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{{Short description|none}} {{More citations needed|date=September 2022}} {{Incomplete list|date=March 2013}} This is a list of notable [[guerrilla movements]]. It gives their English name, common acronym, and main country of operation. == Latin America == ===Argentina=== *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Tacuara Nationalist Movement.svg}}[[Tacuara Nationalist Movement]] (Movimiento Nacionalista Tacuara – MNT) (1955–1966) *[[Justicialist National Militia]] (Milicia Nacional Justicialista – MNJ) (1955–1966) *[[File:Logo_de_las_FAP.jpg|20px]] [[Peronist Armed Forces]] (Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas – FAP) (1968–1971) *{{Flagicon image|Bandera del ERP.svg}} [[People's Revolutionary Army (Argentina)|People's Revolutionary Army]] (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo – ERP) (1969–1976) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Montoneros.svg}} [[Montoneros]] (Movimiento Peronista Montonero – MPM) (1970–1981) * [[Resistencia Libertaria|Libertarian Resistance]] (Resistencia Libertaria – RL) (1974–1978) * [[Revolutionary Cells (Argentina)|Revolutionary Cells]] (Células Revolucionarias – CR) (2009–2011) * [[Vandalika Teodoro Suárez Gang]] (Pandilla Vandalika Teodoro Suárez – PVTS) (2010–2011) * [[Friends of the Earth (Argentina)|Friends of the Earth]] (Amigxs de la Tierra – AdlT/FAI) (2011–2014) ===Bolivia=== * [[Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation]] (FALZW) * [[Ñancahuazú Guerrilla]] (ELN) * [[Néstor Paz Zamora Commission]] (CNPZ) * [[Túpac Katari Guerrilla Army]] (EGTK) * [[Anarchic Cell For Revolutionary Solidarity]] (CASR) * [[Revolutionary Left Movement (Bolivia)|Revolutionary Left Movement]] ===Brazil=== *[[8th October Revolutionary Movement]] (Movimento Revolucionário Oito de Outubro – MR8) (1964–1985) *[[National Liberation Action]] (Ação Libertadora Nacional – ALN) (1964–1974) *[[Palmares Armed Revolutionary Vanguard]] (Vanguarda Armada Revolucionária Palmares – VAR PALMARES) (1969–1972) *[[Revolutionary People's Vanguard]] (Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária - VPR) (1966-1971) *[[National Liberation Command]] (Comando de Libertação Nacional - COLINA) (1967–1969) *[[Araguaia guerrilla]] (Guerrilha do Araguaia) (1966–1975) *[[Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (Brazil)]] (Movimento Nacionalista Revolucionário - MNR) (1966–1967) *[[Prestes Column]] (Coluna Prestes) (1925–1927) ===Chile=== * [[File:Movimiento_de_Izquierda_Revolucionaria_(Chile).svg|20px]] [[Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile)|Revolutionary Left Movement]] (MIR) (1965–1987) * {{flagicon image|Bandera_del_MAPU,_partit_xilè.svg}} [[Lautaro Youth Movement]] (MJL) (1982–1994) * {{flagicon image|FPMR_Chile.SVG}} [[Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front]] (FPMR) (1983–1997) * [[Leon Czolgosz Autonomous and Destructive Forces]] (FADLC) (2006–2009) * {{flagicon image|Bandera_de_las_FAR.png}} [[Revolutionary Anarchist Front]] (FAR) (2007–2009) * [[Severino di Giovanni Antipatriot Band]] (BASG) (2007–2012) * [[Jean Marc Rouillan Armed and Heartless Columns]] (CAD-JMR) (2008–2012) * [[Iconoclastic Caravans for Free Will]] (CIPLA) (2009–2012) * [[Efraín Plaza Olmedo Dynamite Band]] (BDEPO) (2009–2013) * [[File:Logo_Weichan_Auka_Mapu.jpg|20px]] [[Weichán Auka Mapu]] (WAM) (2011–present) * {{flagicon image|Logo_de_las_NANGU.svg}} [[Antagonic Nuclei of the New Urban Guerrilla]] (NANGU) (2011–present) ===Colombia=== *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the FARC-EP.svg}} [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia]] (FARC) (1964–2016) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of ELN.svg}} [[National Liberation Army (Colombia)|National Liberation Army]] (ELN) (1964–present) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of M-19.svg}} [[19th of April Movement]] (M–19) (1970–1990) * [[Guevarista Revolutionary Army]] (1992–2008) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of EPL.svg}} [[Popular Liberation Army]] (1967–present) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the CGSB.svg}} [[Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordinating