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4B Movement The 4B movement is a primarily online feminist movement in South Korea in which women withhold sex, dating, marriage, and childbearing from men. Its name derives from the four Korean words for these acts, all beginning with a B sound. -
Abkhazian Armed Forces (AAF) The Abkhazian Armed Forces is the military of the Georgian breakaway Republic of Abkhazia, formed during the 1992-1993 Abkhazia-Georgia war to secure the republic's autonomy. -
Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades are an alleged al-Qaeda-linked group named after Egyptian militant Mohammed Atef. Though they claimed high-profile bombings such as the 2004 Madrid train attacks, there is no firm proof the group actually exists, and some analysts consider it a disinformation front. -
Abu Sayyaf (Islamic State - East Asia Province) Abu Sayyaf, the Islamic State - East Asia Province, is a jihadist separatist insurgency in the southern Philippines founded in 1989, notorious for bombings, kidnappings, assassinations and extortion. -
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) The AWB is an Afrikaans-South African far-right, white-supremacist Christian nationalist group founded in 1973 to fight for an independent Afrikaner Republic. -
Ahrar al-Sharqiya Ahrar al-Sharqiya is an armed Syrian rebel group active in the Aleppo Governorate, formed in 2016 by former al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham members and closely backed by Turkey. -
Ajnad al-Kavkaz Ajnad al-Kavkaz (Soldiers of the Caucasus) is a Chechen Jihadist group formed in 2015 that has fought in Syria and alongside Ukraine, seeking to expel Russia from Chechnya and overthrow Ramzan Kadyrov. -
Al-Qaeda in Kurdistan (Kurdistan Brigades) Al-Qaeda in Kurdistan, also known as the Kurdistan Brigades, is a militant Salafist-jihadist organisation affiliated with Al-Qaeda, active in Iraqi Kurdistan and known for targeting secular Kurdish forces and civilians. -
Al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula (AQSP) AQSP is an Egyptian jihadist organisation formed from a merger of al-Qaeda operatives in the Sinai and Ansar al-Jihad, waging a violent insurgency against the Egyptian state. -
Al-Shabaab Harakat al-Shabaab al-mujahideen, commonly known as al-Shabaab (The Youth), is a fundamentalist Islamic insurgent organisation based in Somalia but active across East Africa. It seeks to establish a 'Greater Somalia' and is an official al-Qaeda affiliate. -
All Burma Students' Democratic Front The All Burma Students' Democratic Front is a Myanmar opposition movement formed after the 1988 8888 protests, composed largely of students and operating an armed military wing alongside other anti-government groups. -
Alpha 66 (A66) Alpha 66 is an ultranationalist, anti-Castro militant organization headquartered in Miami, founded by Cuban exiles in the 1960s to overthrow Fidel Castro's government by force. -
Ambazonia Defence Forces (ADF) The Ambazonia Defence Forces are a paramilitary organisation fighting for the independence of Ambazonia, a self-proclaimed state in the Southern Cameroons. The group has fought the Cameroonian government since 2017. -
American Indian Movement (AIM) The American Indian Movement is a political organization advocating for Native American rights, sovereignty and land, known for its 1969 Alcatraz and 1973 Wounded Knee occupations before evolving into a diplomatic, grassroots activist group. -
Anarcho-Communist Combat Organisation (BOAK) BOAK is a group of far-left anarcho-communist activists engaged in anti-war sabotage and arson against the Russian and Belarusian states since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. -
Andahuaylazo Etnocaceritas The Andahuaylazo Etnocaceritas were an ultra-nationalist ethnic insurgency group which fought for the resignation of former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo, leading an attempted coup d'état in January 2005. -
Animal Liberation Front The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is an international, decentralised, leaderless resistance movement founded in 1976 that fights animal cruelty through clandestine animal rescues and economic sabotage, including arson and bombings. -
Ansaru Ansaru is an Islamist jihadist terrorist group based in northeastern Nigeria around Kano State. Originally a faction of Boko Haram, it became independent in 2012, went dormant after 2015, and resumed attacks in 2020 while reaffirming allegiance to al-Qaeda. -
Antagonic Nuclei of the New Urban Guerrilla (NANGU) The Núcleos Antagónicos de la Nueva Guerrilla Urbana is a Chilean insurrectionary anarchist organization active since 2011, known for placing explosive and incendiary devices and carrying out direct armed attacks. -
Anti-Balaka Militants Anti-Balaka militias are an alliance of predominantly Christian militant groups in the Central African Republic whose activities intensified into widespread violence following the 2013 Séléka coup. -
Arakan Army The Arakan Army (AA) is an ethnic armed organization based in Rakhine State, Myanmar, formed in 2009 and led by General Twan Mrat Naing. One of the country's largest EAOs, it seeks self-determination for the Rakhine people and has been accused of atrocities against Rohingya Muslims. -
Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) is one of the many ethnic armed organisations engaged in the ongoing Myanmar civil war, formed in 2013 in reaction to the persecution of the Rohingya people. -
Armed Forces of South Ossetia (AFSO) The AFSO is the military of the partially-recognized state of South Ossetia, existing to resist any Georgian attempt to retake the territory with Russian backing. -
Armed Forces of the Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic (AFPMR) The Armed Forces of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, founded in 1991, exist to uphold the sovereignty and independence of the largely unrecognized breakaway republic of Transnistria. -
Army of God The Army of God (AOG) is an anti-abortion underground terrorist group based in the United States that has been linked to bombings, kidnappings, and murder beginning in the 1980s. -
Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order (JRTN) JRTN is an Iraqi insurgent group active since 2006 that blends Sufi Naqshbandi doctrine with Neo-Baathist ideology, originally founded to expel Coalition forces and restore a Baathist state; it is now believed to be dormant. -
Arrow Boys The Arrow Boys are South Sudanese community self-defence militias in Western Equatoria, known for using traditional bow-and-arrow weaponry, formed in the mid-2000s to repel attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army. -
Artsakh Defence Army (ADA) The ADA is the military of the unrecognized Armenian breakaway Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), created during the First Karabakh War to protect the region's Armenian population. -
Association of Security Forces of Belarus (BYPOL) BYPOL (Association of Security Forces of Belarus) is a dissident group of defected Belarusian law enforcement officers formed after the disputed 2020 election to topple Lukashenko, conducting sabotage and partisan attacks including a drone strike on a Russian A-50 spy plane. -
