List of guerrilla movements
This is a list of notable guerrilla movements. It gives their English name, common acronym, and main country of operation.
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
- National Liberation Army ELN - Colombia
- Shining Path - Peru
- Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement MRTA - Peru
- Surinamese Liberation Army - Suriname
- Contras - Nicaragua
- 19th of April Movement (M-19) - Colombia
- 26th of July Movement - Cuba
- Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation (FALZW)- Bolivia
- National Liberation Army (ELN) - Bolivia
- Nestor Paz Zamora Commission (CNPZ) - Bolivia
- Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (EGTK) - Bolivia
- Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front - (FPMR) Chile
- Revolutionary Guevarist Army - Colombia
- Bolivarian Forces of Liberation - Venezuela
North America
- Quantrill's Raiders led by William Quantrill - United States
- Black Liberation Army - United States
- Nation of Islam's paramiltary security force (Fruit of Islam) - United States
- MEChA's "Brownberets" (paramilitary security force) - United States - "Border War"
- Ku Klux Klan - United States
- Weather Underground- United States
- The Order - United States
Europe
- National Liberation Army - Albania
- Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) - Spain
- National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters - (EOKA) Cyprus
- Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) - Kosovo or Yugoslavia
- Kosovo Republic Armed Forces (FARK) - Kosovo or Yugoslavia
- Provisional IRA - Ireland
- Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) Ireland
- Ulster Defence Association (UDA) - Northern Ireland
- Red Hand Defenders - Northern Ireland
- Continuity IRA (CIRA) - Ireland
- Real IRA (IRA) - Ireland
- Chechen separatist guerrillas under nominal leadership of Aslan Maskhadov (who is now deceased) - Chechnya or Russia
Historic
- Meža brāļi antisoviet partisan group in Latvia after World War II
- Forest Brothers - Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania (World War II-1952 approx.)
- 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)
- Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (Chetniks) - Yugoslavia
- National Liberation Army (Partizans) - Yugoslavia
- Baader-Meinhof Gang - West Germany
- Lithuanian Resist (Forest Brothers) - Lithuania antisoviet partisan group after World War II
- Snapphane Movement - Scanian, pro-Danish partisans that fought against the Swedes in the 17th century.
Africa
- 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
- 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
- Kurdistan Workers Party -- Turkey
- Mujahedin - (generic grouping) Afghanistan, Middle East
- Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) East-Timor
- Pathet Lao - Laos
- Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) - Philippines
- Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF, a break away group of the MNLF) - Philippines
- Hukbalahaps - Philippines
- New People's Army (NPA) - Philippines
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) - Sri Lanka
- Lashkar-e-Tayiba -- based in Pakistan
Historic
- Chushi Gangdruk - Tibet, China
- Communist Party of China - China
- Katipunan-Philippines
- National Liberation Front (NLF) - Vietnam
- Wingate's Raiders - Burma
Middle East
- Irgun - Israel
- Haganah- Israel
- Lehi (group)
- Black September
- Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
- Ansar al-Islam
- Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
- Popular Resistance Committees
- Hamas
- Islamic Jihad
- Hezbollah
- Iraqi insurgency
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman
- Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas- Iran
See also:
External links
- Complete List of Terrorist and Insurgency Groups Worldwide (about 371 in all)