Board]] (1987–1990s) * [[Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame]] (1984–1991) * [[Indigenous Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Pacific]] * Brigada Clandestina Anarquista (BCA) ===Cuba=== *{{Flagicon image|Bandera_del_Directorio_Revolucionario_Estudiantil.svg}} [[Revolutionary Directorate of 13 March Movement]] (DR-13-M) (1954–1966) *{{Flagicon image|M-26-7.svg}} [[26th of July Movement]] (M-26-7) (1955–1962) *{{Flagicon image|Flag_of_the_Revolutionary_Directorate.svg}} [[Second National Front of Escambray]] (SFNE) (1959–1964) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Brigade 2506.svg}} [[Brigade 2506]] (1960–1962) *{{Flagicon image|Flag_of_Alpha_66.svg}} [[Alpha 66]] (1961–present) ===El Salvador=== * [[Communist Party of El Salvador]] (PCS) (1930–1992) *{{Flagicon image|The flag of the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí (FPL).svg}} [[Farabundo Martí Liberation People's Forces]] (FPL) (1970–1992) *{{Flagicon image|Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional.svg}} [[Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front]] (FMLN) (1980–1992) *{{Flagicon image|The flag of the Resistencia Nacional (RN).svg}} [[Resistencia Nacional|National Resistance]] (RN) (1975–1992) * [[People's Revolutionary Army (El Salvador)|People's Revolutionary Army]] (ERP) (1972–1992) ===Mexico=== * [[People's Guerrilla Group]] (GPG) (1963–1965) *[[File:Partido de los Pobres.png|18px]] [[Party of the Poor (Mexico)|Party of the Poor]] (PdlP) (1967–1974) *{{Flagicon image|Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, Flag.svg}} [[Zapatista Army of National Liberation]] (EZLN) (1994–present) *{{Flagicon image|Mx-epr.gif}} [[Popular Revolutionary Army]] (EPR) (1996–present) *{{Flagicon image|Logo_de_las_CARI-PGG.png}} [[Práxedis G. Guerrero Autonomous Cells of Immediate Revolution]] (CARI-PGG) (2009–2014) * [[Mariano Sánchez Añón Insurrectional Cell]] (CI-MSA) (2010–2014) ===Paraguay=== *{{Flagicon image|Insignia del EPP.svg}} [[Paraguayan People's Army]] (EPP) (2008–present) * [[United National Liberation Front (Paraguay)|United National Liberation Front]] (FULNA) (1960–1970) ===Peru=== * [[National Liberation Army (Peru)|National Liberation Army]] (ELN) (1962–1965) *{{Flagicon image|Peru MIR flag.jpg}} [[Revolutionary Left Movement (Peru)|Revolutionary Left Movement]] (MIR) (1962–1965) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Sendero Luminoso.svg}} [[Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path)]] (PCP (SL)) (1980–present) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Militarized Communist Party of Peru.svg}} [[Militarized Communist Party of Peru]] (MPCP) (1992–present) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the MRTA.svg}} [[Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement]] (MRTA) (1982–1997) *{{Flagicon image|Bandera de los Tercios Nacionalsocialistas De Nueva Castilla.jpg}} [[National Socialist Tercios of New Castile]] (2004–2009) ===Venezuela=== *{{Flagicon image|Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (Venezuela).svg}}[[Armed Forces of National Liberation (Venezuela)|FALN]] * {{Flagicon image|}}[[Bolivarian Forces of Liberation]] *{{Flagicon image|Bandera Roja (Venezuela).svg}} [[Red Flag Party|Bandera Roja]] *{{Flagicon image| }}[[Revolutionary Left Movement (Venezuela)|Revolutionary Left Movement]] ===Others Countries=== *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity.svg}} [[Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity]] (URNG) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the FSLN.svg}} [[Sandinista National Liberation Front]] (FSLN) – [[Nicaragua]] * [[Jungle Commando]] – [[Suriname]] * [[Contras]] – [[Nicaragua]] * [[Morazanist Patriotic Front]] – [[Honduras]] *{{Flagicon image|Bandera dels Tupamaros.svg}} [[Tupamaros]] Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Tupamaros – [[Uruguay]] *[[National Union of Freedom Fighters]] (NUFF) May 1972 – November 1974 – [[Trinidad and Tobago]] == North America == * [[Atomwaffen Division]] – Anti-government neo-Nazi terrorist group * [[Black Liberation Army]] – United States * [[Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance]] – [[Guadeloupe]] * [[Earth Liberation Front]] – United States * MEChA's [[Brown Berets]] (paramilitary