Atlanta Resistance Medics (ARM) Atlanta Resistance Medics is a street medic collective of activists, healthcare professionals, and herbalists based out of Atlanta, Georgia, providing medical support to protests and direct actions. -
Atomwaffen Division (AWD) The Atomwaffen Division is an international Neo Nazi accelerationist network seeking to incite an apocalyptic societal collapse and race war through 'lone-wolf' style attacks. It has been linked to multiple murders and affiliates worldwide. -
Aum Shinrikyo/Aleph Aum Shinrikyo is a Japanese new religion cult founded in 1987 whose apocalyptic belief system and chemical-biological weapons program culminated in the 1995 Tokyo Subway sarin attack; it still operates today as Aleph at a smaller scale. -
Azov Regiment The Azov Regiment is a Special Purpose Regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard, founded in 2014 as a volunteer battalion and noted for the far-right leanings and symbolism of its early commanders. -
Babbar Khalsa (BK) A Sikh separatist armed organisation with members in India, Europe, and North America, formed in 1978 with the goal of establishing an independent Sikh state, Khalistan, in Punjab. -
Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) Barisan Revolusi Nasional (National Revolutionary Front) is an Islamist separatist group in southern Thailand seeking an independent state of Pattani, and the chief opponent to Thai government forces in the South Thailand Insurgency. -
Basij The Basij is an Iranian paramilitary militia organized under the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, formed after the Iranian Revolution to quell domestic unrest and enforce the decrees of the Ayatollah, infamous for crackdowns on protesters. -
Blood And Honour Blood & Honour is an international racist skinhead and neo-Nazi umbrella network founded in 1987 by Ian Stuart Donaldson out of the British white-power music scene, distributing hate music and ideological texts, with some adherents seeking a 'Fourth Reich'. -
Bloods The Bloods are one of America's most notorious and violent street gangs, established in Los Angeles in the early 1970s as an alliance of gangs resisting the Crips, and now numbering an estimated 15,000-20,000 members nationwide. -
Boko Haram (JAS Faction) Boko Haram is a Salafi-Jihadist group founded in 2002 fighting for strict Shari'a law in Nigeria, whose insurgency in the Lake Chad basin has killed more than 40,000 people. -
Bolivarian Forces of Liberation (FBL/FPLN) The Bolivarian Forces of Liberation (FBL/FPLN), known locally as los boliches, are a militant leftist organisation formed in 1986 in Venezuela’s Apure state, known for assassinations, bombings, extortion, and armed activity along the Venezuelan-Colombian border. -
Boogaloo Movement The Boogaloo Movement is a loosely-organized American far-right, anti-government, anti-law enforcement movement of armed militants who call for a second American Civil War. -
Brazilian Police Militias Brazil's police militias originated as neighborhood watches formed by law enforcement officers but have grown into extensive racket-based armed gangs controlling large swathes of cities like Rio de Janeiro. -
Brown Berets (Los Boinas Cafés) The Brown Berets are a semi-militant Chicano rights political organization active in California and other parts of the United States. Formed in 1967 and primarily composed of Mexican-Americans, they have campaigned against the Vietnam War, police brutality, and for farm worker rights. -
Chin National Defense Force The Chin National Defense Force (CNDF) is the armed wing of the Chin National Organization, founded in 2021 in response to the Tatmadaw's overthrow of Myanmar's democratically elected government, conducting guerrilla resistance against the military junta in Chin State. -
Chin National Front The Chin National Front (CNF) is a political party in Myanmar seeking self-determination for the Chin people alongside democracy and federalism; its armed wing, the Chin National Army, has been at war with the military junta since the 2021 coup. -
Colectivos Colectivos are armed, far-left paramilitary groups in Venezuela's poorest neighbourhoods, loyal to the government and the Bolivarian Revolution, acting as government enforcers to maintain order and suppress dissent. -
Combat 18 Combat 18 (C18) is an international neo-Nazi terror group founded in 1992 in England as an offshoot of the British National Party, since spread internationally and conducting propaganda, harassment, and terrorist attacks. -
Communist Party of Burma (CPB) The Communist Party of Burma (CPB) is one of the oldest political parties in Myanmar and, through its military wing the People’s Liberation Army, one of the oldest still-active militant groups in the world; it took up arms again after the 2021 coup. -
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) CONAIE is the largest and most influential indigenous rights organisation in Ecuador, representing 14 native populations. It pursues social justice through advocacy, direct action, and popular uprisings against the federal government. -
Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire Nuclei (CCF) The Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire Nuclei (CCF) is an anarcho-nihilist urban guerilla group of Greek origin that has grown into a worldwide network of anarchist cells carrying out arson and bombing attacks. -
Continuity IRA (CIRA) The Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) is a paramilitary republican organization active across Ireland since 1986, formed in a split from the Provisional IRA, and the only Republican paramilitary group never to have declared a cease-fire. -
Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM) The Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM) is an armed insurgent organization founded in 1998 in Chile that fights for the emancipation of the Mapuche people through sabotage of forestry infrastructure and land occupation. -
Cossacks in the Russo-Ukrainian War Cossacks, an ethnic group with a centuries-long militarized history in Ukraine and Russia, have played an intermittent role in post-Soviet conflicts, with the majority siding with Russia and supporting or joining Russian forces in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. -
Crips The Crips are an American street gang founded by Raymond Washington around 1969-1971 in Los Angeles, originally a grassroots organization that evolved into one of the most violent gangs in the United States. -
Cyber Partisans The Cyber Partisans are a Belarusian hacktivist group founded in 2020 after fraudulent elections kept Aleksandr Lukashenko in power, using hacking to disrupt and expose the regime and to disrupt Russian military movements through Belarus. -
Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTF) Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTF) is a decentralized eco-activist and anti-police social movement in South Atlanta, Georgia, opposing the Cop City training facility through marches, forest occupation, and direct action. -
Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Since 2014 the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), a pro-Russian separatist statelet in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas, has fought the Ukrainian government for independence and integration into Russia, escalating into the full-scale Russia-Ukraine war. -
