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Updated on September 8 2024

AFRICA:

(31 Countries and 297 between militias-guerrillas, terrorist-separatist-anarchic groups involved)

Hot Spots:
-Burkina Faso (etnic clashes)
-Central African Republic (often there are armed clashes between muslims and christians)
-Democrati Republic of Congo (war against rebel groups)
-Egypt (war against islamic militants of Islamic State branch)
-Libya (civil war), Mali (clashes between army and rebel groups)
-Mozambique (clashes with RENAMO rebels), Nigeria (war against islamist militants)
-Somalia (war against al-Shabaab islamist militants)
-Sudan (war between Government and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and against rebel groups in Darfur)
-South Sudan (clashes with rebel groups)

Algeria 4

Army
  • al-Qaeda Organization in the Maghreb (AQIM) or al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) or since 2005 (known in the past as Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) since 2003)
  • Islamic Salvation Front (Fis)
  • Jamat Tawhid Wal Jihad Fi Garbi Afriqqiya (Movement for Monotheism and Jihad in West Africa) group has broken away since December 2011
  • Jund al-Khilifa or Jund al-khilafah or Jund-al-Khilafa or Jund al-Khalifa or Soldiers of the Caliphate in Algeria or Caliphate Soldiers of Algeria (new armed group split from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and joined to Islamic State (IS) since September 14 2014)

Angola 2

Army
  • Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda - Military Position (FLEC-PM) secessionist movement from 1975
  • Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda - Armed Forces of Cabinda (Flec-Fac)

Burkina Faso 1

Army
  • Ansarul Islam (linked to al-Qaeda)

Burundi 4

Army
  • Burundi Republican Army (BRA) (merge between RED-Tabara and Forebu in 2019)
    • Republican Forces of Burundi or Forebu (since December 2015)
    • RED-Tabara o RED Tabara or Resistance for Rule of Law in Burundi or anti Nkurunziza rebels Red Tabara (militia based in Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  • Forces Nationales de Libération (FNL) (rebel group)

Central African Republic 13 (signed peace agreement with 10 armed groups in May 10 2015)

Army
  • Seleka (coalition of 5 muslim rebel groups) (has overthrown government and seized power in March 2013, signed ceasefire April 2015):
    • Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP)
    • Patriotic Convention for Saving the Country (CPSK) or Convention of Patriots of Salvation and Kodro (CPSK)
    • Union of Democratic Forces for Unity (UFDR)
    • Democratic Front of the Central African People (FDPC) or Democratic Front for the People of the Central African Republic (FDPC) or Democratic Forces for the People of Central Africa (FDPC)
    • Alliance for Revival and Rebuilding (A2R)
  • Movement of Central African Liberators for Justice (MLCJ)
  • Anti-balaka militias (christians against Seleka) (signed ceasefire April 2015)
  • Peul militias
  • Revolution-Justice
  • Fulani Union for Peace in the Central African Republic (UPC) or Unity for Peace in Central Africa (UPC)
  • Popular Front for the Renaissance in the Central African Republic (FPRC)
  • Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC) (coalition of 3 rebel groups created in December 2020)

Chad 3

Army
  • Union of Resistance Forces (URF)
  • Military Command Council for the Salvation of the Republic (CCMSR) since 2014 (Active in south Libia)
  • Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT)

Cameroon 10

Army
  • Boko Haram (islamic sect) attacks from Nigeria since 2014
  • Governing Council of Ambazonia (GCA) (separatist movement)
  • Ambazonia Self-Defence Council (ASDC) or Ambazonia Restoration Forces (ARF)
  • Seven Karta (Ambazonia separatist movement)
  • Red Dragons (Ambazonia separatist movement)
  • Tigers (Ambazonia separatist movement)
  • Ambazonia Defence Forces (ADF) or Ambazonian Defence Forces (ADF) (Ambazonia separatist movement)
  • Buffaloes (separatist group)
  • Marines (separatist group)
  • Big Number fighters (commander of unknown splinter separatist group)

