialism is a political philosophy that advocates political democracy alongside social ownership of the means of production with an emphasis on self-management and/or democratic management of economic institutions within a market socialist, participatory or decentralized planned economy.

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Devrimci Karargâh

Devrimci Karargâh (Revolutionary Headquarters) was a nominally Marxist-Leninist organization in Turkey.

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DKBA-5

The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army - Brigade 5 (ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ကရင်အကျိုးပြုတပ်မတော် - တပ်မဟာ 5; abbreviated DKBA-5), also known as the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ကရင်အကျိုးပြုတပ်မတော်; abbreviated DKBA) and the Klo Htoo Baw Battalion by the Burmese government, is a Karen Buddhist insurgent group in Myanmar.

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Dokumacılar

The Dokumacılar (English: Weavers) is an organisation linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) that specifically targets the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) that have fought against ISIL during the Syrian Civil War.

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Donetsk

Donetsk (Донецьк; Доне́цк; former names: Aleksandrovka, Hughesovka, Yuzovka, Stalino (see also: cities' alternative names)) is an industrial city in Ukraine on the Kalmius River.

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Donetsk Oblast

Donetsk Oblast (Доне́цька о́бласть, Donets'ka oblast', also referred to as Donechchyna, Донеччина Donechchyna, Доне́цкая о́бласть, Donetskaya oblast) is an oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine.

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Donetsk People's Republic

The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR or DNR, dɐˈnʲɛtskəjə nɐˈrodnəjə rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə, Донецька Народна Республіка) is a proto-state in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine recognized only by the partially recognized South Ossetia.

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Eastern Front (Sudan)

The Eastern Front is a coalition of rebel groups operating in eastern Sudan along the border with Eritrea, particularly the states of Red Sea and Kassala.

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Eastern Ukraine

Eastern Ukraine or East Ukraine (Східна Україна, Skhidna Ukrayina; Восточная Украина, Vostochnaya Ukraina) generally refers to territories of Ukraine east of the Dnieper river, particularly Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts.

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Egyptian Islamic Jihad

The Egyptian Islamic Jihad (الجهاد الإسلامي المصري) (EIJ), formerly called simply Islamic Jihad (الجهاد الإسلامي and "Liberation Army for Holy Sites"), originally referred to as al-Jihad, and then the Jihad Group, or the Jihad Organization, is an Egyptian Islamist terrorist group active since the late 1970s.

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Ethiopian People's Patriotic Front

The Ethiopian People Patriotic Front (abbreviated EPPF) is a rebel group in Ethiopia, founded on 15 June 1998, in the Eritrean-Ethiopian border town of Awegaro.

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Ethnic group

An ethnic group, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation.

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Euphrates

The Euphrates (Sumerian: Buranuna; 𒌓𒄒𒉣 Purattu; الفرات al-Furāt; ̇ܦܪܬ Pǝrāt; Եփրատ: Yeprat; פרת Perat; Fırat; Firat) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.

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Falcons of al-Ghab

The Union of Falcons of al-Ghab (Tajammu Suqour al-Ghab) was a Syrian rebel group affiliated with the Free Syrian Army that was formed in the early stage of the Syrian Civil War in February 2012.

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Farouq Brigades

The Farouq Brigades (كتائب الفاروق), also spelt Farooq and Farook, was a armed rebel organisation formed by a number of Homs based members of the Free Syrian Army early in the Syrian Civil War.

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Fastaqim Union

The Fastaqim Kama Umirt Union (lit) is a rebel group active during the Syrian Civil War.

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February 17th Martyrs Brigade

The February 17th Martyrs Brigade is an Islamist militia active in Libya.

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Fedayeen al-Islam

Fedayeen al-Islam (also spelled Fedayan-i-Islam, variously translated as "Islamic Commandos" or "Islamic Patriots") is a militant group in Pakistan under the leadership of Hakimullah Mehsud, who was a deputy to Baitullah Mehsud in the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) prior to Baitullah's death.

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Fidai Mahaz

The Sacrifice Front, more commonly known as Fidai Mahaz, is a Taliban splinter group and faction in the War in Afghanistan.

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First Army (Syrian rebel group)

The First Army was created on 1 January 2015 in an effort to unify rebel ranks in southern Syria.

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First Corps (Syrian rebel group)

The First Corps is a Syrian rebel coalition active during the Syrian Civil War.

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Forces for Renewal

The Forces for Renewal (Forces du Renouveau) is a political party in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Forces of Martyr Ahmad al-Abdo

The Forces of Martyr Ahmad al-Abdo is a Syrian rebel group previously affiliated with the Free Syrian Army's Southern Front.

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Free Aceh Movement

The Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka or simply GAM, Geurakan Acèh Meurdèka, also: Gěrakan Aceh Měrdeka) was a separatist group seeking independence for the Aceh region of Sumatra from Indonesia.

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Free Papua Movement

The Free Papua Movement (Organisasi Papua Merdeka - OPM) is an umbrella term for the independence movement established during 1965 in the West Papuan or West New Guinea territory which is currently being administrated by Indonesia as the provinces of Papua and West Papua, also formerly known as Papua, Irian Jaya and West Irian.

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Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade

The Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade, also known as the Ahrar al-Sunna Baalbek Brigade, is a Sunni jihadist group active in Lebanon.

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Free Syrian Army

The Free Syrian Army (al-Jaysh as-Sūrī al-Ḥurr; abbreviated FSA) is a loose faction in the Syrian Civil War founded on 29 July 2011 by officers of the Syrian Armed Forces who said their goal was to bring down the government of Bashar al-Assad.

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Free Women's Units

The Free Women's Units (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Jinên Azad ên Star), shortened from the Kurdish name as YJA-STAR, is the women's military wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party.

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Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda

The Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (Frente para a Libertação do Enclave de Cabinda, FLEC) is a guerrilla and political movement fighting for the independence of the Angolan province of Cabinda.

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General Military Council for Iraqi Revolutionaries

The General Military Council for Iraqi Revolutionaries (المجلس العسكري العام لثوار العراق al-Majlis al-‘Askari al-‘Āmm li-Thuwwār al-‘Irāq) abbreviated as GMCIR or MCIR, is a Ba'athist militant group active in Iraq headed by Saddam Hussein-era military and political leaders.

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General National Congress

The General National Congress (المؤتمر الوطني العام, Berber: Agraw Amuran Amatay) was the legislative authority of Libya for two years following the end of the Libyan Civil War.

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Gerakan Mujahidin Islam Patani

The Pattani Islamic Mujahideen Movement (Gerakan Mujahidin Islam Patani; GMIP) is an Islamic insurgent movement that has carried out violent actions as part of the protracted insurgency in Southern Thailand.

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Government of Colombia

The Government of Colombia is a republic with separation of powers into executive, judicial and legislative branches.

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Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front

The Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front (İslami Büyükdoğu Akıncılar Cephesi in Turkish, abbreviated İBDA-C) is an Islamic militant organization which follows the Büyük Doğu ("Great East") ideology of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904–1983), a well-known Turkish author, poet and Islamist ideologue.

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Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance

The Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance, also known as the Tribal Alliance of Hadramout or the Hadhramaut Tribes Alliance, is an armed group involved in the ongoing Yemeni Civil War.

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Hamas

Hamas (Arabic: حماس Ḥamās, an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah Islamic Resistance Movement) is a Palestinian Sunni-Islamist fundamentalist organization.

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Hamza Division (Daraa)

The Hamza Division (فرقة الحمزة; Firqat al-Hamza) is a Syrian rebel group affiliated with the Free Syrian Army.

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Haqqani network

The Haqqani network is an Afghan guerrilla insurgent group using asymmetric warfare to fight against US-led NATO forces and the government of Afghanistan.