DShRG Rusich Sabotage Assault Reconnaissance Group Rusich (DShRG Rusich) is a Russian neo-Nazi imperialist paramilitary group of around 100 operators that has fought in the Donbas War, the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and in Libya, Syria, and CAR. -
Earth Liberation Front (ELF) The Earth Liberation Front is a radical, decentralised environmentalist movement founded in England in 1992, known for arson and sabotage against companies it deems harmful to the environment and branded a domestic terror threat by the FBI. -
East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), also known as the Turkistan Islamic Party, is an Islamic separatist group composed mostly of Uighurs from Xinjiang, China, seeking to create an Islamic state of East Turkestan. Founded in 1997, it is active in Syria and Afghanistan. -
East Turkestan Liberation Organisation (ETLO) The ETLO was a secessionist Uyghur organisation that fought and protested for an independent Uyghur state in China's Xinjiang province. Founded in the early 1990s in Turkey, it has since undergone structural changes and is now known as the ETIP. -
Eastern Security Network (ESN) The Eastern Security Network (ESN) is the paramilitary branch of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), a separatist organization in southeastern Nigeria. Founded in 2020, it claims to defend the ethnic Igbo people and aims to restore an independent Biafran state. -
Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP) The Ejército del Pueblo Paraguayo (EPP), Paraguayan People's Army, is a relatively small Marxist-Leninist group active since 2008, responsible for kidnappings, bombings, and armed robberies. -
English Defense League (EDL) The English Defence League is a right-wing UK group founded in 2009 that believes English society is under attack from Muslim extremists, using protest, marching, and propaganda before disbanding in 2015 into scattered far-right networks. -
ENOT Corps ENOT Corps was a Russian nationalist far-right private military contracting group, a key component of Russian hybrid warfare against Ukraine until it fell out of favour with Moscow and was shut down in 2019. -
Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), or 'Basque Homeland and Liberty,' was a Basque nationalist and separatist organization founded in 1959 that pursued an independent Basque state through armed struggle until its disarmament in 2017 and dissolution in 2018. -
Falun Gong (法轮功) Falun Gong is a Chinese new religious movement incorporating qigong exercise, founded by Li Hongzhi in the early 1990s, banned by the Chinese Communist Party in 1999, and now opposing the CCP internationally through media outlets like The Epoch Times and the Shen Yun dance troupe. -
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) Formed as an umbrella guerrilla group in 1980 from five leftist organisations, the FMLN was a key belligerent in the Salvadorian Civil War before transitioning into a left-wing political party in 1992. -
Fatah Fatah, formerly the Palestine National Liberation Movement, is a Palestinian nationalist political party founded in the late 1950s by Yasser Arafat and Khalil al-Wazir; it shifted from guerrilla warfare to a diplomatic two-state approach after the 1993 Oslo Accords. -
Fatah al-Intifada Fatah al-Intifada is an armed militant Palestinian faction active in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, founded by Colonel Said al-Murugha (Abu Musa) after splitting from the main Fatah organisation in 1983. -
Five Percent Nation (NGE) The Five Percent Nation, also known as the Nation of Gods and Earths, is an American Black nationalist group founded in 1964 by Clarence 13X after splitting from the Nation of Islam, known for its synthesis of Black nationalism, numerology, and heterodox Islam and its influence on hip-hop culture. -
Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) The Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) is a Kurdish armed group founded in 2004 and affiliated with the PKK, fighting the Islamic Republic of Iran for Kurdish political and cultural rights and a decentralized stateless administration. -
Free Papua Movement (OPM) The Free Papua Movement (OPM) is the general independence movement for the territory of West Papua, which currently belongs constitutionally to Indonesia. -
Free Republic of Liberland Liberland is an unrecognised micronation claiming an uninhabited, disputed 7 km2 territory on the western bank of the Danube between Croatia and Serbia, led by Czech right-libertarian politician Vít Jedlička. -
Free Syrian Army (FSA) The FSA is a Syrian nationalist rebel umbrella organisation formed in 2011 from defecting army officers and rebel groups, fighting to overthrow the Assad regime in the Syrian Civil War. -
Freedom of Russia Legion (FRL) The Freedom of Russia Legion is a pro-Ukrainian paramilitary of Russian immigrants and ex-Russian soldiers fighting the Putin regime as part of Ukraine's International Legion, known for cross-border raids into Belgorod. -
Friends Stand United (FSU) FSU is a loose network of militant anti-racist and anti-narcotic groups born from the Boston hardcore music scene, accused of unprovoked violence, murders, and extortion. -
Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC) The FLEC is a guerrilla movement fighting for the independence of the Angolan province of Cabinda. It is currently waging the Cabinda War against Angolan forces. -
Galician Resistance (RG) Resistência Galega (Galician Resistance) was a pro-independence, socialist armed organisation from Galicia, Spain, active from 2005 and the only group besides ETA officially recognized as terrorist in Spain; it collapsed with the arrest of its leaders in 2019. -
Generation Identity (GI) Generation Identity is a far-right pan-European nationalist youth movement, part of the wider Identitarian movement, that originated in France and promotes ideas such as the Great Replacement theory and remigration. -
Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) Movement Starting in November 2018, the Yellow Vest movement was a series of populist protests in France lasting over a year, fuelled by discontent with President Macron over rising fuel prices and economic inequality. -
Golden Dawn (GD) The Golden Dawn was a far-right Greek party and one of the most violent political movements in Europe, conducting attacks against migrants, refugees, minorities, and left-wing militants until its formal dissolution in 2020. -
Government of National Accord (GNA) Formed under the December 2015 Libyan Political Agreement, the UN-recognised GNA governed from Tripoli in opposition to the Tobruk-based Libyan National Army, before being superseded by the Government of National Unity in 2021. -
Grey Wolves The Grey Wolves are a fascist Turkish ultranationalist paramilitary group formed in 1968 as the armed wing of the MHP, known for political violence against leftists, Kurds and Armenians. -
Guacamaya Guacamaya is an environmentalist hacktivist group presumed to be based in Latin America that emerged in 2022, using data leaks and hacks against oil, mining companies, militaries, and governments to resist imperialism and environmental degradation. -