Democratic Republic of the Congo 51

  • Army
  • Banyamulege vigilant groups
  • Wazalendo or Patriotic Militia
  • United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC or MONUSCO) composed by 59 countries
  • March 23 Movement (M23) Troops loyal to Bosco ‘Terminator’ Ntaganda military leader (who has defected from the Congolese army) have created the armed group March 23 Movement (M23) comprising of former members of the rebel National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) (announced cease-fire on November 3 2013, announced end of rebellion and disarm on November 5 2013. Peace agreement signed on December 12 2013)
  • Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) or Forces démocratiques pour la libération du Rwanda (FDLR) or ex-FAR / Interahamwe
    • RUD-Urunana (splinter group of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR)) or Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda/Rassemblement Uni pour la Démocratie (FDLR/RUD) operate in South Lubero Territory
    • Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda/FDLR/SOKI
    • Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda/FDLR/FOCA or Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda/FDLR-FOCA or Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda/Forces Combattantes Abacunguzi (FDLR-FOCA)
    • Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda/FDLR Mandevu (split from FDLR/FOCA since 2010)
  • Mai Mai Hilaire (Union pour la Réhabilitation de la Démocratie du Congo - URDC)
  • Mai Mai Raia Mutomboki or Rai Mutomboki has fought both FDLR (congolese army) and FARDC (rebels)
  • Mai Mai Sheka or Mayi Mayi Sheka or Sheka (Nduma Defence of Congo - NDC) or Mai-Mai de Nduma Defense of Congo (NDC) (Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka surrendered to U.N forces on July 2017)
  • Mai Mai Kifuafua (North Kivu)
  • Mai Mai Morgan (active in Mambasa and Bafwasende)
  • Mai Mai Simba or Armée Populaire de Libération Nationale Congolaise-Lumumba - APLNC/Lumumb
  • Mai Mai Yakutumba (Pro-government militia) (active in South Kivu) since 2007
  • Mai Mai Gedeon allied to separatists in southern Katanga province
  • Mai Mai Hume
  • Mai Mai Kata Katanga or Mai Mai Bakata Katanga or Katanga
  • Mai Mai Mazembe or Mai-Mai Mazembe (ethnic Nande militia)
  • Mai-Mai Nyatura
  • Mai-Mai Kyandenga (militia)
  • Local Defence Forces Busumba (LDF)
  • Congo Defence Front (FDC) fought Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) and and FARDC early 2012
  • Union of Congolese Patriots for Peace (UCPC) or Union des Patriotes Congolais pour la Paix (UPCP/FPC) (led by Celestin Malonga)
  • Mouvement d’Action pour le Changement (MAC)
  • Mouvement Populaire d’Autodéfense (MPA) (ethnic Hutu)
  • Allied Democratic Forces and National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (ADF-NALU) or Allied Defense Forces-NALU (Ugandan-led islamists)
  • National Liberation Forces (FNL) or Forces nationales de libération (FNL) Burundian active in South Kivu since 2013
  • Nyatura (Hutu fighters since 2010)
  • Forces des Défense des Intérêts du Peuple Congolais (FDIPC) since 2013
  • Alliance des Patriotes pour un Congo Libre et Souverain (APCLS) or Alliance des patriotes pour un Congo libre et démocratique or Patriotic Alliance for Free and Sovereign Congo (APCLS) operates in Masisi area west of Goma (Mai Mai group since 2008)
  • Coalition des Groupes Armés de l’Ituri (COGAI)/MRPC since May 2012
  • Patriotic Resistance Forces of Ituri (FRPI) or Patriotic Revolutionary Forces of Ituri(FRPI) or Forces de resistance patriotiques en Ituri (FRPI) (in Ituri region near Uganda border)
  • Forces de Défense Nationale (FDN)
  • M18 (new rebel faction in North Kivu, not linked with March 23 Movement)
  • M26 (since 26 October 2012 in North Kivu)
  • Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) born on 1987 against Congo and Uganda armed forces
  • Popular Front for Justice in Congo
  • Independent Liberation Movement of the Allies or Nzobo ya Lombo
  • Patriotes Résistants Congolais (PARECO)
  • Kamwina Nsapu militia (militia loyal to Kamwina Nsapu from the Luba ethnic group)
  • Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) separatist sect
  • Islamic State in Central Africa (ISCA) since October 2017
  • Malaika (angel)
  • Central Africa Province of the Caliphate (CAPC) affiliate to terrorist group Islamic State (IS,ISIS)
  • MRCD Ubumwe (Rwandan rebel political group based in Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  • Cooperative For the Development of Congo (CODECO)
  • Gumino (rebel group)
  • Madina at Tauheed Wau Mujahedeen (MTM) linked to Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh)
  • Banyamulenge militia (Congolese tutsis)

Djibouti 1

Army
  • Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD)

Egypt 11

  • Army
  • Sinai Tribal Union
  • Takfir wal-Hijra or At-Takfir Wal-Hijra (jihadist salafist group)
  • Jund al Sharia or the Soldiers of Islamic Law (since 2012)
  • Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC) or Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC) or Mujahedeen Shura Council (MSC) or Magles Shoura al-Mujahedeen or Magles Shoura al-Mujahadin or Mujahideen Shura Council of Jerusalem (active also in Sinai-Egypt ad in Gaza Strip) since 2011
  • al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula and its military wing Ansar al Jihad (since December 2011)
  • Ansar al-Shariah (since July 2013)
  • Wilayat Sinaa or Welayet Sinai (formerly known as Sinai Province or Ansar Bait al-Maqdis or Velayat Sinai or Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (Supporters of Jerusalem) or Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis (Supporters of Jerusalem) or Ansar Beit al-Maqdess (Supporters of Jerusalem) or Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis (Champions of Jerusalem) or Ansar Beit al Maqds (Supporters of Jerusalem) or Ansar Beyt el Makdes or Ansar Beit el-Maqdes or Ansar Beit al Maqdis (Champions of Jerusalem) (was linked to al-Qaeda, now linked to Islamic State terrorist group)
  • Brigades of Lone Wolves (jihadist group) since January 2014
  • Ajnad Misr or Egypt’s Soldiers or Soldiers of Egypt (since February 2014)
  • Jund al Khilafah Kinana (linked to Islamic State group in Iraq) since September 2014
  • Popular Resistence Movement (affiliation is unknown)

Eritrea 4

Army
  • Democratic Movement for the Liberation of the Eritrean Kunama (DMLEK)
  • Eritrean Salvation Front (ESF)
  • Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization (RSADO)
  • Continuing tensions of border with Ethiopia (signed peace agremeent end war after 20 years on September 2018) and Djibouti

Ethiopia 15

Army
  • Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) fights for independence of Ogaden from Ethiopia Government since 1984 (accepted to lay down arms in April 2010. On October 12 2010 has signed a peace deal with Government. Since January 2012 figths are going on. On September 2012 started peace talks with Government. In October 2018 signed peace deal)
  • Ogaden National Liberation Army (ONLA) armed wing of ONLF
  • Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) fights for independence of Oromo from Ethiopia Government since 1973
  • Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) (breakaway faction of ex-rebel group Oromo Liberation Front (OLF))
  • Jijirama Oromo Liberation Front (Jijirama-OLF) da Gennaio 2012
  • United Western Somali Liberation Front (UWSLF) since 1970 (accepted to lay down arms in April 2010)
  • Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front or Afar Revolutionary Democratic Union Front (ARDUF)
  • Patriot Ginbot 7 (PG7) or Ginbot 7 Movement for Justice Freedom and Democracy
  • Gambella Nilotes United Movement/Army (GNUM/A)
  • Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front or Ethiopian Peoples Patriotic Front (EPPF)
  • Benishanguel Peoples Liberation Movement (BPLM)
  • Benishangul Gumez Peoples Movement (BGPM)
  • Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) (signed peace agreement on November 2022)
  • United Front of Ethiopian Federalist Forces (UFEFF) or United Front of Ethiopian Federalist and Confederalist Forces (UFEFCF) (formed by 9 rebel groups in November 2021)
  • Fano (militia in Amhara region)