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Harkat-ul-Mujahideen

Harkat-ul-Mujahideen- al-Islami (حرکت المجاہدین الاسلامی) (abbreviated HUM) is a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group operating primarily in Kashmir.

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Hasm Movement

The Arms of Egypt Movement (حركة ساعد مَصر‎‎ Ḥarakat Sāwa'd Miṣr), commonly known as the Hasm Movement (حسم), is an Islamist militant group operating in Egypt.

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Hawks of the South

The Hawks of the South was a Free Syrian Army coalition that was active during the Syrian Civil War.

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Hazzm Movement

The Hazzm Movement (حركة حزم, Ḥarakat Ḥazzm, meaning Movement of Steadfastness) was an alliance of Syrian rebel groups affiliated with the Free Syrian Army in northwestern Syria that existed from 25 January 2014 until 1 March 2015, when many of them dissolved into the Levant Front.

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Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin

The Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (حزب اسلامی گلبدین; abbreviated HIG), also referred to as Hezb-e-Islami or Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), is an Afghan political party and former militia, founded and led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

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Hezbollah

Hezbollah (pronounced; حزب الله, literally "Party of Allah" or "Party of God")—also transliterated Hizbullah, Hizballah, etc.

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Hizb ut-Tahrir

Hizb ut-Tahrir (حزب التحرير Ḥizb at-Taḥrīr; Party of Liberation) is an international, pan-Islamist political organization, which describes its ideology as Islam, and its aim as the re-establishment of the Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate) or Islamic state to resume the Islamic way of life.

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Hizbul Mujahideen

Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (حزب المجاھدین, Ḥizb al-Mujāhidīn, meaning "Party of Holy Warriors" or "Party of Mujahideen") is a Kashmiri separatist militant organization founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989.

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Houthis

The Houthis (الحوثيون al-Ḥūthiyyūn), officially called Ansar Allah (أنصار الله "Supporters of God"), are members of an Islamic religious-political-armed movement that emerged from Sa'dah in northern Yemen in the 1990s.

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Hoxhaism

Hoxhaism is a variant of anti-revisionist Marxism–Leninism that developed in the late 1970s due to a split in the Maoist movement, appearing after the ideological dispute between the Communist Party of China and the Party of Labour of Albania in 1978.

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Idlib

Idlib (إدلب, also spelled Edlib or Idleb) is a city in northwestern Syria, capital of the Idlib Governorate, southwest of Aleppo.

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Idlib Governorate

Idlib Governorate (مُحافظة ادلب / ALA-LC: Muḥāfaẓat Idlib) is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria.

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Idlib Martyrs' Brigade

The Idlib Martyrs' Brigade (لواء شهداء إدلب, Liwa Shuhada Idlib) was an armed rebel group that fought against the Syrian government in the Idlib Governorate of Syria.

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Idlib Military Council

The Revolutionary Military Council in Idlib Governorate (المجلس العسكري الثوري في محافظة ادلب) was a Syrian rebel military council affiliated with the Free Syrian Army and was headed by Colonel Afif Suleiman. The group was active in the Idlib Governorate.

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Indian Mujahideen

The Indian Mujahideen is a terrorist group led by Abdul Subhan Qureshi.

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Indigenous Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Pacific

The Indigenous Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Pacific (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias Indígenas del Pacífico) is a small guerrilla group based in rural indigenous areas of Colombia.

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Indigenous rights

Indigenous rights are those rights that exist in recognition of the specific condition of the indigenous peoples.

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Informal Anarchist Federation

Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) (in Italian: Federazione Anarchica Informale) is an insurrectionary anarchist organization.

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Internal conflict in Myanmar

The internal conflict in Myanmar refers to a series of primarily ethnic conflicts within Myanmar that began shortly after the country, then known as Burma, became independent from the United Kingdom in 1948.

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International Sikh Youth Federation

The International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF) is a proscribed organisation that aims to establish an independent homeland for the Sikhs of India in Khalistan.

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Iran Liberation Front

Iran Liberation Front (ILF) (Persian جبهه آزادی ایران, Jabhe Azadi Iran) is an Iranian opposition organization that advocates the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which it sees as dictatorial.

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Iraqi Civil War (2014–present)

The Iraqi Civil War is an armed conflict which began in January 2014.

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Irish Republican Liberation Army

The Irish Republican Liberation Army (IRLA) is an Irish paramilitary "self-styled vigilante group" in support of a united Ireland.

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Islamic Army in Iraq

The Islamic Army in Iraq (IAI) (Arabic: الجيش الإسلامي في العراق, al jaysh al islāmi fī'l-`irāq) is one of a number of underground Islamist militant (or mujahideen) organizations formed in Iraq following the 2003 invasion of Iraq by United States and coalition military forces, and the subsequent collapse of the Baathist government headed by Saddam Hussein.

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Islamic Front (Syria)

The Islamic Front (الجبهة الإسلامية, al-Jabhat al-Islāmiyyah) was a Sunni Islamist rebel group involved in the Syrian Civil War, which was formed by the merger of seven separate groups on 22 November 2013.

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Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia

The Islamic Front for Liberation of Oromia (abbreviated IFLO) was an Oromo-based political and paramilitary organization founded in 1985 by its Commander in Chief, Sheikh Abdulkarim Ibrahim Hamid, otherwise known as Jaarraa Abbaa Gadaa.

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Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (حركة الجهاد الإسلامي في فلسطين, Harakat al-Jihād al-Islāmi fi Filastīn) known in the West as simply Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), is a Palestinian Islamist terrorist organization formed in 1981 whose objective is the destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of a sovereign, Islamic Palestinian state.

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Islamic Jihad of Yemen

The Islamic Jihad of Yemen (الجهاد الإسلامي في اليمن) was an al-Qaeda terrorist affiliate that claimed responsibility for the 2008 American Embassy attack in Yemen.

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Islamic Jihad Union

The Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) is a militant Islamist organization founded in 2002 as a splinter group of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU).

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Islamic Liberation Front of Patani

The Islamic Liberation Front of Patani (Barisan Islam Pembebasan Patani, abbreviated BIPP), until 1986 known as the National Liberation Front of Patani (NLFP; Barisan Nasional Pembebasan Patani, BNPP; also translated as "Patani National Liberation Front" or "National Front for the Liberation of Pattani"; ขบวนการแนวร่วมปลดแอกแห่งชาติปัตตานี) is a militant Islamic separatist movement based in northern Malaysia and with a history of operations in the South Thailand insurgency.

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Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU, Ўзбекистон исломий ҳаракати/Oʻzbekiston islomiy harakati) was a militant Islamist group formed in 1998 by the Islamic ideologue Tahir Yuldashev, and former Soviet paratrooper Juma Namangani—both ethnic Uzbeks from the Fergana Valley.

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Islamic Party of Kurdistan

Islamic Party of Kurdistan (Partiya İslamiya Kurdistan) is a Kurdish (Sunni) Islamist organisation established in 1979 and led-by Muhammad Salih Mustafa.

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Islamic State in Somalia

The Islamic State in Somalia (short: ISS) or Abnaa ul-Calipha is an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant-affiliated group that primarily operates in the mountainous areas of Puntland, though has also claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks throughout the rest of Somalia.

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), Islamic State (IS) and by its Arabic language acronym Daesh (داعش dāʿish), is a Salafi jihadist terrorist organisation and former unrecognised proto-state that follows a fundamentalist, Salafi/Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam.

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Algeria Province

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Algeria Province (الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام – ولاية الجزائر, ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī 'l-ʿIrāq wa-sh-Shām – Wilayah al-Jazā’er), or ISIL-AP, is a branch of the militant Islamist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), active in Algeria.