Guardians of the Forest The Guardians of the Forest (Guardioes da Floresta) is an armed Indigenous paramilitary and vigilante movement in the Brazilian Amazon based on community defense, environmentalism, and rainforest conservation, combatting illegal logging, mining, and narcotrafficking on Indigenous territory. -
Gulen Movement The Gulen Movement, or Hizmet, is the global network of followers of Turkish Sunni imam Fethullah Gulen, promoting a tolerant, progressive Islam through schools and charities worldwide, though it is designated a terrorist organisation in Turkey and accused of involvement in the failed 2016 coup. -
Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance The Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance is a tribal confederacy founded in 2013 in eastern Yemen, organising Hadhrami tribesmen to protect the region's natural resources from external interference, particularly Emirati. -
Hamas Hamas is a Palestinian militant organisation that has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007, waging armed resistance against Israel and seeking an Islamic state in historical Palestine. -
Haqqani Network The Haqqani network is an Afghan Islamic fundamentalist group that has participated in multiple conflicts in Afghanistan and provided support to terror networks in Pakistan and Indian-controlled Kashmir. -
Hasm Movement The Hasm Movement (Harakat Sawa'd Misr) is an Egyptian Islamist militant group that emerged in 2016, targeting government officials, judges and security forces with bombings and assassinations, with suspected ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. -
Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham is an active militant Sunni Islamist group in the Syrian Civil War, formed in 2017 from a merger of Islamist factions with roots in al-Qaeda's former Syrian affiliate, aiming to topple the Assad regime. -
Hells Angels (HAMC) The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) is one of the most notorious outlaw biker gangs, founded in California in 1948. It has grown into an international organization operating in a limbo between criminality, political activism, and motorcycle hobbyism. -
Hezbollah Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group established in 1985, modelled after Ayatollah Khomeini and backed by Iran, operating both a paramilitary wing and a political wing within the Lebanese parliament. -
Honker Union The Hóngkè Union of China (HUC) is a Chinese nationalist hacker group best known for defacing the White House website after the 2001 Hainan Island Incident. -
Hoods Hoods Klan (HHK) The Hoods Hoods Klan (HHK), also known as the Arsenal Kyiv Hooligans, is a Ukrainian anti-fascist and anti-racist unit, originally football ultras who reformed into a Territorial Defense Forces battalion to fight the 2022 Russian invasion. -
Houthi Movement Formed in 1992, the Houthi Movement is an Islamist political group from northern Yemen promoting the Zaydi sect of Shi'ism, which played a major role in the 2011 Yemeni Revolution and the collapse of Yemen's government. -
Indian Posse (IP) The Indian Posse is a Canadian street gang formed by brothers Danny and Richard Wolfe in 1988 in Winnipeg, with membership exclusive to Indigenous people, profiting from drug and sex trafficking and known for its frequent use of violence. -
Indigenous Guard The Indigenous Guard (Guardia Indigena) is a network of loosely affiliated nonviolent self-defense organizations in Indigenous territories throughout Colombia, dedicated to the peaceful collective defense of human rights, territory, autonomy, and culture. -
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is a Nigerian separatist organization founded in 2012 by Nnamdi Kanu to restore the Republic of Biafra, designated a terrorist organization by Nigeria in 2017 and fighting a guerilla conflict since 2021. -
Indigenous Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Pacific (FARIP) The FARIP was a Colombian Indigenous guerrilla organization founded in 1987 as an offshoot of the FARC, operating in Indigenous communities of the Pacific region until its voluntary disarmament and dissolution in 1996. -
Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) The FAI is an insurrectionary anarchist network of fluid, independent 'lone-wolf' cells waging armed struggle against nation-states through bombings, arson, and kneecappings. -
Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) The INLA was a Republican Socialist paramilitary organisation operating mainly in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, seeking full British withdrawal and a united socialist Irish republic. -
Islamic State - Caucasus Province (IS-CP) The Islamic State - Caucasus Province formed in 2015 when Caucasus Emirate members pledged allegiance to ISIS, but was largely dismantled by Russian security forces by 2017. -
Islamic State (IS/ISIS/ISIL) Islamic State (IS/ISIS/ISIL) is one of the most violent militant Islamist groups globally, a Salafi jihadist movement that controlled vast territory across Syria and Iraq before its territorial defeat in 2019. -
Islamic State in Libya (ISL) ISL is the Libyan extension of ISIS, formed in 2014 when militant groups in three Libyan provinces pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, accused of mass killings and war crimes. - Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), now Islamic State Sahel Province, is an ISIS affiliate of 400–1,000 fighters operating across Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, known for attacks on military, intervention forces, and civilians including the 2017 Niger ambush.
- Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISK) Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISK) is a subsidiary of the Islamic State active in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2015, now waging an urban guerrilla campaign to undermine the Taliban government.
- Islamic State Mozambique (ISM) Islamic State Mozambique (ISM), also known as Ahl al-Sunnah wa al Jamma’ah and Al-Shabab, is a Salafi-Jihadist insurgent group affiliated with the Islamic State, active in northern Mozambique since 2017 and known for brutal high-profile attacks.
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Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) ISWAP is a Salafi-Jihadist insurgent group acting as a subsidiary of the Islamic State within the Sahel since 2015, operating primarily within Nigeria after splitting from Boko Haram in 2016. -
Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (IQB) The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades are the armed wing of Hamas, the best-equipped and largest militant faction in the Gaza Strip, founded in 1992 to wage war against Israel. -
Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) is one of Mexico's largest and most powerful cartels, appearing in 2009 as a splinter of the Milenio Cartel and known for aggressive tactics, drug trafficking, and growing influence across Mexico. - Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) JNIM is a Jihadist insurgent coalition active in the Maghreb and West Africa, responsible for the majority of militant Islamist violence in the Sahel since 2017.