Ivory Coast 1

Republican Forces of new-elected president Alassane Ouattara (ended on April 13, 2011)
  • “Invisible Commandos” militia

Kenya 2

Army
  • Muslim Youth Center (al-Qaeda-linked Somali militia in Kenya)
  • Mombasa Republic Council (MRC) separatist group

Libya 41

Civil war in act between government, ISIS and local terrorist groups
  • Army
  • Nationalist militia from Zintan town (allied with Warshafana tribe)
  • Khalifa Haftar forces (led by the retired general Khalifa Haftar)
  • Al-Shorooq force
  • Battalion 166 or 166th Battalion
  • Masked Brigade (militia active in Zuwara town)
  • Zawia Martyrs Brigade or Azzawiya Revolutionary Battalion
  • Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG)
  • Al-Binyan Al-Marsous (militia)
  • Tripoli Revolutionary Brigade or Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade
  • Special Deterrence Force (Rada)
  • Abu Selim Brigade
  • Nawassi Brigade
  • Ansar al-Sharia or Ansar Al Sharia or Ansar al-Shariah (Salafist jihadist group born in 2011, in October 2014 has declared an Islamic Emirate in Derna town and announced allegiance to terrorist group Islamic State (IS) in March 2015. In May 27 2017 announced its dissolution.)
  • Libyan Liberation Front (LLF) in Sahel
  • Prisoner Omar Abdelrahman Group
  • Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) or Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya, since 2011 changed its name in Libyan Islamic Movement (LIM) or al-Harakat al-Islamiya al-Libiya, linked to al-Qaeda
  • Imprisoned Omar Abdul Rahman Brigades, linked to al-Qaeda
  • Rafallah Sahati Islamist Militia
  • Operations Cell of Libyan Revolutionaries or Libyan Revolutionaries Operations Room (coalition of islamist armed groups)
  • Libya Safety and Stability Force
  • Al-Qaqaa Brigade
  • Sumood Front (created in June 2015, spilt from Misrata group and is under General National Congress
  • Revolutionaries of the Western Area (born in September 2015, to be confirmed)
  • Benghazi Defense Brigades (BDB) or Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB)
  • Libya Dawn or Operation Dawn (Faraj) (islamic militia coalition from Misrata town, allied with militia from Gharyan town)
    • Majlis al-Shura (islamist group linked to Libyan Dawn coalition)
    • Third Force of the Central Shield (militia based in Misrata)
    • Fajr Libya militia or Fajr Libya battalion (militia based in Tripoli)
  • Misrata’s 301 Brigade
  • Bab Tajoura Brigade
  • Ghanewa Brigade
  • Nawasi Brigade
  • Ajbabiya Revolutionaries Shoura Council (ARSC)
  • Islamic Youth Shura Council (allied with Islamic State terrorist group since November 2014)
  • Shura Mujahidin Council (SMC) or Shura Council of the Mujahedeen of Derna (since December 2014)
  • 7th Brigade or Seventh Brigade or Kanyat or Kaniyat
  • Harak Shabab Tarablus o Youth Movement of Tripoli (since September 2018)
  • Tripoli Protection Force (TPF)
  • Wilayat Barqa - Cyrenaica Region (ISIS branch in Libya since November 2019)
  • The Benghazi Revolutionary Shura Council or Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries (islamist militia composed by different groups) allied with Ansar al-Sharia
    • February 17 Martyrs Brigade

Mali 22

Since January 12 2013 french army along with malian army (with help of armies of others african countries) are fighting radical islamist groups
  • Army
  • Platform o Groupe Autodefense Touareg Imghad et Allies (GATIA) or Self-Defense Group of Touareg and Allies (GATIA) (alliance of pro-government militias, signed peace agreement with Coordination of Movements of Azawad (CMA) in October 2015. Howevery are referred clashes)
  • Coordination of Movements of Azawad (CMA) (5 rebel groups) (signed peace agreement with Malian government on June 2015 and with Platform pro-government coalition in October 2015)
    • National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad (MNLA) or National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) or Azawad National Liberation Movement (MNLA) is a Tuareg Movement since October 2011. Declared Azawad independent state on April 6 2012. (Signed ceasefire agreement on June 2013)
    • High Council for the Unity of Azawad (HCUA, Islamist)
    • Coordination for the People of Azawad (CPA) or People’s Coalition of Azawad (CPA, secular)
    • Arab Movement of Azawad (MAA) or Arab Movement of the Azawad (MAA)
    • Coordination of Movements and Patriotic Resistance Fronts (CM-FPR) or Coordination of Movements and Patriotic Resistance Fronts-2 (CMFPR-2) or Coordination of Movements and Fronts of Patriotic Resistance (CM-SAF)
  • Northern Mali Tuareg Movement (MTNM)
  • National Committee for the Reestablishment of Democracy and the Restoration of the State (CNRDR) (army with coup d’etat overthrow government on March 21 2012)
  • Islamic Movement for Azawad (IMA) (split from Ansar Dine in January 2013)
  • Al-Qaeda in West Africa (AQWA)
  • Patriots’ Resistance Movement for the Liberation of Timbuktu since June 2012 (opposes the secession of northern Mali by MNLA and Ansar Dine)
  • MAA-Dissident (splinter faction of Arab Movement of Azawad )
  • Al Quds Brigade or Al Furqan Battalion (branch of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM))
  • Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) or Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM) or Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) or Support of Islam and Muslims or The Support Group for Islam and the Muslims or Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM) or Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) (7 groups born in March 2017) pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda
    • Islamic Movement Ansar Dine (Helpers of Religion or Defenders of the Faith) linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
    • Al-Mourabitoun or Katibat al Murabitoon or al-Murabitoun battalion (jihadist group led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar) created by fusion of [Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA or MUJAO) or Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) or Mouvement Unicité et Jihad en Afrique de l’Ouest (MUJAO) or Movement for Unity and Jihad in the Islamic Maghreb (MUJWA) born by a split of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in the middle of 2011] and [Katibat Moulathamine or Masked Brigade or al-Mua’qi’oon Biddam (Those who Sign with Blood Brigade) or Signatories In Blood or Khaled Abul Abbas Brigade led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar who left al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in December 2012, killed in US attack in Libya on June 2015]
    • Macina Liberation Front (FLM) or Massina Liberation Front (FLM) or Macina Brigade or Katiba Macina (Islamist extremist group)
    • Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) or al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) since 2005 (know in the past as Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) since 2003)
    • Greater Sahara Brigade (GSB)
    • Islamic State in the Sahel or Islamic State in the Greater Sahel
    • Islamic State in Greater Sahara (ISGS) or Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) or Islamic State in the Sahara (ISS) or Islamic State in Burkina Faso & Mali (ISISBM)