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Caucasus Province

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Caucasus Province (الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام - ولاية القوقاز, ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī 'l-ʿIrāq wa-sh-Shām – Wilayah al-Qawqaz Вилаят Кавказ Исламского государство Ирака и Леванта, Vilayat Kavkaz Islamskogo gosudarstvo Iraka i Levanta), also known as ISIL-CP or Vilayat Kavkaz, is a branch of the militant Islamist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), active in the North Caucasus region of Russia.

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province (الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام – ولاية خراسان, ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī 'l-ʿIrāq wa-sh-Shām – Wilayah Khorasan), or ISIL-KP, is a branch of the militant Islamist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), active in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Sinai Province

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Sinai Province (الدولة الإسلاميةولاية سيناء, ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī 'l-ʿIrāq wa-sh-Shām – Wilayah Sīnāʼ), or ISIL-SP, is a militant Islamist group active in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Yemen Province

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Yemen Province (الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام – ولاية اليَمَن, ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī 'l-ʿIrāq wa-sh-Shām – Wilayah al-Yaman), or ISIL-YP, is a branch of the militant Islamist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), active in Yemen.

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Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Libya

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is a militant Islamist group active in Libya under three branches: Fezzan Province (ولاية الفزان, Wilayah al-Fizan) in the desert south, Cyrenaica Province (ولاية البرقة, Wilayah al-Barqah) in the east, and Tripolitania Province (ولاية الطرابلس, Wilayah al-Tarabulus) in the west.

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Islamism

Islamism is a concept whose meaning has been debated in both public and academic contexts.

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Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (كتائب الشهيد عز الدين القسام; named after Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, often shortened to Al-Qassam Brigades, EQB) is the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas organization.

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Jabhat al-Akrad

Jabhat al-Akrad (جبهة الأكراد; lit), full name: (Liwa' Jabhat al-'Akrad l-Nusra Shaʿbnā al-Sūrī, "Kurdish Front Brigade for the Victory of the Syrian People"), is a predominantly Kurdish Syrian rebel faction participating in the Syrian civil war.

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Jabhat Ghuraba al-Sham

The Ghuraba al-Sham Front (جبهة غرباء الشام Jabhat Ghurabā’ ash-Shām, "Strangers/Foreigners of the Levant") was a group of fighters, active during the Syrian civil war, in favor of a non-religious state.

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Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah

Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah (Jaysh aṭ-Ṭā’ifa al-Manṣūrah, "Army of the Victorious Sect") is a militant Sunni group known to take part in the Iraqi insurgency.

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Jaish ul-Adl

Jaish ul-Adl or Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) is a Sunni insurgent group based in Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran, responsible for several attacks against civilians and military personnel in Iran.

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Jaish-e-Mohammed

Jaish-e-Mohammed (جيش محمد, literally "The Army of Muhammad", abbreviated as JeM) is a Deobandi: "Deobandis like Masood Azhar, a graduate of Jamia Binouria who later set up a jihadist outfit named Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) in 2000, reportedly at the behest of Pakistan's military establishment." jihadist: "as soon as he was freed, Masood Azhar was back in Pakistan where he founded a new jihadist movement, Jai-sh e Mohd Shaikh, which became one of the jihadist groups the ISI used in Kashmir and elsewhere." group active in Kashmir.

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Jamaah Ansharut Daulah

Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) is an Indonesian group that has been reported as linked to the 2018 Surabaya bombings.

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Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid

Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid, Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid, or (JAT) is a splinter cell of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) designated as a terrorist organization by the United Nations and the United States.

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Jamaat-ul-Ahrar

Jamaat-ul-Ahrar ("Assembly of the Free," abbreviated as JuA) is a terrorist organization that split away from Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in August 2014.

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Jarabulus

Jarabulus (جرابلس / ALA-LC: Jarābulus; Cerablus, North Syrian Arabic: Jrāblos), is a Syrian city administratively belonging to Aleppo Governorate.

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Jarabulus Company

The Jarabulus Company (Sarāyā Jarābulus) was a Syrian rebel group that was active during the Syrian Civil War.

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Jaysh al-Ababil

The Jaysh al-Ababil is a rebel group active during the Syrian Civil War.

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Jaysh al-Islam

Jaysh al-Islam (جيش الإسلام, meaning Army of Islam), formerly known as Liwa al-Islam (لواء الإسلام, Brigade of Islam), is a coalition of Islamist rebel units involved in the Syrian Civil War.

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Jaysh al-Ummah

The Jaysh al-Ummah (جيش الأمة; lit. Army of the Ummah) was a coalition of 20 small rebel groups active during the Syrian Civil War.

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Jemaah Islamiyah

Jemaah Islamiyah (الجماعة الإسلامية, al-Jamāʿah al-Islāmiyyah, meaning "Islamic Congregation", frequently abbreviated JI) is a Southeast Asian militant extremist Islamist rebel group dedicated to the establishment of an Islamic state in Southeast Asia.

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Jharkhand

Jharkhand (lit. "Bushland" or The land of forest) is a state in eastern India, carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000.

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Jundallah (Iran)

Jundallah (lit), also known as People's Resistance Movement of Iran (PRMI), is a Sunni militant organization based in Sistan and Baluchestan, a southeastern region of Iran, that claims to be fighting for "equal rights of Sunni Muslims in Iran".

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Jundallah (Pakistan)

Jundallah (جندالله, lit. "Soldiers of God") is a militant group associated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

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Justice and Equality Movement

The Justice and Equality Movement (abbreviated JEM; حركة العدل والمساواة) is a Sudanese opposition group founded by Khalil Ibrahim, the group has been led since January 2012 by his brother Gibril Ibrahim, as Khalil was killed in December 2011.

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Kachin conflict

The Kachin conflict or Kachin War is one of the multiple conflicts collectively referred to as the internal conflict in Myanmar.

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Kachin Independence Army

The Kachin Independence Army (Kachin: ShangLawt Hpyen, ကချင် လွတ်မြောက်ရေး တပ်မတော်; abbreviated KIA) is the military wing of the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), a political group of ethnic Kachins in northern Myanmar (formerly Burma).

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Kachin Independence Organisation

The Kachin Independence Organisation (ကချင်လွတ်လပ်ရေး အဖွဲ့ချုပ်; abbreviated KIO) is a Kachin ethno-political organisation in Myanmar (Burma), established on 5 February 1961.

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Kachin State

Kachin State (Kachin: Jingphaw Mungdaw; ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္) is the northernmost state of Myanmar.

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Kaga-Bandoro

Kaga-Bandoro is a market town in the northern Central African Republic.

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Karen National Union

The Karen National Union (ကရင် အမျိုးသား အစည်းအရုံး; abbreviated KNU) is a political organisation with an armed wing, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), that claims to represent the Karen people of Myanmar (Burma).

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Karenni Army

The Karenni Army (ကရင်နီ တပ်မတော်; abbreviated KA, KnA or KiA) is the armed wing of the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP), and operates in eastern Kayah State (also known as Karenni State), Myanmar (Burma).

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Kataib al-Khoul

Kataib al-Khoul, also known as the Ossetian Jamaat and Vilayat Iriston, was a militant Islamist organization connected to numerous attacks against the local and federal security forces in the Russian region of North Ossetia–Alania in the North Caucasus.

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Khalistan Commando Force

The Khalistan Commando Force or KCF is a organisation supported by radical Sikh groups operating in the Indian state of Punjab with prominent members based in Canada,U.K and Pakistan.

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Khalistan Zindabad Force

The Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) is a militant group, and is part of the Khalistan movement to create a Sikh homeland called Khalistan via armed struggle.

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Khorasan group

The Khorasan group, sometimes known simply as Khorasan, is an alleged group of senior al-Qaeda members operating in Syria.