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Jamaat Al Muslimeen (JAM) Jamaat al Muslimeen is a Sunni Islamist fundamentalist group in Trinidad and Tobago, founded by Yassin Abu Bakr in the 1980s and best known for its failed 1990 coup attempt, the only Islamist uprising in Latin America and the Caribbean. -
Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) The Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) is a political separatist organization operating in Indian- and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, advocating reunification and independence; it was armed until declaring an indefinite ceasefire in 1994. -
Janjaweed The Janjaweed is a Sudanese Arab militia operating in Sudan and eastern Chad with a particular concentration around Darfur, notorious for ethnic cleansing campaigns and later rebranded as the Rapid Support Forces. -
Jewish Defence League (JDL) The Jewish Defence League is a far-right Zionist organization founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1968 to combat antisemitism by any means necessary, declared a right-wing terrorist group by the FBI in 2001. -
Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) The Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) is the military branch of the Karen National Union, campaigning for the self-determination of the Karen people of Myanmar and fighting the military junta for 75 years. -
KillNet KillNet is a Russian nationalist hacker group known for its use of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to target European infrastructure in support of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. -
Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan The Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan is a left-wing organization fighting for Kurdish rights and self-determination in Iran, publicly founded in 1979 and now one of the most prominent groups opposing the Islamic Republic. -
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) The Kosovo Liberation Army was an ethnic Albanian separatist militia that fought for Kosovo's independence from Serbia. During its existence it was designated a terrorist group by the Former Yugoslav Republic. -
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) The Ku Klux Klan is an American white supremacist group, listed as a terrorist organization in the US, first founded after the Civil War and revived in 1915, with a long history of racial violence and intimidation. -
Kurdish Hezbollah Kurdish Hezbollah is an armed Sunni Islamist group formed in 1993 outside Batman, Turkey, that carried out assassinations against the PKK and the secularist Turkish state. -
Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) The Kurdistan Workers' Party is a Kurdish militant and political organization founded in 1978 by Abdullah Öcalan, operating primarily in Turkey and fighting a protracted armed struggle for Kurdish autonomy. -
League of St George The League of St George is a British far-right group founded in 1974 by former members of Oswald Mosley's Union Movement, dedicated to Mosley's 'Europe a Nation' philosophy and the distribution of fascist literature. It has been largely inactive since around 2016. -
Libyan National Army (LNA) The Libyan National Army is a component of Libya's military forces under the command of Khalifa Haftar. Based in Tobruk, it opposes the internationally-recognised GNA and is backed by Egypt, France, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. -
Lion's Den The Lion's Den is a recently-formed, cross-factional Palestinian militia active in the West Bank and based in Nablus, known for hit-and-run attacks against the IDF and rapid growth via social media. -
Lions of Hussein Guardians of the Dawn was a conglomerate of Pro-Assad, Syrian Nationalist, Christian militias which banded together under one title in 2015. -
Liwa al-Quds Liwa al-Quds (Free Jerusalem) is a Palestinian armed group loyal to the Assad government in Syria, founded in 2013, that has fought anti-government rebels in Aleppo and the Islamic State in Deir ez-Zor. -
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) The Lord's Resistance Army is an armed Christian-extremist rebel group founded in Uganda and now operating across the DRC, CAR and South Sudan, notorious for brutality and child abductions under leader Joseph Kony. -
Los Lobos The Lobos are the second-largest criminal group in Ecuador, with over 8,000 members, involved in drug trafficking, prison massacres, and illegal mining, with alleged links to Mexico's Jalisco Cartel - New Generation. -
M-19 The 19th of April Movement (M-19) was a Colombian urban guerrilla movement active in the 1970s and 80s, known for armed propaganda actions, before demobilising in 1990 and transitioning into the political party AD/M-19. -
M23 Rebels (March 23 Movement) The March 23 Movement, also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army, is an insurgency based in the east of the DRC. Named after a 2009 peace accord, it has waged repeated offensives in North Kivu and is reportedly backed by Rwanda. -
Mai-Mai Kata Katanga Mai-Mai Kata Katanga is a rebel organisation formed in 2011 in the Katanga province of the DRC that fights to secede the resource-rich region from the rest of the country. -
Malorussian Liberation Army (MLA) The Malorussian Liberation Army is a militant group active on the pro-Russian side of the Russo-Ukrainian War, rooted in the Russian online community Local Crew and dedicated to memetic warfare and Russian irredentism. -
Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) The Marxist-Leninist Communist Party is an underground Hoxhaist communist party in Turkey, founded in 1994 and renowned among internationalists for its involvement in the Rojava conflict since 2012. -
Militia (Italy) Whilst their activity was largely restricted to Rome and its suburbs, Militia represents an interesting example of far-right urban activity, taking the form of a secretive accelerationist sect. -
Misanthropic Division Misanthropic Division is a network/group to which any pro-Ukrainian combatant can claim membership as long as they follow the group's far-right/neo-nazi ideology. -
Mojahedin-e-Kalq (MEK) The Mojahedin-e-Kalq (MEK) is an exiled Iranian opposition group that began as a leftist student movement in the 1960s, helped topple the Shah, and is now widely viewed as a cult opposing the Islamic Republic from exile in Albania. -
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is a Filipino group dedicated to self-determination for the Moro people. Formed as an MNLF splinter in 1977, it waged insurgency across Mindanao until a 2014 peace agreement, after which it transitioned into a political organization. -
Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) The MFDC is the armed separatist movement in the Casamance region of Senegal, founded in 1947 and centred around the Jola people. Its armed wing has fought for the independence of Casamance since 1982. -
Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem The Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem is an armed Jihadist group with extensive links to al-Qaeda, formed in 2012 to coordinate Salafi jihadist groups in Gaza, since delisted and considered no longer operationally active. -