security force) – United States – "Border War" ===Historical=== *{{Flagicon image|Symbionese Liberation Army Flag.svg}} [[Symbionese Liberation Army]] – United States * [[Weather Underground]] – United States * [[Port7Alliance]] – United States * [[Black Panther Party]] – United States * [[Quantrill's Raiders]] led by [[William Quantrill]] – United States *{{Flagicon image|Bandera FLQ.svg}} [[Front de libération du Québec]] – Canada * [[Squamish Five|Direct Action]] – Canada, Know by the media as Squamish Five. An [[Anarchist]] and [[Feminist]] self styled urban guerrilla group. * [[The Order (white supremacist group)|The Order]]—United States *{{Flagicon image|Official Three Percent Flag.svg}} [[3 Percenters]] – United States == Europe == === Cyprus === [[Cyprus Emergency]] – [[Cyprus]] *{{Flagicon image|EOKA flag.svg}} [[EOKA|National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters]] (EOKA) during Cyprus Emergency – Cyprus * [[EOKA-B|National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters-B]] (EOKA-B) during [[Cypriot intercommunal violence]] and [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] – [[Cyprus]] * [[Turkish Resistance Organisation]] (TMT) during [[Cypriot intercommunal violence]] and [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] – Cyprus ===Germany=== * [[Tupamaros West-Berlin]] (TW) (1969–1970) * [[Red Army Faction]] (RAF) (1970–1998) – known also as Baader-Meinhof Gang * {{flagicon_image|Anarchist_flag.svg}} [[2 June Movement]] (1972–1980) * [[Revolutionary Cells (German group)|Revolutionary Cells]] (RZ) (1973–1995) * [[Nationalist Front (Germany)|National Task Force]] (NEK) (1991) * [[Anti-Imperialist Cell]] (AIZ) (1992-1995) * [[National Socialist Underground]] (NSU) (1999–2007) ===Ireland=== * [[Continuity Irish Republican Army]] (CIRA) (1986–present) *{{Flagicon image|Starry Plough flag (with fringe).svg}} [[Irish Citizen Army]] (1913–1947) *{{Flagicon image|Banner_of_the_Blueshirts.svg}} [[Blueshirts|Army Comrades Association]] (ACA) (1932–1935) *[[Irish People's Liberation Organization]] (1986–1992) *{{Flagicon image|StarryPlough.svg}} [[Irish National Liberation Army]] (INLA) (1974–2009/present) *[[Official Irish Republican Army]] (1969–1990s) *[[Oglaigh na hEireann (CIRA splinter group)]] (2009–present) * [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] (IRA) (1969–1998) * [[Real Irish Republican Army]] (RIRA) (1998–present) ===Spain=== *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Basque Country.svg}} [[ETA (separatist group)|Basque Fatherland and Liberty]] (ETA) (1959–2017) *{{Flagicon image|Bandera del GRAPO.svg}} [[First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups]] (GRAPO) (1975–2007) *{{Flagicon image|Moviment Patriòtic Català.png}} [[Milícia Catalana]] (1976–1990s) *{{Flagicon image|Estelada roja.svg}} [[Terra Lliure|Free Land]] (TL) (1978–1991) * [[Exército Guerrilheiro do Povo Galego Ceive|Guerrilla Army of the Free Galician People]] (EGPGC) (1986–1991) *{{Flagicon image|Frente Revolucionario Antifascista y Patriota (bandera).svg}} [[Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front]] (FRAP) (1973–1978) * [[Loita Armada Revolucionaria|Revolutionary Armed Struggle]] (LAR) (1978–1984) ===Other=== *{{Flagicon image|Action Directe.svg}} [[Action directe (armed group)|Action Directe]] (AD) – France *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Democratic Army of Greece.svg}} [[Democratic Army of Greece]], Communist partisans during the [[Greek Civil War]] – Greece * [[National Liberation Army (Albanians of Macedonia)|National Liberation Army]] – [[North Macedonia]] * [[Albanian National Army]] – [[North Macedonia]], [[Kosovo]], [[Serbia]], [[Montenegro]], [[Greece]]<ref>During 2007</ref> * [[Kosovo Liberation Army]] (KLA) – [[Kosovo]] * [[Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac]] – [[Serbia]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.svg}} [[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria|Chechen]] guerrillas under nominal leadership of [[Aslan Maskhadov]] (who is now deceased) – [[Chechnya]] * [[Popular United Front of Revolutionary Guerrilla]] (FUPGR) - [[Italy]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Brigate Rosse.svg}} [[Red Brigades]] (BR, later