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Kidal

Kidal (Tuareg-Berber: ⴾⴸⵍ, Kidal) is a town and commune in the desert region of northern Mali.

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Kivu conflict

The Kivu conflict began in 2004 in the eastern Congo as an armed conflict between the military of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) and the Hutu Power group Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan

Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan (lit), simply known as the Komalah (Komełe; کومله), is an armed communist ethnic party of Kurds in Iran, exiled in northern Iraq.

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Kurdish nationalism

Kurdish nationalism (Kurdish: Kurdayetî, کوردایەتی) holds that the Kurdish people are deserving of a sovereign nation that would be partitioned out of areas in Turkey, northern Iraq, and Syria based on the promised nation of Kurdistan under the Treaty of Sèvres.

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Kurdistan Communities Union

The Kurdistan Communities Union or KCK (Koma Civakên Kurdistan) is a Kurdish political organization committed to implementing Abdullah Öcalan's ideology of Democratic Confederalism.

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Kurdistan Free Life Party

The Kurdistan Free Life Party, or PJAK (Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê), is a militant leftist-nationalist, anti-Iranian government group.

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Kurdistan Freedom Hawks

The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks or TAK (Teyrêbazên Azadiya Kurdistan), is a Kurdish nationalist militant group in Turkey seeking an independent Kurdish state in eastern and southeastern Turkey.

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Kurdistan Freedom Party

Kurdistan Freedom Party, (پارتی ئازادیی کوردستان - Parti Azadi Kurdistan), abbreviated as PAK, is a Kurdish political party active in both Iranian and Iraqi Kurdistan which seeks the attainment of Kurdish national rights within a democratic federal republic of Iran.

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Kurdistan Workers' Party

The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê) is an organization based in Turkey and Iraq.

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Laiza

Laiza (လိုင်ဇာ) is a town in the Kachin State, Myanmar, on the border with China.

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Lashkar-e-Islam

Lashkar-e-Islam (لشكرِ اسلام), (LI or LeI) literally Army of Islam also transliterated as Lashkar-e-Islami, Lashkar-i-Islam) is a militant organization active in and around Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. LeI was founded in 2004 by Mufti Munir Shakir. The most recent leader was Mangal Bagh. On March 12, 2015, Lashkar-e-Islam announced that it was joining Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan. Pakistan banned the organization in June 2008 On April 17, 2008, Bagh claimed that LeI has over 180,000 volunteers in Khyber Agency On April 27, 2008, it was reported that a "Lashkar-e-Islam" has changed its name to "Jaish-e-Islami". It is unclear whether this is the same group, or another which happened to use the same name. The reports stated that this LeI is located in Bajaur Agency, and headed by Wali Rehman.

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Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ; لشکر جھنگوی) or "Army of Jhangvi", is a Sunni supremacist and jihadist militant organisation based in Pakistan with limited operations in Afghanistan.

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Lashkar-e-Omar

Lashkar-e-Omar (The Army of Omar) is a Pakistani Islamic fundamentalist terrorist organisation.

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Lashkar-e-Taiba

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT, لشکر طیبہ; literally Army of the Good, translated as Army of the Righteous, or Army of the Pure and alternatively spelled as Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba; Lashkar-e-Taiba; Lashkar-i-Tayyeba) is one of the largest and most active Islamic terrorism militant organizations in South Asia, operating mainly from Pakistan.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.

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Levant Front

The Levant Front (الجبهة الشامية, Jabhat al-Shamiyah, also translated as the Sham Front or the Levantine Front) is a Syrian rebel group based around Aleppo involved in the Syrian Civil War.

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Liberation and Justice Movement

The Liberation and Justice Movement is a rebel group in the Darfur conflict in Sudan, led by Dr Tijani Sese.

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Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room

The Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (abbreviated LROR; غرفة عمليات ثوار ليبيا) is an armed group loyal to Nouri Abusahmain.

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Libya Shield 1

Libya Shield 1 is an Islamist armed group in Benghazi and eastern Libya.

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Libya Shield Force

The Libya Shield Force is an armed organisation formed in 2012 out of anti-Gaddafi armed groups spread throughout Libya.

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Lions of Sunna Brigade

The Lions of Sunna Brigade is a Free Syrian Army group fighting under the banner of the Southern Front.

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Lions of the East Army

The Lions of the East Army (جيش أسود الشرقية; Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiya) is a Syrian rebel group formerly affiliated with the Free Syrian Army's Southern Front that was formed in August 2014 and is based in southeastern Syria.

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List of designated terrorist groups

This is a list of designated terrorist groups by national governments, former governments, and inter-governmental organizations, where the proscription has a significant effect on the group's activities.

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List of guerrilla movements

This is a list of notable guerrilla movements.

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List of left-wing rebel groups

This is a list of left-wing rebel groups around the world.

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List of ongoing armed conflicts

The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world and continue to result in violence.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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List of states with limited recognition

A number of polities have declared independence and sought diplomatic recognition from the international community as de jure sovereign states, but have not been universally recognised as such.

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Lists of active separatist movements

Presented below is a list of lists of active, separatist movements.

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Liwa Ahrar Souriya

The Free Men of Syria Brigade (لواء أحرار سوريا; Liwa Ahrar Souriya) is a group of Syrian rebel fighters affiliated with the Free Syrian Army which was active during the Syrian Civil War, mainly around Aleppo.

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Liwa Thuwar al-Raqqa

Liwa Thuwar al-Raqqa (lit) is a rebel group active in the Syrian Civil War.

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Lord's Resistance Army

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), also known as the Lord's Resistance Movement, is a rebel group and heterodox Christian group which operates in northern Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Luhansk

Luhansk (Luhans'k) or Lugansk (Луганск), formerly known as Voroshilovgrad (1935–1958 and 1970–1990) is a city near the eastern border of Ukraine and western Russia.

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Luhansk Oblast

Luhansk Oblast (Луганська область, translit. Luhanśka oblastj, Луганская область, translit. Luganskaja oblastj; also referred to as Luhanshchyna, translit) is the easternmost oblast (province) of Ukraine.

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Luhansk People's Republic

The Luhansk People's Republic (Луганська Народна Республіка), also known as Lugansk People's Republic (lʊˈɡanskəjə nɐˈrodnəjə rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə), usually abbreviated as LPR or LNR, is a landlocked proto-state in eastern Ukraine.

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Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh (MP;; meaning Central Province) is a state in central India.

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Maharashtra

Maharashtra (abbr. MH) is a state in the western region of India and is India's second-most populous state and third-largest state by area.

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Mai-Mai

The term Mai-Mai or Mayi-Mayi refers to any kind of community-based militia group active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formed to defend their local territory against other armed groups.

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Mai-Mai Kata Katanga

Mai-Mai Kata Katanga, also called Mai-Mai Bakata Katanga, is a mai-mai rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which supports the independence of the Congo's Katanga Province.

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Maoism

Maoism, known in China as Mao Zedong Thought, is a political theory derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong, whose followers are known as Maoists.

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Maoist Communist Party (Turkey)

Maoist Communist Party of Turkey (Maoist Komünist Partisi abbreviated as MKP) is a Maoist insurgent organization in Turkey.

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Maoist Communist Party of Manipur

Maoist Communist Party of Manipur is an Maoist Armed Revolutionary Party communist party in Manipur which aims "to establish a communist society through armed revolutionary war." The Maoist Communist Party of Manipur also intends at liberating the people of Manipur from whom they view as "colonial India.".

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Martyrs of Islam Brigade

The Martyrs of Islam Brigade (لواء شهداء الإسلام; Liwa Shuhada al-Islam) is a Syrian rebel group formed in the Damascus suburb of Darayya and was the main group that operated in the suburb.