Mauritania 1

Army
  • Ansar Allah group linked to al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)

Mozambique 2

Army
  • Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) (signed ceasefile with government on August 24 2014, signed peace agreement September 5 2014. New clashes in January 2016. Peace deal signed on August 7 2019)
  • al-Shabab (Jihadist group not linked to al-Shabaab somali group)

Niger 2

Army
  • Boko Haram (arriving from Nigeria)
  • different jihadist groups rage in the country

Nigeria 18

Are also reported continuing ethnic and religious clashes between muslims and christians in Plateau state
  • Army
  • Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) or Civilian JTF (local civilian militia)
  • Boko Haram (islamic sect led by Abubakar Shekau) since 2002 (A cease fire was signed with government on July 2013 no more active)
  • Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) or Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) West Africa Province or ISIS’s West Africa Province breackway faction of Boko Haram since August 2016 led by Abu Musab Al-Barnawi
  • Mend (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta)
  • Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF)
  • Ansaru or Vanguard for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa (islamist group since January 2012)
  • Ombatse sect
  • Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)
  • Reformed Indigenous People of Biafra (RE-IPOB)
  • The Rebranded Indigenous People of Biafra (TRIPOB)
  • Niger Delta Avengers (NDA)
  • Red Egbesu Water Lions (REWL) (since May 2016)
  • Supreme Egbesu Liberation Fighters (SELF)
  • Biafra National Guard (BNG)
  • Coalition of Niger Delta Militant Groups (4 groups)
    • Niger Delta Watchdogs
    • Niger Delta Volunteers
    • Niger Delta Peoples Fighters
    • Bakassi Freedom Fighters (BFF)

Puntland 1

Often there are clashes with Somaliland army
Army
  • Galgala militia (rebel fighters loyal to sheikh Mohamed Said Atom)

Republic of the Congo 1

Army
  • Ninjas (militia)

Rwanda 3

Army
  • Rwanda Hutu militia
  • Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR)
  • Rwanda National Congress (RNC)

Senegal 1

Army
  • Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) or Casamance Movement of Democratic Forces (MFDC) or Movement for the Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) (fighting since 1982 and now divided in 3 factions) (declared unilateral ceasefire on April 2014)

Somalia 14

  • Army
  • African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM)
    • Uganda
    • Kenya
    • Burundi
    • Sierra Leone
    • Djibouti
    • Nigeria
    • Ghana
    • Cameroon
    • Mali
    • Senegal
    • Zambia
  • Sufi Militia Ahlu Sunna Wal-jamaca (ASWJ) or Ahlusunna Waljamaaca or Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jamaah or Ahlu Sunna Waljamaa or Ahlu-Sunna Wal Jamaca or Ahlu Sunnah Waljama’a o Ahlu-Sunna Waljama’a (islamist group pro-government against al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam since March 17 2010)
  • Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen/Mujahideen Youth Movement (MYM)
  • Ras kamboni movement, pro somali government, active in Jubaland or Azania
  • Shabelle Valley Administration (SVA) (militia of Shabelle Valley, pro somali government even though is not recognized by Central Government)
  • Al-Shabaab somali islamist group linked to al-Qaeda (in December 2011 has changed its name in Imaarah Islamiya, new leader is Ahmed Umar Abu Ubaida since September 2014)
  • Hizbul Islam or Islamic Party islamist group (born on 4 February 2009 by the union of 4 groups)
  • Hisb al-Islam
  • Rahanweyn Resistance Army or Reewin Resistance Army (RRA) active in Somalia’s State of Southwestern since 1995
  • Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) or Al-Etihad Al-Islamiya
  • Warlord Ali Khalif Galaydh and its loyal tribal militia
  • Ahmed Madobe’s militia (leader of Interim Jubba Administration) against Government
  • Jahba East Africa (group has pledged allegiance to ISIS) since April 2016
  • Forces loyal to Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansour

Somaliland 4

Often there are clashes with Puntland army
Army
  • Sool, Sanag, Cayn (SSC)
  • Northern Somalia Unionist Movement (NSUM) and its army wing Sool Sanaag Cayn Army (SSCA) (splinter group of SSC)
  • SSC-Khatumo (tribal militia loyal to Somalia’s former Prime Minister, Ali Khalif Galayr who is searching to create Khaatumo State or Khatumo State or Khatuumo State)
  • Sultan Wabar led a group of anarchists

