Guerrilla organizations

revolutionary organization active in South Vietnam and Cambodia from 1960 to 1977

Vietnamese independence movement active from 1941 to 1951

Polish resistance movement in World War II German-occupied Poland

opposition faction in the Syrian Civil War

defunct Communist-led Yugoslav resistance against the Axis in WWII (1941-1945)

communist militant group founded by Fusako Shigenobu early in 1971 in Lebanon

The '''South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO ; , SWAVO; , SWAVO), officially known as the SWAPO Party of Namibia''', is a political party and former independence movement in Namibia (formerly South West Africa). Founded in 1960, it has been the governing party in Namibia since the country achieved independence in 1990. The party continues to be dominated in number and influence by the Ovambo ethnic group.

Palestinian Marxist–Leninist organization

group based in Mindanao, Philippines seeking an autonomous region of the Moro people

Armenian nationalist militant organization active from 1975 to the early 1990s

military organization

Syrian-based Palestinian nationalist organisation

political party

political party in Rwanda

militant group in northern Mali

political party

armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines

Militant organization that operated in the Republic of Macedonia in 2001

separatist militant organization active in Quebec from 1963 to 1971

Ukrainian political organisation

political group in the Philippines

Shabiha (Levantine Arabic: ', ; also romanized Shabeeha or Shabbiha'''; ) is a colloquial and generally derogatory term for various loosely-organised Syrian militias loyal to the Ba'athist government and the Assad family prior to the regime's collapse in 2024, used particularly during the initial phase of the Syrian civil war. As the war evolved, many groups that had previously been considered shabiha were amalgamated into the National Defence Force (NDF) and other paramilitary groups.

banned political party in Myanmar (Burma)

militant Sunni organization in Iran

Colombian guerrilla

German military and political organization operating in the Soviet Union during World War II

People's Liberation Front, a Sri Lankan Socialist Party

combatant organizations opposed to Nazi Germany

The '''Greek People's Liberation Army' (, Ellinikós Laïkós Apeleftherotikós Stratós; ELAS) was the military arm of the left-wing National Liberation Front (EAM) during the period of the Greek resistance until February 1945, when, following the Dekemvriana'' clashes and the Varkiza Agreement, it was disarmed and disbanded. ELAS was the largest and most significant of the military organizations of the Greek resistance.

armed forces of South Sudan, formerly Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) , founded 1983 as a guerrilla force

independence movement in Eritrea during the 1960s and 1970s

Montoneros (, MPM) was an Argentine far-left revolutionary guerilla organization which emerged in the 1970s during the "Argentine Revolution" dictatorship. The Montoneros advocated a composite ideology of Revolutionary Peronism, Falangism and Camilism, and were officially Roman Catholic. Its name was a reference to the 19th-century cavalry militias called Montoneras, which fought for the Federalist Party in the Argentine civil wars. Radicalized by the political repression of anti-Peronist regimes, the influence of the Cuban Revolution and liberation theology worker-priests, the Montoneros emer

Palestinian militants

military of the Libyan National Transitional Council

Sudanese opposition group

Darfuri rebel group

political party in Turkey

Military organization in Myanmar

Armenian militant organization active from 1975 to 1987

Atesh (; Russian and ) is a partisan armed movement in the occupied territories of Ukraine, as well as in the territory of Russia, created by Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars in September 2022 as a result of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine.

organization 1919–1922

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Kurdish armed faction

Poland's "Silent Unseen" warriors

political party

Iraqi Sunni insurgent group – 2003 to 2007

insurgent group in Shan State, Myanmar

political party

military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Polish resistance movement in World War II

Iraqi insurgent group

principal movement for the independence of the Casamance

anti-Nazi and anti-German fighting groups of Jews in World War II

Anarchist guerrilla from Rojava

Somali Islamist insurgent group

military wing of the NRM that waged the Ugandan Bush War (Luwero War) against the Ugandan government

militia involved in the Syrian civil war

A snapphane was a member of a 17th-century pro-Danish guerrilla organization, auxiliaries or paramilitary troops that fought against the Swedes in the Second Northern and Scanian Wars, primarily in the eastern former Danish provinces that had become southern Sweden in these wars. The term was a derogatory reference for those the Swedish authorities considered illegal combatants.

armed group during the Mexican Revolution

guerrilla armies in Japanese-occupied Manchuria