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Marxism

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.

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Marxist–Leninist Armed Propaganda Unit

Marxist–Leninist Armed Propaganda Unit (Marksist Leninist Silahlı Propaganda Birliği, abbreviated as MLSPB), known fully as People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist Armed Propaganda Unit (THKP-C/MLSPB) is a Marxist–Leninist organization from Turkey.

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Marxist–Leninist Communist Party (Turkey)

Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (Marksist-Leninist Komünist Partisi, abbreviated as MLKP) is an underground Hoxhaist communist party in Turkey.

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Military activity of ISIL

The military of ISIL is the fighting force of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

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Moro Islamic Liberation Front

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF; جبهة تحرير مورو الإسلامية Jabhat Taḥrīr Moro al-ʾIslāmiyyah) is a group based in Mindanao, Philippines seeking an autonomous region of the Moro people from the central government.

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Moro National Liberation Front

The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) is a political organization in the Philippines that was founded in 1972.

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Mountain Hawks Brigade

The Mountain Hawks Brigade (Liwa’ Suqour al-Jabal), formerly the Hawks of Mount Zawiya Brigade (Liwa' Suqour Jabal al-Zawiya), is a Saudi-sponsored Free Syrian Army rebel group operating in northwestern Syria.

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Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa

The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (abbreviated MOJWA) or the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (abbreviated MUJWA; جماعة التوحيد والجهاد في غرب أفريقيا Jamāʿat at-tawḥīd wal-jihād fī gharb ʾafrīqqīyā; Mouvement pour l'unicité et le jihad en Afrique de l'Ouest, abbreviated MUJAO), was a militant Islamist organisation that broke off from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb with the intended goal of spreading jihad across a larger section of West Africa.

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Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is one of the largest militant groups in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

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Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance

The Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (Mouvement des forces démocratiques de Casamance, MFDC) is the main separatist movement in the Casamance region of Senegal, founded in 1982.

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Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem

The Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem or simply the Mujahideen Shura Council (also known as the Mujahideen Shura Council of Jerusalem, in Arabic: Majlis Shura Al-Mujahideen, Magles Shoura al-Mujahedeen, and other names) is an armed Salafi jihadist group linked to al-QaedaThomas Joscelyn,, Long War Journal (Foundation for the Defense of Democracies) 19-06-2012 that is active in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and in the Gaza Strip.

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Mujahidin Indonesia Timur

The East Indonesia Mujahideen (Mujahidin Indonesia Timur; abbreviated MIT) is a terrorist group operating out of Poso, Sulawesi in Indonesia.

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Mullah Dadullah Front

The Mullah Dadullah Front, also known as the Dadullah Front, the Mullah Dadullah Lang Allegiance or the Mullah Dadullah Mahaz,Roggio, Bill, "", The Long War Journal, 4 December 2010.

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Najran

Najran (نجران), is a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen.

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National Army for the Liberation of Uganda

The National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (abbreviated NALU) was a rebel group opposed to the Ugandan government.

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National Democratic Front of the Philippines

The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) (Filipino: Pambansang Demokratikong Prente ng Pilipinas (PDPP)) is a coalition of progressive social and economic justice organizations, agricultural unions, trade unions, indigenous rights groups, leftist political parties, and other related groups in the Philippines.

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National Forces of Liberation

The National Forces of Liberation (Forces nationales de libération, or FNL) is a political party and former rebel group in Burundi.

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National Front for the Liberation of Syria

The National Front for the Liberation of Syria (جبهة الوطنية لتحرير سوريا) is a Syrian rebel alliance formed in southwestern Syria.

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National Liberation Army (Colombia)

The National Liberation Army (Spanish: Ejército de Liberación Nacional, ELN) is an armed group involved in the continuing Colombian armed conflict, Official Journal of the European Union.

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National Liberation Front of Corsica

The National Liberation Front of Corsica (Front de libération nationale corse; Fronte di Liberazione Naziunale Corsu; abbreviated FLNC) is a militant group that advocates an independent state on the island of Corsica, separate from France.

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National Movement for Reform and Development

The National Movement for Reform and Development (NMRD) is a Sudanese rebel group based in the region of Darfur.

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National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad

The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad or the Azawad National Liberation Movement (Tamasheq: ⵜⴰⵏⴾⵔⴰ ⵏ ⵜⵓⵎⴰⵙⵜ ⴹ ⴰⵙⵍⴰⵍⵓ ⵏ ⴰⵣⴰⵓⴷ, الحركة الوطنية لتحرير أزواد al-Ḥarakat al-Waṭaniyat Litaḥrīr ʾĀzawād, Mouvement national de libération de l'Azawad; MNLA), formerly the National Movement of Azawad (Mouvement national de l'Azawad; MNA), is a political and military organisation based in Azawad in northern Mali.

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National Redemption Front

The National Redemption Front (NRF) is an alliance of opposition groups in Darfur, Sudan.

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National Socialist Council of Nagaland

The National Socialist Council of Nagaland (abbreviated NSCN) is a Greater Naga Revolutionist, Christian Naga nationalist insurgent group operating mainly in Northeast India, with minor activities in northwest Myanmar (Burma) until 2012.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is a political, social, and economic system characterized by the promotion of the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining sovereignty (self-governance) over the homeland.

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Nationalist and Integrationist Front

The Nationalist and Integrationist Front (Front des Nationalistes et Intégrationnistes, or FNI) is a rebel group active in the Ituri conflict in Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo, associated with the Lendu ethnic group.

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Naxalite

A Naxal or Naxalite is a member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist).

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Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency is an ongoing conflict between Maoist groups, known as Naxalites or Naxals, and the Indian government.

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New People's Army

The New People's Army (NPA) (Bagong Hukbong Bayan) is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Niger Delta Avengers

The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) is a militant group in Nigeria's Niger Delta.

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Niger Delta Liberation Front

The Niger Delta Liberation Front (NDLF) is a militant group in Nigeria's Niger Delta.

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Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force

The Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force is one of the largest armed groups in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria and is composed primarily of members of the region's largest ethnic group, the Ijaw.

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Niger Delta Vigilante

The Niger Delta Vigilante (abbreviated NDV) is an armed militia group in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

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Ninja (militia)

The Ninjas are a militia in the Republic of the Congo, which participated in numerous wars and insurgencies in the 1990s and 2000s.

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North Waziristan

North Waziristan (Urdu:شمالی وزیرستان) is a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the northern part of Waziristan, a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan and covering.

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North Yemen

North Yemen is the geographic area named the Yemen Arab Republic (1962–1990), its predecessor, the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (1918–1962), and their predecessors that exercised sovereignty over the territory that is now the north-western part of the state of Yemen in southern Arabia.

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Northern Division (Syrian rebel group)

The Northern Division (الفرقة الشمالية), formerly the Knights of Justice Brigade (لواء فرسان الحق), is a Free Syrian Army group sanctioned by the Syrian National Council and formerly part of the Syrian Revolutionary Command Council.

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Northern Mali conflict

The Northern Mali Conflict, Mali Civil War, or Mali War refers to armed conflicts that started from January 2012 between the northern and southern parts of Mali in Africa.

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Nuer White Army

The Nuer White Army, sometimes decapitalised as the "white army", is a semi-official name for a militant organisation formed by the Nuer people of central and eastern Greater Upper Nile in modern-day South Sudan as early as 1991.

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Odisha

Odisha (formerly Orissa) is one of the 29 states of India, located in eastern India.

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Ogaden National Liberation Front

The Ogaden National Liberation Front (abbreviated ONLF, Jabhadda Wadaniga Xoreynta Ogaadeenya; الجبهة الوطنية لتحرير أوغادين.) is a separatist rebel group fighting for the right to self-determination for Somalis in the Somali Region of Ethiopia.

