List of guerrilla movements
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This is a list of notable guerrilla movements. It gives their English name, common acronym, and main country of operation.
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Latin America
- Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) El Salvador
- Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG)
- Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) - Mexico
- Sandinista National Liberation Front - Nicaragua
- Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) or Zapatistas - Chiapas, Mexico
- Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) - Colombia
- ELN - Colombia
- Shining Path - Peru
- Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement MRTA - Peru
- Surinamese Liberation Army - Suriname
- Contras - Nicaragua
- Sandinistas - Nicaragua
- 19th of April Movement (M-19) - Colombia
- 26th of July Movement - Cuba
North America
Europe
- National Liberation Army - Albania
- Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) - Spain
- EOKA - Cyprus
- Kosovo Liberation Army - Kosovo or Yugoslavia
- Kosovo Republic Armed Forces (FARK) - Kosovo or Yugoslavia
- National Liberation Army - Yugoslavia
- Provisional IRA - Ireland
- Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) Ireland
- Ulster Defence Association - Northern Ireland
- Red Hand Defenders - Northern Ireland
- Continuity IRA - Ireland
- Real IRA - Ireland
- Chechen separatist guerrillas under nominal leadership of Aslan Maskhadov - Chechnya
Historic
- Metsavaennad "forest brethren" - Estonia (World War II)
- World War II Resistance movements in various countries, some sponsored by the United Kingdom government, other by Soviet Union;
- 'Old' IRA - Ireland (prior to the establishment of an independent state of Ireland)
- Chetniks - Yugoslavia
- Baader-Meinhof Gang - West Germany
- Lithuanian Resist (Forest Brothers) - Lithuania antisoviet partisan group after World War II
Africa
- African National Congress (ANC) - South Africa (political wing of MK)
- Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) - South Africa (armed wing of ANC)
- Mau Mau - Kenya
- UNITA - Angola
- Eritrean Liberation Front or ELF - Eritrea
- Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy or LURD - Liberia
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro or Polisario - Western Sahara or Morocco
- Zimbabwe African People's Union - Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
- Mozambican National Resistance or RENAMO - Mozambique
- South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) - Namibia
- Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) - Uganda
- Uganda People's Democratic Army - Uganda
Asia
- Northern Alliance - Afghanistan
- Taliban -- Afghanistan
- Al Qaeda -- has been based in Afghanistan (global Islamic militant network)
- Khmer Rouge - Cambodia
- Mujahedin - (generic grouping) Afghanistan, Middle East
- Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) East-Timor
- Pathet Lao - Laos
- Moro Islamic Liberation Front - Philippines
- Hukbalahaps - Philippines
- New People's Army (NPA) - Philippines
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) - Sri Lanka
Historic
- Communist Party of China - China
- National Liberation Front (NLF) - Vietnam
- Wingate's Raiders - Burma
Middle East
- Irgun - Israel
- Haganah- Israel
- Lehi (group)
- Black September
- Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
- Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
- Popular Resistance Committees
- Hamas
- Islamic Jihad
- Hezbollah
- Iraqi insurgency
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman
See also:
External link
- Complete List of Terrorist and Insurgency Groups Worldwide (http://freelebanon.org/articles/a167.htm) (about 371 in all)