split, BR-PCC and BR-UCC largest factions) – Italy * [[Lisowczycy]] (Polish) * [[Snapphane|Snapphane Movement]] – Sweden, pro-Danish partisans that fought against the Swedes in the 17th century. *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Spain (1785–1873, 1875–1931).svg}} {{Flagicon image|Flag of Portugal (1750).svg}} [[Guerrilla warfare in the Peninsular War]] (Spain, Portugal) *{{flagicon|Two Sicilies}} [[Brigandage in Southern Italy after 1861|Briganti]] (Italy) *{{Flagicon image|Socialist red flag.svg}} [[Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party]] ([[Congress Poland]], particularly active during the [[Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland (1905–1907)|Polish events]] of the [[1905 Russian Revolution]]) *{{Flagicon image|Starry Plough flag (with fringe).svg}} [[Irish Republican Army (1917–22)|Irish Republican Army]] – Ireland (prior to the establishment of an independent state of Ireland) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Turkey.svg}} [[Kuva-yi Milliye]] during [[Turkish War of Independence]] – [[Turkey]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the IMRO.svg}} [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization]] – [[Macedonia (region)]]* * [[Resistance during World War II|World War II Resistance movement]]s in various countries, many sponsored by the [[Allied Powers (World War II)|Allied governments]]: ** [[Soviet partisans]] in the [[Axis powers|Axis]]-occupied territories during World War II **{{Flagicon image|ELAS flag.svg}} [[Greek People's Liberation Army]] (ELAS) – Greece ** {{flagicon image|Flag of Germany (1867–1918).svg}} ''[[National Committee for a Free Germany|Freies Deutschland]]'' – German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union and Germany ([[East Prussia]], [[Cologne]]) **{{Flagicon image|Flaga PPP.svg}} [[Polish resistance movement in World War II]] (many of these groups were a part of the [[Polish Underground State]], the large guerrilla movement that initiated the [[Warsaw Uprising]], as well as some other anti-Nazi partisan-warfare-based actions like the [[Zamość Uprising]], the [[Battle of Osuchy]], the [[Raid on Mittenheide]], [[Operation Tempest]], or [[Operation Heads]]). *** [[Henryk Dobrzański]] (Polish – the first guerrilla commander of the Second World War in Europe) *** {{Flagicon image|Flaga PPP.svg}} [[Home Army|Armia Krajowa (Home Army)]] (Polish) *** Leśni *** [[Silent Unseen]] *** [[Battalion Zośka]] *** {{Flagicon image|Green flag with symbol of falanga.svg}} [[Uderzeniowe Bataliony Kadrowe]] *** [[National Armed Forces]] *** {{Flagicon image|Banner of the Farmer Battalions (Stronnictwo Ludowe Roch).svg}} [[Bataliony Chłopskie]] (Polish) *** {{Flagicon image|Psz.png}} [[People's Army (Poland)|Armia Ludowa]] (communist-ruled Poland) *** [[Bielski partisans]] (Jewish) *** [[Parczew partisans]] (Jewish) **{{Flagicon image|Flag of Yugoslavia (1943–1946).svg}} [[Yugoslav Partisans]] – [[Democratic Federal Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] ** {{Flagicon image|Chetniks Flag.svg}} [[Chetniks]] – [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] * [[Anti-Soviet partisans]] and pro-Axis partisans ** [[Forest Brothers]] – [[Estonia]]/[[Latvia]]/[[Lithuania]] (World War II–1952 approx.) ** {{flagicon image|Werwolfwimpel.svg}} [[Werwolf]] – [[Germany]] ** [[Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1953)]] – [[Poland]] *** [[Cursed soldiers]] **{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.svg}} [[Ukrainian Insurgent Army]] (UPA) – [[Ukraine]] == Africa == * {{Flagicon image|Flag of the Republic of the Rif.svg}} [[Republic of the Rif]]– [[Morocco]] [[Battle of Annual]] Abd el-Krim's [[guerrilla]] tactics influenced [[Ho Chi Minh]], [[Mao Zedong]], and [[Che Guevara]]. *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the African National Congress.svg}} [[Umkhonto we Sizwe]] (MK) – [[South Africa]] (armed wing of the [[African National Congress]]) *{{flagicon|Ambazonia}} [[Ambazonia Defence Forces]] – [[Southern Cameroons]]/[[Cameroon]] (armed wing of the [[Ambazonia Governing Council]]) *{{flagicon|Ambazonia}}[[Ambazonia Restoration Forces]] (ARF) – [[Southern Cameroon]]/[[Ambazonia]] (armed wing of the [[Interim Government of