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Omari Brigades

The Omari Brigades is a Syrian rebel group formed in the Lajat region in Daraa Governorate as the first FSA group formed in the province.

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Orange Volunteers

The Orange Volunteers (OV) or Orange Volunteer Force (OVF) is a small Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland.

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Oromo Liberation Front

The Oromo Liberation Front (Adda Bilisummaa Oromoo, abbreviated ABO; English abbreviation OLF) is an organisation established in 1973 by Oromo nationalists to promote self-determination for the Oromo people against perceived Abyssinian colonial rule.

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Pa-O National Liberation Army

The Pa-O National Liberation Army (ပအိုဝ်းအမျိုးသားလွတ်မြောက်ရေးတပ်မတော်; abbreviated PNLA) is a Pa-O insurgent group in Myanmar (Burma).

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Palaung State Liberation Front

The Palaung State Liberation Front (ပလောင်ပြည်နယ်လွတ်မြောက်ရေးတပ်ဦး; abbreviated PSLF) is a political organization in Myanmar.

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Pangkham

Pangkham (Wa: Bangkum), previously known before 1999 as Pangsang (alternative spellings Panghsang, Phangsang), is a town in far eastern Shan State of Myanmar (Burma).

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Paraguayan People's Army

The Paraguayan People’s Army (Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo, EPP) is a communist guerrilla movement that has staged a number of armed operations, including bombings, arson attacks, shootings and kidnappings as part of an organized insurgency.

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Patani United Liberation Organisation

The Patani United Liberation Organisation (Pertubuhan Pembebasan Bersatu Patani; abbreviated PULO) is a separatist insurgent group in Thailand, calling for an independent Patani.

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Patriotic Convention for Saving the Country

The Patriotic Convention for Saving the Country (CPSK) is a militia in the Central African Republic.

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Patriotic Resistance Front of Ituri

The Front for Patriotic Resistance in Ituri (Force de résistance patriotique d’Ituri; FRPI) is a Bunia-based armed militia and political party primarily active in the south of the Ituri Province of northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly the Orientale Province).

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People's Defence Forces

The People's Defence Forces (Hêzên Parastina Gel, HPG) is the military wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

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People's Mujahedin of Iran

The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran or the Mojahedin-e Khalq (Sāzmān-e mojāhedin-e khalq-e irān, abbreviated MEK, PMOI or MKO), commonly known in Iran as Munafiqin ("hypocrites"), is an Iranian political–militant organization in exile that advocates the violent overthrow of the current government in Iran, while claiming itself as the replacing government in exile.

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People's Protection Units

The People's Protection Units (یەکینەکانی پاراستنی گەل;Yekîneyên Parastina Gel, وحدات حماية الشعب, translit; YPG) is a mainly-Kurdish militia in Syria and the primary component of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria's Syrian Democratic Forces.

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Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement

The Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement (Halkların Birleşik Devrim Hareketi, HBDH) is an alliance of ten leftist, revolutionary socialist and some communist Turkish and Kurdish organizations in Turkey.

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Popular Fighters Group

The Popular Fighters Group, also referred to as Group of Popular Rebels (Greek: Ομάδα Λαϊκών Αγωνιστών) is a Greek left-wing terrorist group that is anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist.

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Popular Front for Justice in the Congo

The Popular Front for Justice in the Congo (Front populaire pour la justice au Congo, or FPJC) is an armed group operating in the south of Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where it has participated in the Ituri conflict.

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Popular Front for Recovery

The Popular Front for Recovery (Front Populaire pour le Redressement; FPR) was a militia from Chad.

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Popular Liberation Army

The Popular Liberation Army (Ejército Popular de Liberación, EPL), is a Colombian guerrilla group created in 1967.

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Popular Resistance Committees

The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) (Arabic: لجان المقاومة الشعبية, Lijān al-Muqāwama al-Shaʿbiyya) is a coalition of a number of armed Palestinian groups opposed to what they regard as the conciliatory approach of the Palestinian Authority and Fatah towards Israel.

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Popular Revolutionary Army

The Popular Revolutionary Army or Ejército Popular Revolucionario is a leftist guerrilla movement in Mexico.

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Qamishli

Qamishli (القامشلي, Qamişlo, lit or translit) is a city in northeastern Syria on the border with Turkey, adjoining the Turkish city of Nusaybin, and close to Iraq.

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Quetta

Quetta (کوټه; کویته; کوٹه; کوئٹہ) is the provincial capital and largest city of Balochistan, Pakistan.

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Quneitra Military Council

The Quneitra Military Council is a Syrian rebel coalition affiliated with the Free Syrian Army that was armed with U.S.-made BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles.

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a broadcasting organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East where it says that "the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed".

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Rafallah al-Sahati Brigade

The Rafallah Sahati Brigade is named after one of the first Libyans to die while fighting Gaddafi's forces in March 2011 in Benghazi.

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Rajah Sulaiman Movement

The Rajah Sulaiman Movement was an organization in the Philippines, founded by Ahmed Santos in 1991.

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Rashaida Free Lions

The Rashaida Free Lions (al-usud al-hurra, الأسود الحُرة) are an armed group of the Rashaida people that was active in the eastern regions of Sudan.

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Real Irish Republican Army

The Real Irish Republican Army or Real IRA (RIRA), also called the New IRA (NIRA) since 2012, is a dissident Irish republican paramilitary organisation which aims to bring about a united Ireland.

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Real Ulster Freedom Fighters

The Real Ulster Freedom Fighters, otherwise known as the Real UFF, was a dissident loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland.

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Red corridor

The Red Corridor is the region in the eastern, central and the southern parts of India that experience considerable Naxalite–Maoist insurgency.

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Red Hand Defenders

The Red Hand Defenders (RHD) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland.

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Red Sea Afar Democratic Organisation

The Red Sea Afar Democratic Organisation (Qasa Badih Qafarih Dimokraasih Missoyna; ዲሞክራሲያዊ ውድብ ዓፋር ቀይሕ ባሕሪ; التنظيم الديمقراطي لعفر البحر الأحمر, transliteration: Al-tanzim Al-dimokrati Li-'afar Al-Bahr Al-Ahmar; abbreviated RSADO) is an Eritrean political organisation and armed insurgent group based in Ethiopia.

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RENAMO

The Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO; Resistência Nacional Moçambicana) is a militant organization and political movement in Mozambique.

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Republic of Logone

The Republic of Logone, also known as the Republic of Dar El Kuti, is a proto-state internationally recognised as part of the Central African Republic.

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Republic of South Maluku

South Maluku, officially the Republic of South Maluku, is an unrecognized secessionist republic in the southern Maluku Islands archipelago in Maritime Southeast Asia that claims the islands of Ambon, Buru, and Seram as part of its territory, all of which are currently part of the Indonesian province of Maluku.

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Resistencia Ancestral Mapuche

Resistencia Ancestral Mapuche (Mapuche Ancestral Resistance, RAM) is a separatist guerrilla group that operates near Patagonia in Argentina and Chile, seeking to secede territories of both countries to create a Mapuche nation.

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Retribution Army

The Retribution Army (جيش القصاص; Jayš al-Qaṣaṣ) was a Free Syrian Army (FSA)-affiliated group formed by Deir ez-Zor natives that fought in the Syrian Civil War against the government and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

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Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia—Ejército del Pueblo, FARC–EP and FARC) was a guerrilla movement involved in the continuing Colombian armed conflict from 1964 to 2017.

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Revolutionary Army (Syria)

The Revolutionary Army (جيش الثورة; Jaysh al-Thawra) is a Syrian rebel alliance affiliated with the Southern Front of the Free Syrian Army.