Mullah Dadullah Front The Mullah Dadullah Front was an extreme insurgent splinter faction of the Taliban in Afghanistan, named after a notoriously violent Taliban commander killed in 2007, known for high-profile assassinations and opposing the Taliban's peace talks. -
Myanmar People's Defence Force (PDF) The PDF is a citizen militia formed by the National Unity Government to combat the military dictatorship that seized power in Myanmar's 2021 coup, waging armed guerilla resistance against the Tatmadaw. -
Nation of Islam (NOI) The Nation of Islam is a religious Black nationalist organization in the USA, founded in the 1930s, blending Islam, Christianity, and Black supremacy and maintaining an armed wing, the Fruit of Islam. -
National Liberation Army (ELN) The ELN is a Colombian-based far-left guerrilla group founded in 1964, waging armed resistance against the Colombian state and multinational corporations through kidnapping, extortion, bombings, and assassinations. -
National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC) The FLNC (Corsican National Liberation Front), founded in 1976, became one of the most active militant groups in Europe with thousands of bombings and shootings against French rule; it declared a cessation of armed struggle in 2014, though splinter groups have since reorganised. -
National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) The MNLA is a political and military organisation in Azawad, northern Mali, predominantly composed of ethnic Tuareg fighters. Founded in 2011, it took control of northern Mali in early 2012. -
National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), also called the Second Resistance, is a military alliance of former Northern Alliance fighters and other anti-Taliban groups. It is the only organized resistance to the Taliban, based around the Panjshir Valley. -
National Socialism Association (NSA) The National Socialism Association (NSA) is a small Taiwanese far-right political organization, often labeled neo-Nazi (a label it denies). It has never engaged in violence, operates mostly online, and appears largely defunct as of 2023. -
National Socialist Movement The National Socialist Movement is a neo-Nazi organization grounded in far-right Nazi beliefs that seeks to establish an all-white America, known as the oldest and most prominent neo-Nazi group currently active in the United States. -
Naxalite Movement The Naxalites are an Indian Marxist-Leninist-Maoist political-military movement named after the 1967 Naxalbari uprising, waging a protracted guerrilla people’s war against the Indian state through its armed wing, the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army. -
New Irish Republican Army (New IRA) The New IRA is an Irish Republican paramilitary organisation active in Northern Ireland, formed in 2012 and seeking the removal of British presence and a reunified socialist Ireland. -
Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) is a militant organization operating in Nigeria’s Niger Delta since 2016, aiming to reallocate control of the region’s oil blocks to its people by sabotaging multinational oil company infrastructure with small arms and explosives. -
Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU) The Nineveh Plain Protection Units is an ethnic-Assyrian Christian militia based in Northern Iraq, founded in late 2014 as the armed wing of the Assyrian Democratic Movement, instrumental in the defeat of ISIS and still active protecting the region's Christian population. -
Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) The NRM is a pan-Scandinavian neo-Nazi movement seeking to replace liberal democracy with a white nationalist government through a militaristic nationalist revolution. -
North Korean People's Liberation Front (NKPLF) The NKPLF is a Seoul-based paramilitary organisation founded in 2010 by North Korean Army defectors aiming to overthrow the North Korean regime. Its activities are largely limited to information warfare, distributing censored materials into North Korea and smuggling information out. -
Oath Keepers The Oath Keepers are a loosely organized American anti-government extremist militia founded in 2009 by Stewart Rhodes, focused on recruiting military, police and first responders, and prominent in the January 6 Capitol attack. -
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a radical Sunni Islamic organization founded in the Gaza Strip in 1984 with the aim of forming a Palestinian Islamic state, militarily, politically and financially supported by Iran. -
Patani United Liberation Organisation (PULO) PULO is a Malay-Muslim separatist movement in Southern Thailand founded in 1968, seeking an independent Patani through armed struggle including bombings and drive-by shootings against the Thai state. -
Patriot Front Patriot Front is a US white nationalist and neo-fascist organization founded in 2017 after the Charlottesville rally, known for flash demonstrations, propaganda campaigns, and a 2022 mass arrest for conspiracy to riot. -
Patriotic Alternative Patriotic Alternative is a far-right, neo-Nazi group founded in 2019, the UK's largest fascist organisation, focused on the alleged demographic decline of native Britons and opposition to immigration. -
Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West PEGIDA ('Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West') emerged in 2014 in Dresden, Germany as a largely peaceful anti-Islamist street-demonstration movement protesting immigration and integration policy. -
People's Defense Units (YPG) The People's Defense Units (YPG) are a Kurdish militia in northern Syria and the main component of the Syrian Democratic Forces, formed to defend Kurdish-inhabited areas and the autonomous region of Rojava. -
Peshmerga The Peshmerga are the military force of Kurdistan, born out of the 1940s struggle for Kurdish independence, who played a key role in defeating al-Qaeda and ISIS while remaining divided along party lines and plagued by corruption. -
Polisario Front (PF) The Polisario Front is the group of resistance fighters formed by the Al-Sahrawi people to fend off Moroccan forces in the disputed territory of Western Sahara. -
Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya (PFLL) The Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya is a Gaddafi-loyalist militia and political party founded in 2016, a prominent faction of the 'Green Resistance' supporting Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's presidential candidacy. -
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) The PFLP is a secular Palestinian Marxist-Leninist organization founded by George Habash in December 1967, opposing Zionism and advocating for a single democratic Palestinian state through armed struggle. -
Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) The Popular Mobilization Forces is a paramilitary umbrella organization in Iraq, officially established in 2014 to combat the ISIS insurgency, comprising numerous militias divided along sectarian, religious, and political lines and remaining largely active and influential in Iraq today. -
Qanon QAnon is a decentralized, often violent movement built around a conspiracy theory about a Satanic 'deep state' cabal of pedophile elites, holding that Donald Trump alone can defeat them. It first emerged on internet forums in 2017. -