South Sudan 31

Army
  • National Transitional Council (NTC) (formed by 4 rebel groups SSLA, SSDM, NDF and SSDF)
  • South Sudan Liberation Army (SSLA) militia of Peter Gadet Yak (peace agreement with government on April 2013)
  • South Sudan Democratic Movement (SSDM) or South Sudan Democratic Movement/Army (SSDM/A) and its military wing South Sudan Democratic Army (SSDA) of George Athor Deng (peace agreement with government on April/May 2013)
  • National Democratic Front (NDF)
  • South Sudan Defence Forces (SSDF) (peace agreement with government on April-May 2013)
  • People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) or Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N) (affiliate to Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M))
  • Philip Bepan militia (active in South Sudan)
  • The National Democratic Front since September 25 2011
  • Gatluak Gai militia (active in South Sudan)
  • Militia Gabriel Tang, also called Tang Ginye (active in South Sudan)
  • David Yau Yau forces (rebel group accepted ceasefire on January 7 2014)
  • Johnson Oliny ethnic militia
  • Ultan Abdel Bagi Ayii Akol militia
  • Peter Lorot militia
  • South Sudan People Liberation Movement and its military wing (South Sudan People Liberation Army) (SSPLM/SSPLA) led by Major General Tong Lual Ayat (since December 2011)
  • Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM in Opposition) or Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army In Opposition (SPLM/A In Opposition) or Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO) or Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement-In-Opposition (SPLM-IO) or Sudan People’s Liberation Army-in-Opposition (SPLA-IO) led by Machar (peace agreement with government on June 2018, in May 2014, later in June 2018)
  • Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/ Army-In-Opposition (SPLM/A-IO) under General Simon Gatwech Dual (signed peace agreement with Government on January 2022)
  • South Sudan Resistance Army (SSRA) led by Lul Ruai Koang present in Lou Nuer since March 2015
  • Nyarango Boys (present in Western Equatoria state)
  • Revolution Movement for National Salvation (REMNASA) (merged with Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement-In-Opposition (SPLM-IO) on October 2015)
  • South Sudan National Liberation Movement (SSNLM) (active in Western Equatoria, signed ceasefire with government on November 18 2015)
  • Ambororo Arab militia
  • South Sudan People’s Patriotic Front (SSPPF) or South Sudan People Patriotic Front (SSPPF) or Arrow Boys (AB) since November 2015 (consists in different local groups)
  • South Sudan Federal Party (SSFP) and its armed wing South Sudan Armed Forces (SSAF) (new rebel faction since December 2015)
  • Tiger Faction New Forces (TFNF)
  • South Sudan United Movement (SSUM) (led by General Peter Gatdet Yaka)
  • New rebel faction split from SPLA-IO and joined General Agany Ayii
  • National Salvation Front led by Thomas Cirilo (NAS-TC) or National Salvation Front (NAS) or National Salvation Front (NASA) led by general Thomas Cirilo Swaka
  • National Resistance Front/Army (NRF/A) since October 2017
  • NPAM/F of South Sudan (rebel group born in December 2017 by fusion of National People’s Alliance Forces (NPAF) and South Sudan Freedom Movement/Army SSFM/A)
  • South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF)

Sudan 27

Government fights also Darfur population from 2003. Are also reported continuing clashes with rebels:
  • Army
  • Popular Defense Forces (PDF)
  • Rapid Support Forces (RSF) (RSF)
  • Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) since 2002
  • Popular Defence Forces (PDF) (pro government paramilitary group)
  • Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
  • Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) or Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) alliance formed by 11 rebel groups (September 1 2020 signed had signed peace agreement with Government):
    • Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M) or Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N) or Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army North (SPLM/A-N) and its military wing Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) or Sudan People Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) or Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N)
    • Sudanese Revolutionary Front led by Agar (SRF-Agar) or Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/North (SPLM/N)-Agar (SPLM-N-Agar) faction led by Malik Agar or Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North of Malik Agar (SPLM-N Agar)
    • People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-al-Hilu) led by Abdel Aziz al-Hilu or Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/North (SPLM/N)-Agar (SPLM-N-Hilu) faction led by Abdel Aziz al-Hilu or Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/North (SPLM/N)-Agar (SPLM-N-Hilu) or Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North led by Abdel Aziz al-Hilu (SPLM-Nal-Hilu) or rSPLM-N Abdel Aziz al-Hilu or Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) led by Abdelaziz al-Hilu
    • Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) of Gibril Ibrahim since 2006 (had signed a ceasefire with Government on February 2010 New peace talks in Doha on October 2012. Signed ceasefire agreement on February 2013).
    • Justice and Equality Movement-Military Council (JEM-MC) or JEM-Military Council (JEM-MC) faction (Peace talks in Doha on December 2012)
    • Sudan Liberation Movement Abdel Wahid (SLM-Nur) Abdul Wahid al Nur and its armed wing Sudan Liberation Army-Abdel Wahid (SLA-AW) or Sudan’s Liberation Movement of Abdel Wahid Nur (SLM-AW) or Sudan Liberation Movement – Abdel Wahid al-Nur (SLM-AW) or Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM-AW) led by Abdel-Wahid al-Nur or Darfur Front for Injustice Rebuttal (signed peace deal on March 18 2013)
    • Sudanese Revolutionary Front led by Minni Minnawi (SRF-MM) or Sudan Liberation Movement Minni Minnawi (SLM-Minnawi) or Sudan Liberation Movement led by Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM) or Sudan Liberation Movement of Mani Arkoi Minnawi (SLM-MM) or Sudan Liberation Movement-Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM) and its armed wing Sudan Liberation Army-Minni Minnawi (SLA-MM) or Sudan Liberation Army of Minni Minnawi (SLA-MM) active in Darfur
    • National Umma Party-Naser al-Din
    • United Popular Front for Liberation and Justice (UPFLJ)
    • Partito Nazionale Umma-Naser al-Din
    • Sudan Liberation Movement - Transitional Council (SLM-TC) or Sudan Liberation Movement Transitional Council (SLMTC)

Darfur 12:

  • Sudan Liberation Movement – Revolutionary Forces (SLM-RF) since 2006
  • National Redemption Front (NRF) since 2006
  • Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) group, includes 10 smaller rebel groups since February 2010 (has signed a ceasefire with Sudanese Government on July 14 2011)
  • Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) faction led by Ali Karbino
  • National Liberation and Justice Party (NLJP) led by Tijani al-Sissi (active in Darfur)
  • Sudan Liberation Movement/Army - The 2nd Revolution (SLM/A-SR) or Sudan Liberation Movement (Second Revolution) (SLM-SR) (rebel faction active in Darfur)
  • New Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement (NEW JEM or NJEM) led by Abdallah Banda (active in Darfur and a breakaway faction from rebel group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM))
  • Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) led by Mansour Arbab
  • Sudan Liberation Movement/Army for Justice (SLM/A-J) or Sudan Liberation Movement for Justice (SLMJ) (rebel faction active in Darfur)
  • Youth Movement for Darfur (YMD)
  • Sudan Liberation Force Alliance (SLFA) or Sudan Liberation Forces Alliance (SLFA)
  • Musa Hilal (leader militia)