Ambazonia]] /IG) *{{flagicon|Ambazonia}} [[Southern Cameroons Defence Forces]] – Southern Cameroons/Cameroon (armed wing of the [[African People's Liberation Movement]]) *{{flagicon|Ambazonia}} [[Ambazonia Self-Defence Council]] – Southern Cameroons/Cameroon (umbrella organization consisting of armed groups loyal to the [[Interim Government of Ambazonia]]) * [[Kenya Land and Freedom Army]] (KLFA or Mau Mau) – [[Kenya]] *{{Flagicon image|Bandeira da FNLA.svg}} [[National Liberation Front of Angola]] (FNLA) – [[Angola]] (nationalist guerrillas who first fought the Portuguese and later Angola's communist led regime) *{{Flagicon image|Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (bandeira).svg}} [[Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola]] (MPLA) – [[Angola]] (communist guerrillas who fought Portuguese rule and later established a Marxist regime) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of UNITA.svg}} [[UNITA|National Union for the Total Independence of Angola]] (UNITA) – [[Angola]] (anti-communist guerrillas backed by the United States and Apartheid South Africa. [[Angolan Civil War]]) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Eritrea (1952-1961).svg}} [[Eritrean Liberation Front]] (ELF) – [[Eritrea]] * [[Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy]] (LURD) – [[Liberia]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Western Sahara.svg}} [[Polisario Front|Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro]] (POLISARIO) – [[Western Sahara]] *{{Flagicon image|Zimbabwe African People's Union flag.svg}} [[Zimbabwe African People's Union]] – [[Rhodesia]]/[[Zimbabwe]]. * [[FRELIMO|Mozambican Liberation Front]] (FRELIMO) – [[Mozambique]] (communist guerrillas who won independence from Portugal and established a Marxist regime) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of RENAMO (3rd version).png}} [[RENAMO|Mozambican National Resistance]] (RENAMO) – [[Mozambique]] (anti-communist guerrillas, supported by Rhodesia and South Africa, who fought in the [[Mozambican Civil War]]) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of South West Africa People's Organisation.svg}} [[SWAPO|South-West Africa People's Organization]] (SWAPO) – [[Namibia]] (an independence movement that fought South African rule during the Apartheid era) * [[Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta]] (MEND) – [[Nigeria]] * [[Lesotho Liberation Army]] (LLA) – [[Lesotho]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag red yellow 5x3.svg}} [[Lord's Resistance Army]] (LRA) – [[Uganda]] * [[Uganda People's Democratic Army]] – [[Uganda]] * [[National Resistance Army]] – [[Uganda]] *{{Flagicon image|}} [[Azanian People's Liberation Army]] (earlier known as Poqo) – [[South Africa]] (armed wing of the [[Pan Africanist Congress of Azania|PAC]]) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging.svg}} [[Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging]] (AWB) – [[South Africa]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia.png}} [[Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Oromo Liberation Front.svg}} [[Oromo Liberation Front]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the SPLA (2011 to present).svg}} [[Sudan People's Liberation Army]] – SPLA. South Sudanese based rebel group that fought against the Islamist and Arab dominated regime in Khartoum during the [[Second Sudanese Civil War]]. They now control the independent nation of [[South Sudan]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Darfur.svg}} [[Sudan Liberation Movement/Army]] *{{Flagicon image|JEM Logo June 2013.jpg}} [[Justice and Equality Movement]] * [[Janjaweed]] * [[Niger Movement for Justice]] * [[Patriotic Liberation Front]] (FPL) - [[Niger]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Libya (1977–2011).svg}} [[Green Resistance]] – Gaddafi supporters in Libya post–2011 *{{Flagicon image|Flagge FDLR.svg}} [[Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda]] or FDLR – Successor to ALiR, Hutu extremists *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Rwanda (1962–2001).svg}} [[Army for the Liberation of Rwanda]] or ALiR – Hutu nationalists who fled Rwanda after the 1994 Genocide and took up arms in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo *{{Flagicon image|Flag of South Sudan.svg}} [[Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition]] or SPLM-IO (South Sudanese rebels fighting the SPLM led government since 2013. [[South Sudanese Civil War]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997-2003).svg}} [[Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire]] or the AFDL. These were anti-Mobutu rebels in the former [[Zaire]] during the [[First Congo War]] * [[Rally for Congolese Democracy]] – RCD, anti-government forces backed by Rwanda during the [[Second Congo War]] * [[Movement for the Liberation of Congo]] – anti-government forces backed by Uganda during the [[Second Congo War]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Somaliland until 1996.svg}} [[Somali National Movement]] (SNM) – [[Somaliland]] * [[Lakurawa]] - [[Nigeria]] * [[25 January Revolutionary Movement]] - [[Egypt]] == Asia == *{{flagicon image|Flag of Turkistan Islamic Party.svg}}[[East Turkistan Islamic Party|Turkistan Islamic Party]] (ETIP) – [[Xinjiang]], [[China]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Afghanistan (1992–2001).svg}} [[Northern Alliance]] – [[Afghanistan]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Taliban.svg}} [[Taliban]] – [[Afghanistan]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Jihad.svg}} [[Haqqani Network]] – [[Afghanistan]] * [[Jundallah (Iran)|Jundallah]] – [[Iran]]/[[Pakistan]] *{{Flagicon image|Free_Joseon_logo.png}} [[Free Joseon]] – [[North Korea]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of al-Qaeda.svg}} [[Al-Qaeda]] – has been based in [[Afghanistan]] * [[Mujahedin]] – (generic grouping) [[Central Asia]], [[Middle East]], [[Indian Subcontinent]], [[Southeast Asia]] *{{flagicon image|Morning Star flag.svg}} [[Free Papua Movement]] – Indonesia *{{Flagicon image|MNLF flag.svg}} [[Moro National Liberation Front]] (MNLF) – [[Philippines]] *{{flagicon image|Flag of Eastern Indonesian Mujahideen (Mujahidin Indonesia Timur).svg}} [[East Indonesia Mujahideen]] (MIT) – [[Indonesia]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.svg}} [[Moro Islamic Liberation Front]] (MILF, a break away group of the MNLF) – [[Philippines]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Communist Party of the Philippines (alternative II).svg}} [[New People's Army]] (NPA) – [[Philippines]] *{{Flagicon image|AQMI Flag asymmetric.svg}} [[Abu Sayyaf]] – [[Philippines]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Khmer National Unity Front.svg}} [[Khmer National Unity Front]] (KNUF) – [[Cambodia]] *{{Flagicon image|}} [[Cambodian Freedom Fighters]] (CFF) – [[Cambodia]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Lashkar-e-Taiba.svg}} [[Lashkar-e-Toiba]] – based in [[Pakistan]] *{{flagicon image|Flag of United Liberation Front of Asom.svg}} [[United Liberation Front of Asom]] – India/Bangladesh *{{Flagicon image|Balochistan Flag.svg}} [[Balochistan Liberation Army]] – [[Pakistan]] *[[Baluch Liberation Front|Balochistan Liberation Front – Pakistan]] *[[Baloch Nationalist Army]] – [[Pakistan]] * * * * * *[[Kurdistan Free Life Party|PJAK]]-[[Kurdistan Workers' Party|PKK]] —[[Kurdistan]] *{{Flagicon image|Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front flag.svg}} [[Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front]] – [[Kashmir]] *[[Hizbul Mujahideen]] – [[Kashmir]] *{{Flagicon image|Jaishi-e-Mohammed.svg}} [[Jaish-e-Mohammed]] – [[Pakistan]] *{{Flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} [[Naxalite]] Movement – [[India]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).svg}} [[People's Liberation Army, Nepal]] – [[Nepal]] *{{Flagicon image|}} [[People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (India)]] — [[India]] (Andhra Pradesh) ===Historical=== *{{Flagicon image|Chushi Gangdruk-flag.svg}} [[Chushi Gangdruk]] – [[Tibet]], [[China]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Chinese Communist Party.svg}} [[Chinese Communist Party]] – [[China]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Laos.svg}} [[Pathet Lao]] – [[Laos]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Katipunan.svg}} [[Katipunan]] (KKK) – [[Philippines]] * [[Righteous army]] – [[Korea]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag_of_the_Workers'_Party_of_South_Korea.svg}} [[Partisans