Rapid Support Forces (RSF) The Rapid Support Forces are a Sudanese paramilitary force grown out of the Janjaweed militias, accused of crimes against humanity and of cracking down on pro-democracy protests. -
Real Ulster Freedom Fighters (Real UFF) The Real Ulster Freedom Fighters are a loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland, believed to be formed from former UVF members and involved in several bomb and gun attacks. -
Red Dragons The Red Dragons are a Cameroonian separatist militia from western Cameroon who, since 2017, have waged armed conflict against the national government to gain recognition for the Republic of Ambazonia during the Anglophone Crisis. -
Redneck Revolt Redneck Revolt is an armed left-wing, anti-fascist organization founded in Kansas in 2016 that operates in rural working-class areas across the USA, focusing on protests, firearms training, and mutual aid rather than insurrectionary violence. -
Regional Committee for Viticultural Action (CRAV) The CRAV is a French militant group for wine producers, formed in 1970 and active in Languedoc-Roussillon. It is responsible for numerous attacks including dynamiting grocery stores and wineries to pressure the government over wine production. -
Resistencia Mapuche Lavkenche (RML) The Resistencia Mapuche Lavkenche is a militant organization operating in the Araucania and Bio Bio regions of Chile since 2020, following a doctrine of armed resistance and sabotage against the Chilean state and the forestry and logging industries in pursuit of Mapuche autonomy. -
Revolutionary Action (Rev Dia) Rev Dia, known in English as Revolutionary Action, is an anarchist group with influence primarily spanning the former soviet states of Belarus and Ukraine, formed in Minsk in 2005. -
Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies The Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies (G9) is an alliance of gangs led by former police officer Jimmy 'Barbecue' Chérizier, the most powerful faction in the ongoing Haitian gang war, controlling much of Port-au-Prince. -
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) The DHKP-C is a militant Marxist group based in Turkey that seeks to establish a socialist state through armed struggle, conducting an insurgency against the Turkish government since 1978. -
Revolutionary Struggle (Επαναστατικός Αγώνας) The currently inactive Revolutionary Struggle (RS) were the first to pick up the baton of violence from 17N, staying active from 2003 until 2014. -
Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) The Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) is an ethnic armed organisation active in Myanmar and Bangladesh, founded in 1982 with the goal of establishing rights and autonomy for the Rohingya people. -
Russian Imperial Movement The Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) is a far-right ultranationalist and white supremacist political organisation with a paramilitary wing, the Imperial Legion, known for its 'Partizan' training camp and transnational far-right network. -
Russian Penal Battalions in the Russo-Ukrainian War Facing manpower shortages after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia recruited prison inmates into the 'Shtorm' (Storm-Z and Storm-V) penal units, lightly trained convict formations deployed as disposable light infantry on Ukrainian battlefields. -
Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) The Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) is a far-right volunteer unit fighting on the Ukrainian side of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian war, specialising in deploying Russian nationals opposed to the Putin regime. -
SADAT SADAT International Defense and Consultancy is a Turkish-based private military contractor founded in 2012 by retired Brigadier General Adnan Tanrıverdi, with close ties to Erdogan and a pan-Islamic worldview. -
Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club (SSMC) The Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club (SSMC) is a small network of far-right motorcycle clubs active across the US, with some chapters found abroad. -
Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) is a left-wing party in Nicaragua that grew from a 1961 armed resistance against the Somoza dictatorship into the country's dominant political party under Daniel Ortega. -
Sandworm Sandworm is the name given to Russia's GRU intelligence unit, Military Unit 74455, which specialises in cyber attacks and espionage, carrying out operations aligned with Russian state objectives, many of them against Ukraine. -
Saraya Al-Mukhtar (SM) Saraya Al-Mukhtar, also known as The Chosen Brigades, is a Bahraini Shi'a militant group formed in 2013. It has used IEDs in pursuit of ousting the Al-Khalifa regime and ending Sunni minority rule. -
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a US-based marine conservation group founded in 1977 that targets illegal fishing operations worldwide through direct action ranging from research to sabotage. -
Sect of Revolutionaries (Σέχτα Επαναστατών) The Greek group commonly referred to in English as 'Sect of Revolutionaries' emerged in Greece in the wake of the December 2008 unrest that followed the killing of Alexis Grigoropoulos. -
Security Forces Command (SFC) The Security Forces Command (SFC), established in 1976, are the security forces of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a de facto state whose primary function is to maintain the territorial integrity of the TRNC. -
Serb Volunteer Guard (Arkan's Tigers) The Serb Volunteer Guard, better known as Arkan's Tigers, was a Serbian paramilitary unit active during the Yugoslav Wars, notorious for its ruthlessness toward combatants and civilians and the flamboyance of its commander Zeljko 'Arkan' Raznatovic. -
Shabiha The Shabiha are loosely associated pro-Assad militias with criminal, mafia-like roots in Syria’s Alawite coastal areas, used by the regime for repression and brutal retaliation during the Syrian Civil War. -
Sheikh Mansur Battalion (SMB) The Sheikh Mansur Battalion (SMB) is a Chechen volunteer paramilitary unit fighting for Ukraine since 2014 as part of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps, rooted in the Caucasus Emirate and motivated by long-standing anti-Russian grievances. -
Shining Path The Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) is a far-left Maoist guerrilla group founded in Peru in the late 1960s by Abimael Guzmán, seeking to topple the state and install a peasant-led communist regime; now largely disbanded with active remnants. -
Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ) The Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ) is an ethnic Yazidi militia formed in 2014 to protect the Yazidi community in Iraq, primarily active fighting against ISIL from the Sinjar Mountains. -
Slovenski Branci Slovenski Branci was a Slovakian nationalist paramilitary training militia founded in 2012 with anti-NATO, Russophile and pan-Slavistic leanings and ties to Russian nationalist organizations; it self-dissolved in October 2022. -
St. Pauli Football Club Ultras St. Pauli FC is a football club in Hamburg, Germany, considered one of the most political clubs in football. Its ultras hold a far-left, anti-racist, anti-fascist ideology and engage in protests and at times violent hooligan confrontations. -