Tunisia 1

Army
  • Uqba bin Nafi or Akba Ibn Nafaa or Uqba Ibn Nafi Battalion or Phalange Okba Ibn Nafaa or Katibat Okba Ibn Nafaa or Okba Bin Nafaa or Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade (branch of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and alleate of Islamic State group since September 2014)

Uganda 4

Army
  • Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) born on 1987 against Uganda and Congo armed forces
  • Al-Shabaab somali islamist group
  • Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) or Allied Democratic Forces - National Liberation Army of Uganda (ADF / NALU) or Allied Defense Forces-NALU rebels active in Democratic Republic of Congo in North Kivu, South Kivu, Maniema and Katanga provinces
  • Rwenzururu kingdom Separatist Militia

Western Sahara 1

Maroccan Army
  • Sahrawi People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) wing of Polisario Front against Maroc occupation

ASIA:

(16 Countries and 205 between militias-guerrillas, terrorist-separatist-anarchic groups involved)

Hot Spots:
-Afghanistan (Taliban took the power in August 2021)
-Burma-Myanmar (war against rebel groups)
-Pakistan (war against islamist militants)
-Philippines (war against islamist militants)
-Thailand (coup d’etat by army May 2014)

Afghanistan 11

  • Quetta Shura led by Mullah Akhtar Mansoor
  • High Council of Afghanistan Islamic Emirate lead by Mullah Mohammad Rasool and Mansoor Dadullah as deputy (since November 2015, splinter group of Quetta Shura)
  • Haqqani Network
  • Peshawar Shura (east Afghanistan)
  • Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) or Hezb-i-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (HIG) or Hezb-e-Islami (since 1977) (signed peace deal with government in May 2016, signed draft peace deal on September 2016)
  • Hezb-e Islami Khalis (HIK) (since 1979)
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) or Afghan Taliban (led by Mullah Akhtar Mansour)
  • Mullah Dadullah Front (since May 2012)
  • Forces of People Uprising (taliban militia loyal to Zahir Qadir)
  • Northern Alliance or National Resistance Front (NRF) or United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (recreated in July 2015 by ex 3 war lords and by Ahmad Massoud in 2021)
  • Khorasan Province (Afghan wing of Islamic State group)

Bangladesh 4

Army
  • al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent or Qaedat al-Jihad in the Indian Subcontinent (since September 2014, its leader is Asim Umar, group will be active in Bangladesh and also in India (Assam, Gujarat, Ahmedabad and Kashmir) and Burma-Myanmar)
  • Ansar al Islam Bangladesh-2 or Ansar al-Islam (linked to al-Qaeda)
  • Jamaat’ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) or Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)
  • Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami

Burma-Myanmar 62

  • Army or Tatmadaw
  • Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) or Border Guard Force (BGF)
  • Rebellion Resistance Force (RRF)
  • People’s Militia Force (PMF)
  • Mung Paw Militia (Mung Paw Pyi Tu Tsits) (local militia groups backed by Burmese Army)
  • Ah Dang militia
  • New Democratic Army Kachin (NDAK)
  • Da Law (militia)
  • Sinbo (militia)
  • Pyu-Saw-Htee or Pyu Saw Htee (militia) created by ultranationalist Association for Protection of Race and Religion (APRR) known as Ma Ba Tha
  • 10 Members of the Alliance United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), whose armed wing is Federal Union Army (FUA) is divided in two military regions, northern region and southern region:
    • Karenni Army (KA) armed wing of Karenni National Progressive party (KNPP) in southern region
    • New Mon State Party (NMSP) (signed first deal of ceasefire with Government on February 1 2012) in southern region
    • Pa-O National Liberation Organization (PNLO) or Pa’o National Liberation Organization (PNLO) or Paoh National Organization (PNO) or Pa-O National Liberation Organisation (PNO) and its armed wing Paoh National Army (PNA) (signed cease-fire in October 2015)
    • Chin National Front (CNF) (signed ceasefire agreement in October 2015)
    • Kachin Independence Army (KIA) armed wing of Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) (signed cease-fire on May 2013) in northern region
    • Kachin People Militia (MHH) or Kachin People’s Militia (MHH)
    • Shan State Progress Party / Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) or Shan State Army-North (SSA-North) or SSA-N (signed ceasefire on January 2012) in northern region
    • Arakan Liberation Army (ALA) armed wing of Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) (signed ceasefire agreement in October 2015)
    • Lahu Democratic Union (LDU)
    • Wa National Organization (WNO) in northern region
  • Kawthoolei Armed Forces (KAF) or Kawthoolei Army (Organization formed by 4 Karen rebel groups)
    • Etnic militia of Karen National Union (KNU) whose armed wing is Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) since 1949 (signed ceasefire in October 2015) exit from Alliance United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) on September 2014, southern region
    • Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) (a splinter group born from Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA)) (signed ceasefire with government in October 2015)
    • Karen National Defense Organization (KNDO)
    • Karen National Union/Karen National Liberation Army Peace Council (KNU/KNLA-PC) or KNU/KNLA Peace Council or Karen National Liberation Army-Peace Council (signed ceasefire with government in October 2015)
  • Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army-South (RCSS/SSA-S) or Restoration Council of Shan State/ Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) or Shan State Army-South (SSA-S) (signed ceasefire with government in October 2015)
  • National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) or National Democratic Alliance Army-Eastern Shan State (NDAA-ESS) or Eastern Shan State Army (ESSA) or Mongla Army or Mong La or Mongla Group (since 1989)
  • Brigade 5 faction within (DKBA) (reached ceasefire with government on November 2011)
  • God’s Army (was an offshoot of the Karen National Union)
  • Klo Htoo Wah or DKBA’s Klo Htoo Wah (splinter faction of Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA)) or Klohtoobaw Karen Organization (KKO)
  • Shan rebels of Myanmar Peace and Democracy Front (MPDF)
  • United Wa State Army (UWSA) armed wing of United Wa State Party (UWSP) since 1989 (UWSA signed ceasefire agreement with government on 6 September 2011)
  • Lahu National Democratic Front [LNDF]
  • Mong Tai Army (MTA)
  • Kuki National Army (KNA)
  • Kuki National Army - Myanmar (KNA-B)
  • Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA) since 1993 armed wing of Zomi Revolutionary Organization (ZRO) or Zomi Reunification Organization (ZRO)
  • All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF) or All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF) or All Burma Student United Front (ABSDF) (signed ceasefire with government in October 2015)
  • al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent or Qaedat al-Jihad in the Indian Subcontinent (since September 2014, its leader is Asim Umar, group will be active in Burma-Myanmar and also in India (Assam, Gujarat, Ahmedabad and Kashmir) and Bangladesh)
  • Chin National Liberation Army (CNLA)
  • Shanni Nationalities Army (SNA) or Shan Nationalities Army (SNA) (Red Shan poeple in northern Burma since January 2016)
  • Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) or Democratic Kayin Buddhist Army (DKBA) (breakaway Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) faction)
  • Democratic Karen Buddhist Army - Kyaw Htet (DKBA-KH)
  • Manpang People’s Militia
  • Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) or Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO)
  • Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA)
  • Arakan Rohingya Army (ARA)
  • Aqa Mul Mujahidin (AMM) (Islamic organization)
  • Lisu People’s Militia or Lisu People Militia (led by Saw Nam)
  • Chinland Defense Force (CDF) (since April 2021)
  • Chinland Defense Force-Thantlang (CDF-T)
  • Chin Defense Force-Mindat (CDF-Mindat)
  • Karenni People’s Defense Force (PDF) formed by civilian resistance fighters
  • National League for Democracy (NLD)
  • Myanmar Royal Dragon Army (MRDA)
  • Cobra Column (resistance group)
  • Zofe Chin Defense Force (CDF)
  • Brotherhood Alliance or Northern Alliance (Organizzazione composta da 4 gruppi ribelli)
    • Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF) or Palong State Liberation Front (PSLF) (whose armed wing is Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) or Tan’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) or Ta’ang (Palaung) National Liberation Army (TNLA) or Ta’ang National Liberation Army/Palaung State Liberation Force (TNLA/PSLF)) in northern region
    • Arakan Army (AA) or Buddhist Arakan Army (AA) founded in 2009 and linked with National United Party of Arakan (NUPA)
    • Kokang etnic militia Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) or Kokang Democracy Party or Kokang Army since 1989, in northern region (declared cease-fire on January 11 2015)
    • Bamar People’s Liberation Army (BPLA) since 2021