in the Korean War|Korean People's Guerrilla Army]] – [[Korea]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Democratic Kampuchea.svg}} [[Khmer Rouge]] – [[Cambodia]] *{{Flagicon image|FNL Flag.svg}} [[Vietcong|National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam]] (NLF) – [[Vietnam]] *{{Flagicon image|Hukbalahap flag.svg}} [[Hukbalahaps]] – [[Philippines]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of FRETILIN (East Timor).svg}} [[Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor]] (FRETILIN) East-Timor *{{Flagicon image|Flag of North Vietnam (1945-1955).svg}} [[Viet Minh]] – [[Vietnam]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Communist Party of Malaya.svg}} [[Communist Party of Malaya]] – [[Federation of Malaya|Malaya]]/[[Malaysia]] * [[Shivaji]] – [[India]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Free Aceh Movement.svg}} [[Free Aceh Movement]] – [[Aceh]], [[Indonesia]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Afghanistan (1929).svg}} [[Saqqawists]] – [[Kingdom of Afghanistan]] *{{Flagicon image|}} [[People's Liberation Guerrilla Army]] (Andhra Pradesh) – [[India]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Mukti Bahini-DeFacto.svg}} [[Mukti Bahini]] - [[East Pakistan|East Pakistan (Bangladesh)]] *{{Flagicon image|Tamil Tiger flag.png}} [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]] (Tamil Tigers) – [[Sri Lanka]] ==Middle East== *{{flagicon image|Flag of the Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria.svg}} [[Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria]] (TIP-S) – [[Syria]] * [[ The Islamic Resistance Front in Syria]] - [[Syria]] *[[Muqdad Coastal Shield Brigade]] - [[Syria]] *[[Irgun]] *[[Kurdistan Workers' Party|PKK]] — [[Kurdistan]] *[[Kurdistan Workers' Party|PKK]] - [[People's Defense Units|YPG]] — [[Kurdistan]] * *[[Kurdistan Workers' Party|PKK]] - [[Kurdistan Free Life Party|PJAK]] — [[Kurdistan]] *[[Lehi (militant group)|Lehi]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Ansar al-Islam.svg}} [[Ansar ul Islam (Western Africa)|Ansar al-Islam]] *[[Popular Resistance Committees]] * [[Hezbollah]] – [[Lebanon]] *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman.svg}} [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman]] * [[Front for the Liberation of the Golan]] – [[Syria]] ===Iran=== *[[Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas]] (IFPG) (1979–present) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of the People's Mujahedin of Iran.svg}} [[People's Mujahedin of Iran]] (MEK) (1965–present) * [[Union of Iranian Communists (Sarbedaran)]] (UIC (S)) (1976–2001) *[[Kurdistan Free Life Party|PJAK]]-[[Kurdistan Workers' Party|PKK]] ===Iraq=== *[[Guardians of Blood Brigades]] - [[Islamic Resistance in Iraq]] * [[Ya Ali Popular Formations]] ===Palestine=== *[[Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades]] (2000–present) *{{Flagicon image|Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Flag.svg}} [[Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (DFLP) (1968–present) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of al-Qassam Brigades.svg}} [[Hamas]] (1987–present) *{{Flagicon image|}} [[Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine|Palestinian Islamic Jihad]] (PIJ) (1987–present) *{{Flagicon image|Flag of Palestine.svg}} [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO) (1964–1993) *{{Flagicon image|}} [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] (PFLP) (1967–present) *[[ Mujahideen Brigades]] * [[Internationalists Brigades for the Palestinian Liberation]] ==See also== * [[List of guerrillas]] * [[Partisan (military)]] ==Further reading== * Kreiman, Guillermo (2024). "[[doi:10.1177/00223433231215751|Revolutionary days: Introducing the Latin American Guerrillas Dataset]]". ''Journal of Peace Research''. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20020802194802/http://freelebanon.org/articles/a167.htm Complete List of Terrorist and Insurgency Groups Worldwide] (about 371 in all) {{DEFAULTSORT:Guerrilla movements}} [[Category:Guerrilla organizations| ]] [[Category:Lists of organizations|Guerrilla movements]]
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