Student Armed Force (SAF) The Student Armed Force is a Burmese militia formed in April 2021 in the wake of the coup, composed primarily of student activists who, with deep ties to the Arakan Army, wage a guerrilla campaign against the Tatmadaw junta in the Dry Zone of Myanmar. -
Sun Yee On (New Righteousness & Peace Commercial and Industrial Guild) Sun Yee On is the largest and ostensibly most powerful triad society in the world, based in Hong Kong with operations in mainland China, engaged in protection rackets, extortion, drug trafficking, and legal ventures. -
Syriac Union Party (SUP) The Syriac Union Party is an Assyrian/Syriac left-wing political organisation representing the Assyrian population of Syria, characterised by the secular leftist Dawronoye movement. -
Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) The Syrian Electronic Army was a hacker group that emerged in 2011 claiming to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, carrying out high-profile hacking operations against Western and Arab media before disbanding around 2016. -
Taliban The Taliban are a Pashtun fundamentalist Islamic group and political movement in Afghanistan that ruled in the late 1990s, waged a 20-year insurgency, and retook power in 2021. -
The American Nazi Party The American Nazi Party (ANP) was a neo-Nazi organization founded in 1959 by George Lincoln Rockwell, who used provocative street demonstrations and propaganda to pursue a white-nationalist political movement; it fractured after his 1967 assassination. -
The Aryan Brotherhood. The Aryan Brotherhood is a white supremacist prison gang based in the USA, known as one of the most violent gangs in the American prison system and engaged in drug trafficking, extortion, and contract killing. -
The Base The Base is a multinational far-right white supremacist militant group founded in 2018 by Rinaldo Nazzaro in the United States, seeking to create a worldwide network of cells carrying out terrorist attacks to build white ethnostates. -
The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) The CMA is a mostly secular, Tuareg-Arab separatist political-military coalition seeking independence for Azawad in northern Mali, in conflict with the Malian government, its allies, and transnational Salafi Islamist groups. -
The Groypers (America First) The Groypers, or America First, are a decentralized movement of far-right American nationalists that emerged online around white supremacist livestreamer Nick Fuentes, seeking to rebrand alt-right ideology for a younger, Gen Z audience under the banner of Christian nationalism. -
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) MEND is one of the largest and most influential militant groups in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, active since 2004 and using guerrilla tactics to increase the region's self-reliance. -
The Muslim Brotherhood The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is a global Sunni Islamist group founded in Egypt in 1928, often seen as the first mainstream Islamist organisation and the precursor of modern Islamism. -
The South is my Country The South Is My Country (O Sul é o Meu País) is an unarmed, non-violent separatist movement in southern Brazil seeking independence for Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul, known for organising unofficial referendums in 2016 and 2017. -
Tiger Forces (Syrian 25th Special Mission Forces Division) The Tiger Forces are an elite formation of the Syrian Arab Army formed in 2013 and renamed the 25th Special Mission Forces Division in 2019, regarded as one of the most effective military formations loyal to the Baathist regime. -
Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) The TPLF is a paramilitary group within Ethiopia seeking independence for the Tigray region. A socialist ethnic-nationalist insurgency of around 100,000 fighters, it ruled Ethiopia until 2018 and has since taken up arms against Ethiopian and Eritrean forces. -
Tubu Militias A variety of local militias composed of the Tubu people in southern Libya, formed largely after 2011 to defend Tubu rights but descending into armed banditry and smuggling. -
Ulster Defence Association (UDA) The Ulster Defence Association is a loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland, founded in 1971 during The Troubles to counter Irish Republican Army operations and defend loyalist neighbourhoods. -
United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) The UDD, also referred to as the Red Shirts, is a Thai movement that formed in opposition to the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), a reactionary monarchist group associated with the Thai military, monarchy and judiciary. -
United Wa State Army The United Wa State Army (UWSA) is the largest of Myanmar's ethnic armed organizations, a 30,000-strong militia governing the autonomous Wa State and operating one of Southeast Asia's largest drug trafficking enterprises. -
Vanguard America Vanguard America was a far-right, white supremacist/neo-Nazi organisation largely active between 2016 and 2017, founded by ex-Marine Dillon Ulysses Hopper. -
Wagner Group The Wagner Group is a Russian mercenary organisation formed in 2014 by Dmitry Utkin and bankrolled by Yevgeny Prigozhin, operating as a 'quasi-state actor' across the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Latin America with alleged Kremlin ties. -
Weichan Auka Mapu (WAM) Weichan Auka Mapu (WAM) is a militant Mapuche insurgency organization in southern Chile, active since around 2011 and known for incendiary attacks and sabotage in pursuit of Mapuche emancipation. -
Westboro Baptist Church The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is a Christian extremist hate group based in Topeka, Kansas, founded in 1955 by Fred Waldron Phelps, known for hateful messaging and provocative picketing demonstrations. -
White Aryan Resistance (WAR) Fomented by the notorious neo-Nazi Tom Metzger, White Aryan Resistance (WAR) capitalised on the rise of racist skinhead culture and acted as a hub for radicalising young skinheads into racial violence. -
Women Democratic Front (WDF) The Women Democratic Front (WDF) is a socialist-feminist political protest organisation based in Pakistan that seeks to unite women against what it views as systematic oppression. -
Women's Protection Units (YPJ) The Women's Protection Units (YPJ), formed in 2012, is an all-female Kurdish fighting unit that fought the Islamic State and continues to defend Northern Syria against Turkey and its proxies, promoting gender equality and Kurdish cultural rights. -
Yemeni National Resistance Forces (NRF) The National Resistance Forces is a loose coalition of three separate fighting forces in the Yemeni Civil War, fighting alongside the Saudi Arabian-led coalition against Houthi rebels since 2017. -
Young Army Cadets National Movement (Yunarmiya) Yunarmiya is a paramilitary youth organisation founded in 2016 by the Russian government to revive patriotic sentiment and military readiness among the younger generation. -
Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) The EZLN is an armed Indigenous insurgent organization based in Chiapas, Mexico, which launched an uprising against the Mexican state on January 1, 1994 and now maintains a regime of Indigenous political autonomy in the zones under its control.
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