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Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front

The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş Partisi-Cephesi or DHKP-C) is a Turkish Marxist–Leninist party.

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Revolutionary socialism

Revolutionary socialism is the socialist doctrine that social revolution is necessary in order to bring about structural changes to society.

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Revolutionary Struggle

Revolutionary Struggle (EA; Greek: Επαναστατικός Αγώνας, Epanastatikos Agonas) is a Greek group known for its attacks on Greek government buildings and the American embassy in Athens.

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Revolutionary Workers' Party (Philippines)

The Revolutionary Workers' Party of the Philippines (RPM-P; Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawà ng Pilipinas) is a communist party that split from the Communist Party of the Philippines during the Second Great Rectification Movement.

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Right-wing paramilitarism in Colombia

Right-wing paramilitary groups in Colombia are paramilitary groups acting in opposition to revolutionary Marxist-Leninist guerrilla forces and their allies among the civilian population.

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Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs

Riyad-us Saliheen (Russian: Риядус-Салихийн, also transliterated as Riyadus-Salikhin, Riyad us-Saliheyn or Riyad us-Salihiin) is the name of a small "martyr" (shahid) force of Islamic suicide attackers.

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Runda Kumpulan Kecil

The Runda Kumpulan Kecil (translation: "Small Patrol Units", RKK) is a militant Islamic insurgent group operating in Southern Thailand.

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Sa'dah

Sa'dah (صعدة) is the capital city of Saada Governorate in north-western Yemen at an elevation of about 1,800 meters.

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Saho People's Democratic Movement

The Saho People's Democratic Movement (abbreviated SPDM) is a rebel group in Eritrea, fighting for the self-determination of the Saho people.

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Salafi jihadism

Salafi jihadism or jihadist-Salafism is a transnational religious-political ideology based on a belief in "physical" jihadism and the Salafi movement of returning to what adherents believe to be true Sunni Islam.

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Sana'a

Sana'a (صنعاء, Yemeni Arabic), also spelled Sanaa or Sana, is the largest city in Yemen and the centre of Sana'a Governorate.

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Saraya Ahl al-Sham

Saraya Ahl al-Sham (سرايا أهل الشام; Company of the People of the Levant) is a rebel alliance active in the Syrian Civil War.

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Séléka

Séléka CPSK-CPJP-UFDR is an alliance of rebel militia factions and terrorist groups that overthrew the Central African Republic (CAR) on March 24, 2013.

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Sect of Revolutionaries

The Sect of Revolutionaries or Rebel Sect (Σέχτα των Επαναστατών, Sechta ton Epanastaton) is a far-left (although they have been called a part of the revolutionary nihilist movement) terrorist group currently active in Greece.

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Shammar

The tribe of Shammar (Arabic: شمّر Šammar) is a tribal Arab Qahtanite confederation, descended from the ancient tribe of Tayy.

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Shan State Army - North

The Shan State Army-North (ရှမ်းပြည်တပ်မတော် - မြောက်ပိုင်း; abbreviated SSA-N), also known as Shan State Army/Special Region 3 (SSA/SR-3) is a Shan nationalist insurgent group in Myanmar (Burma).

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Shan State Army - South

The Shan State Army - South (တပ်ႉသိုၵ်းၸိုင်ႈတႆး - ပွတ်းၸၢၼ်း; abbreviated SSA-S), also known simply as the Shan State Army, is the armed wing of the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) and one of the largest insurgent groups in Myanmar (Burma).

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Shariat Jamaat

Vilayat Dagestan (Province of Dagestan, Вилайят Дагестан, Vilayyat Dagestan), formerly known as Shariat Jamaat, is an Islamist Jihadist group based in the Russian republic of Dagestan and is part of the Caucasus Emirate.

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Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade

The Islamist militant group "Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade"(لواء الشيخ عمر حديد in Arabic), previously known (although still referred to) as a brigade of "Ansar Bait al-Maqdis" (a group more recently calling itself "al-Dawlat al-Islamiya", as of late 2014) is a known affiliate of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, active in the Gaza Strip.

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Shining Path

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Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries

The Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries (مجلس شورى ثوار بنغازي, Majlis Shura Thuwar Benghazi) is a military coalition in Benghazi composed of Islamist and jihadist militias, including Ansar al-Sharia, Libya Shield 1, and several other groups.

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Sidama Liberation Front

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Sindhudesh Liberation Army

The Sindhudesh Liberation Army (Also Known as Sindh Liberation Army or SLA) is an organisation based in the Sindh province of Pakistan comparable to the Balochistan Liberation Army in terms of is objectives strives to establish an independent state of Sindhu Desh.

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Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan

Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP — Guardians of the Prophet's Companions), now renamed Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, is a Deobandi Muslim organisation in Pakistan, which also functioned as a political party.

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Soldiers of Egypt

Soldiers of Egypt (Ajnad Misr in Arabic) is an active Salafist Islamist militant group that has been operating near Cairo, Egypt.

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Somali Civil War (2009–present)

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South Kordofan

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South Sudan Democratic Movement

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South Sudan Liberation Movement

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South Sudanese Civil War

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Southern Front (Syrian rebel group)

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Southern Movement

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Sovereign state

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Students Islamic Movement of India

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Sudan

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Sudan Liberation Movement/Army

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Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition

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Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North

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Sudan Revolutionary Front

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Sudanese Awakening Revolutionary Council

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Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile

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Sultanate of Sulu

The Sultanate of Sulu (Tausūg: Kasultanan sin Sūg, Jawi: کسلطانن سولو دار الإسلام, Kesultanan Sulu, سلطنة سولك) was a Muslim state that ruled the islands in the Sulu Archipelago, parts of Mindanao, certain portions of Palawan and north-eastern Borneo (present-day the certain parts of Sabah and North Kalimantan).

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Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation

The Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation (a.k.a. Supreme Council of Jihad and Liberation or SCJL or Ba'athist Loyalists) is an Iraqi front comprising some 23 militia groups formed in October 2007 and led by former Iraqi vice president and deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri.

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Supreme Military Council (Syria)

The Supreme Military Council (SMC) (المجلس العسكري الأعلى, also called the Supreme Military Command) was the highest military leadership of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) from late 2012 to at least mid-2014.

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Supreme Political Council

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Sutoro

The Syriac Security Office (Mawtbo d'Sutoro Suryoyo, سوتورو), commonly known as the Sutoro or the Sutoro Police, is an ethnic Assyrian, Syriac-Christian police force in Jazira Canton of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria in Syria, where it works in concert with the general Asayish police force of the canton with the mission to police ethnic Assyrian areas and neighbourhoods.

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Sword of al-Sham Brigades

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Syriac Military Council

The Syriac Military Council (translit, MFS for short; المجلس العسكري السرياني السوري) is an Assyrian/Syriac military organisation in Syria.

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Syrian Civil War

The Syrian Civil War (الحرب الأهلية السورية, Al-ḥarb al-ʼahliyyah as-sūriyyah) is an ongoing multi-sided armed conflict in Syria fought primarily between the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic led by President Bashar al-Assad, along with its allies, and various forces opposing both the government and each other in varying combinations.

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Syrian Interim Government

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Syrian Martyrs' Brigades

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Syrian opposition

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Syrian Revolutionaries Front

The Syrian Revolutionaries Front (جبهة ثوار سوريا, Jabhat Thowar Suriya, SRF, also translated Syrian Rebel Front) is, according to Lebanon's Daily Star, an alliance of 14 relatively moderate Islamist and some secular armed groups fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, formed in December 2013, thus according to Arutz Sheva further sidelining the FSA and its leadership Supreme Military Council.