China 1

Army
  • East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) or East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) or Turkistan Islamic Movement (TIM)

India 45

Sometimes are reported clashes at border between India army and Pakistan army
Army
  • Islamics separatists of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) since 1977
  • Hizbul Mujahideen (HuM) or Hezb-ul Mujahedeen (HuM) or Hizbul Mujaheddin (Hum) since 1989
  • Maoists of Orissa since 2004
  • Maoists Naxalites of Communist Party of India (CPI) of Jharkhand since 1967
  • Communist Party of India (Maoist) since 2004 after merger of Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) People’s War, usually called People’s War Group (PWG) and Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI)
  • National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) or Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) (signed peace accord in August 2015)
  • Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) or National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) or National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-Khaplang)
  • National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM)
  • People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA)
  • National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)
  • National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-RB) (led by Ranjan Daimary)
  • People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA)
  • Indian Mujahideen since 2008
  • Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA)
  • People’s Liberation Front of India (ANI)
  • Al-Badr
  • al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent or Qaedat al-Jihad in the Indian Subcontinent (since September 2014, its leader is Asim Umar, group will be active in India (Assam, Gujarat, Ahmedabad and Kashmir) and also in Burma-Myanmar and Bangladesh)
  • Manipur Peoples Liberation Front (Organization formed by 3 separatist groups)
    • People’s Liberation Army of Manipur (PLA) (insurgent group in Manipur state)
    • United National Liberation Front (UNLF) since 1964 (insurgent group in Manipur state)
    • People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) since 1977 (insurgent group in Manipur state)
  • United Liberation Front of Western South East Asia (UNLFW) (Organization formed by 4 separatist groups)
    • United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) or United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) since 1979 (ceased fire was signed with Government on September 4 2011)
    • Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) or Katampur Liberation Organization (KLO) or Kamatapur Liberation Organization (KLO) (operates in West Bengal and Assam and is fighting for a sovereign State)
    • National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-S) (led by IK-Songbijit) or National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) (Songbijit faction) or National Democratic Front of Boroland (Songbijit faction) or National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) (Songbijit) or Songbijit Brahma faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-S)
  • Adivashi Peoples Army (APA) (laid down arms in January 2011)
  • All Adivashi National Liberation Army (AANLA) (laid down arms in January 2011)
  • Santhal Tiger Force (STF) (laid down arms in January 2011)
  • Birsa Commando Force (BCF) (laid down arms in January 2011)
  • Adivashi Cobra Military of Assam (ACMA) (laid down arms in January 2011)
  • Kuki Liberation Organisation (KLO) and its army wing Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) (laid down arms in January 2011)
  • Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) (laid down arms in January 2011)
  • Hmar People’s Convention (HPC) (laid down arms in January 2011)
  • United Kukigam Defence Army (UKDA) (laid down arms in January 2011)
  • People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) breakaway maoist faction of the Communist Party of India (CPI)
  • National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) since 1989
  • All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) since 1990
  • United People’s Party of Kangleipak (UPPK)
  • Naga Revolutionary Front (NRF)
  • Tritya Prastuti Committee (TPC) or Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) maoist rebels, breakaway maoist faction of the Communist Party of India (CPI)
  • Achik National Volunteers Council (ANVC)
  • Revolutionary Communist Centre (RCC) splinter group of CPI (Maoist)
  • Coordination Committee (CorCom)
  • Wilayah of Hind (Islamic State (IS) province)