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Syrian Turkmen Brigades

Syrian Turkmen Brigades (Suriye Türkmen Tugayları), also called the United Turkmen Army (Birleşik Türkmen Ordusu), are an informal armed opposition structure composed of Syrian Turkmen and Turks that form the military wing of the Syrian Turkmen Assembly, primarily fighting against the Syrian Armed Forces, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Syrian Democratic Forces.

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Taliban

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TASS

Russian News Agency TASS (Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii TASS), abbr.

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Tawhid Kata’ib Horan

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Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi

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Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP; تحریک طالبان پاکستان; "Taliban Movement of Pakistan"), alternatively referred to as the Taliban, is a terrorist group which is an umbrella organization of various militant groups based in the northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the Afghan border in Pakistan.

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Telangana

Telangana is a state in the south of India.

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The Black Eagles

Black Eagles (Águilas Negras) was a term describing a series of Colombian drug trafficking, right-wing, counter-revolutionary, paramilitary organizations made up of new and preexisting paramilitary forces, who emerged from the failures of the demobilization process between 2004 and 2006, which aimed to disarm the United Self-Defense Units of Colombia (AUC).

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Toubou Front for the Salvation of Libya

The Toubou Front for the Salvation of Libya (جبهة التبو لإنقاذ ليبيا; Front Toubou pour la Salut de la Libye) is a group created in mid-2007 to defend the rights and interests of the Toubou people in Libya.

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Turkish Hezbollah

Turkish Hezbollah (TH) (Türk Hızbullahı), also known as the Kurdish Hezbollah (Hizbullahî Kurdî) or just Hizbullah in Turkey,Aslı Aydıntaşbaş,, Middle East Quarterly, June 2000, pp.

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Turkish Islamic Jihad

The Turkish Islamic Jihad (TIJ) is an Islamic Jihad organization.

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Turkistan Islamic Party

The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP, الحزب الإسلامي التركستاني) or Turkistan Islamic Movement (TIM), formerly known as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and other names, is an Islamic extremist terrorist organization founded by Uyghur jihadists in western China.

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Union of Congolese Patriots

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Union of Democratic Forces for Unity

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United Jihad Council

The United Jihad Council, also known as the Muttahida Jihad Council (MJC), is an umbrella organisation formed by the Pakistan Army for unified command and control over the anti-Indian militant groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir.

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United Liberation Front of Assam

The United Liberation Front of Assam (সংযুক্ত মুক্তি বাহিনী, অসমভুমি) is a separatist outfit operating in Assam, North East India for the Indigenous Assamese people.

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United Nationalities Federal Council

The United Nationalities Federal Council (ညီညွတ်သောတိုင်းရင်းသားလူမျိုးများဖက်ဒရယ်ကောင်စီ; abbreviated UNFC) is a coalition of five opposition groups in Myanmar.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

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United States Department of State

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United Vilayat of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachay

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United Wa State Army

The United Wa State Army (ဝပြည် သွေးစည်းညီညွတ်ရေး တပ်မတော်,; abbreviated UWSA), also abbreviated as the UWS Army, is the military wing of the United Wa State Party (UWSP), the de facto ruling party of Wa State (officially known as the Wa Self-Administered Division).

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United Wa State Party

The United Wa State Party (ဝပြည် သွေးစည်း ညီညွတ်ရေး ပါတီ; abbreviated UWSP) is a political organisation in Myanmar (Burma), which campaigns for the interests of the Wa people.

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Unity State

Unity, sometimes known as Western Upper Nile, was one of the 10 states of South Sudan.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh (IAST: Uttar Pradeś) is a state in northern India.

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Vilayat Galgaycho

Vilayat Galgaycho (Province of Ingushetia, Вилайят Галгайче) is an Islamist militant organization connected to numerous attacks against the local and federal security forces in the Russian regions of Ingushetia and Chechnya in the North Caucasus.

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Vilayat Nokhchicho

The Province of Nokhchicho (Vilayat Noxçiyçö, Вилаят Нохчийчоь) is the Chechen-based wing of the Caucasus Emirate organisation.

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Violent non-state actor

In international relations violent non-state actors (VNSA) (also known as non-state armed actors or non-state armed groups) are individuals and groups which are wholly or partly independent of state governments and which threaten or use violence to achieve their goals.

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Wa National Organisation

The Wa National Organisation (ဝအမျိုးသားအစည်းအရုံး; WNA) is a political organisation in Shan State, Myanmar.

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Wa Self-Administered Division

The Wa Self-Administered Division (ဝ ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ တိုင်း) is an autonomous self-administered division in Myanmar (Burma).

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War

War is a state of armed conflict between states, societies and informal groups, such as insurgents and militias.

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War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

The War in Afghanistan (or the U.S. War in Afghanistan; code named Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan (2001–2014) and Operation Freedom's Sentinel (2015–present)) followed the United States invasion of Afghanistan of October 7, 2001.

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War in Donbass

The War in Donbass is an armed conflict in the Donbass region of Ukraine.

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War in North-West Pakistan

The War in North-West Pakistan, also known as the War in Waziristan, is an armed conflict involving Pakistan, and armed militant groups such as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Jundallah, Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI), TNSM, al-Qaeda, and their Central Asian allies such as the ISIL–Khorasan (ISIL), Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, East Turkistan Movement, Emirate of Caucasus, and elements of organized crime.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Paśchimbāṅga) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.

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Women's Protection Units

The Women's Protection Units or Women's Defense Units (Yekîneyên Parastina Jin, YPJ, pronounced Yuh-Pah-Juh; Wahdat Himayat al-Mar'a; Ḥdoywotho d'Sutoro d'Neshe) is an all-female military organization.

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Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade

The Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade (لواء شهداء اليرموك) was a rebel group in southern Syria during the Syrian Civil War.

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YDG-H

The Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (Tevgera Ciwanen Welatparêz Yên Şoreşger, Yurtsever Devrimci Gençlik Hareket, YDG-H) is the urban, militant youth wing of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

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Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)

The Yemeni Civil War is an ongoing conflict that began in 2015 between two factions, each claiming to constitute the Yemeni government, along with their supporters and allies.

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Youth of Sunna Forces

The Youth of Sunna Forces, formerly the Youth of Sunna Division and the Youth of Sunna Brigade, is a Syrian rebel group affiliated with the Free Syrian Army's Southern Front that was armed with U.S.-made BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles.

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Zapatista Army of National Liberation

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN), often referred to as the Zapatistas, is a left-wing revolutionary political and militant group based in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico.

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Zintan Brigades

The Zintan Brigades are Government of National Accord-funded armed units linked to the town of Zintan and its surrounding area.

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13th Division (Syrian rebel group)

The 13th Division (الفرقة 13) is a Syrian rebel group sanctioned by the Syrian National Council.

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18 March Division

The 18 March Division (فرقة 18 آذار) is a rebel group part of the Free Syrian Army that is active during the Syrian Civil War.

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1st Coastal Division

The 1st Coastal Division, formerly known as the Brigade of the Chargers (لواء العاديات), is a Syrian rebel group that is affiliated with the Free Syrian Army and has been vetted by the Friends of Syria Group. It received TOW missiles and operates in the Idlib and northern Latakia governorates. The group received training and funding from Qatar. It is a former member of the Ahfad al-Rasul Brigades.

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21st Combined Force (Syrian rebel group)

The 21st Combined Force (تجمع القوة 21), formerly called the 101st Infantry Division (الفرقة 101 مشاة) and the 33rd Infantry Division (الفرقة 33 مشاة), is a Syrian rebel group affiliated with the Free Syrian Army, sanctioned by the Syrian National Council, and part of the Syrian Revolutionary Command Council.

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List of active rebel groups in Syria, List of insurgent groups, List of rebel groups, List of rebel groups controlling territory, List of rebel groups that control territory, Rebel Armies.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_rebel_groups

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