Indonesia 7

Army
  • Free Papua Movement (FPM) o Free Papua Merdeka (OPM) o Organasi Papua Merdeka (OPM)
  • West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) linked to Free Papua Movement (OPM)
  • Islamist group Jemaah Islamiyah or Jemaah Islamiah (JI), linked to al-Qaeda, since 1993
  • few separatist rebel groups in Aceh
  • FAI Informal Anarchist Federation, Indonesia Section
  • Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD)
  • Mujahidin Indonesia Timur (MIT) or Sulawesi-based East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT)

Kazakhstan 1

Army
  • Kazakh Mujahideen (islamist group)

Koreas

    Skirmishes at border between North Korea and South Korea

Kyrgyzstan 1

Army
  • Hizb ut-Tahrir (islamist group)

Nepal 2

Army
  • People’s Liberation Army (PLA), armed wing of Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) since 1994 (signed peace agreement on January 2012)
  • Nepal Communist Party or Communist Party of Nepal or Communist Party of Nepal (Revolutionary Maoist) or CPN (RM) led by Netra Bikram Chand (splinter group of Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)) (signed peace agreement with government on March 2021)

Pakistan 31

  • Army
  • Towheaded ul Islam (TUL) pro-government movement
  • Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) or Lashkar-e-Toiba (Let) since 1990
  • Shohad Brigade (maybe linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let))
  • Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan or Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or Pakistani Taliban (ceasefire until April 10 2014)
    • Janud-e-Hafsa faction
  • Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) South Waziristan (split from Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on May 28 2014)
  • Tehrik e Taleban Jamaat ul Ahrar (JuA) or Jamatul Ahrar (JuA) or Jamaat-ul-Ahrar TTP (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) or Jamaat-ul-Ahrar TTP (Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan) or Jamaat al-Ahrar/Free Group (FG) (TTP) or Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction (breakway faction of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan Jamaat-ul-Ahrar or Jumaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) or Jamaat-ur-Ahrar (JuA) (since September 2014)
  • Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) or Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) or Baluch Liberation Army (BLA) or Baluch Liberation (BLA) since 2000
  • Shahzain Bugti’s movement (Balochistan separatists)
  • United Baloch Army (UBA)
  • Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) or Baloch Liberation Front (BLF)
  • Baloch Raji Ajoi Sangar (BRAS) composed by 4 Baloch separatist organizations
  • Sindudesh Revolutionary Army (SRA)
  • Baloch Republican Army (BRA)
  • Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) or Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) or Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM)
  • Punjab Taliban or Tehrik-e-Taliban Punjab
  • Abdullah Azzam Shaheed Brigade (AASB) linked to al-Qaeda
  • Haqqani Network lead by Jalaluddin Haqqani in North Waziristan linked to al-Qaeda since 2006
  • Jihad Islami
  • 313 Brigade (a unit of organisation of Bangladesh militant group called Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami (HUJI))
  • Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LiJ) or Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LiJ) or Lashkar-e Jhangvi Al-Alami (LiJ) or Lashkar e Jhangvi (LeJ) or Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Alami
  • Jund al-Khilafah or Soldiers of the Caliphate
  • Harkat-ul Mujahideen al-Alami
  • Lashkar-e-Islam (LEI) or Lashkar-e-Islami (LEI) or Lashkar-i-Islam (LEI)
  • Lashkar-i-Balochistan
  • Jundullah or Jandullah (splinter group of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) linked to al-Qaeda)
  • Party of Freedom Fighters (split from Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JUA))
  • Islamic State’s Khorasan Province (ISKP)
  • Hizbul Ahrar (HA) or Hib ul Ahrar (HuA) a Pakistani Taliban faction
  • Clashes between regular army and talibans rebels in (South Waziristan since 2008)
  • Sometimes are reported clashes between Pakistan army and India army, first war was on 1949

Philippines 20

  • Army
  • Pulahan or Red Warriors of God or Red God Defenders (Christians militia of 300 men in Mindanao since January 2016)
  • Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) since 1990 (islamic separatist group)
  • Ajang Ajang (Abu Sayyaf faction)
  • Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) since 1978 (islamic separatist group) Reached peace deal with government on October 2012. Signed peace agreement on January 25 2014 and March 2014.
  • Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM) and its armed wing Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) (breakaway faction from Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) that fights for a Bangsamoro independent)
  • Bangsamoro Islamic Liberation Movement (BILM) since 2011 (breakaway faction of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)
  • Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF)-Karialan faction
  • Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF)-Bungos faction
  • Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) since 1969
  • Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPA-ABB) since 1994
  • Royal Army of the Sultanate of Sulu
  • Mujahidin Indonesia Timur
  • Ansaru’l Khilafah Philippines (group aligned with Islamic State (IS) terrorist group)
  • Maute group (linked to Islamic State (IS) terrorist group)
  • Dawlah Islamiya (DI)
  • National Democratic Front (NDF) or National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) truce started on July 2016. Peace signed and war ended on August 2016
    • Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) (truce with government since December 20 2012 to January 15 2013. truce started on July 2016. War end on August 2016)
    • New People’s Army (NPA) (armed wing of Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) since 1969) truce started on July 2016. War end on August 2016. War restarted on February 2017
    • Komiteng Larangang Guerrilla (KLG) Sierra Madre (belonging to New People’s Army (NPA))
    • The North Central Mindanao Regional Committee (belonging to New People’s Army (NPA))

Sri Lanka 4

Army
  • Upsurging People’s Force since 2006
  • People’s Liberation Front
  • Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
  • National Thowheeth Jamàath (NTJ) or National Thowheed Jamath radical Muslim group

Tajikistan 3

Army
  • Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) based in Tajikistan and linked to al-Qaeda (since October 2014 declared support to Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS))
  • Armed groups lead by Mirzokhouja Ahmadov and Mullo Sayriddin (surrendered to Government Forces on October 2010)
  • Islamic movement Hizb ut-Tahrir

Thailand 12 (coup d’etat by army May 22 2014)

Army
  • MARA Patani or Pattani Consultative Council (Umbrella group composed by 6 groups)
    • Pattani United Liberation Organisation (PULO) or Patani United Liberation Organisation (PULO) or Patani Liberation Organisation (PULO) (composed by 3 groups)
    • Barisan Islam Pembebesan Pattani (BIPP) or Barisan Islam Perberbasan Pattani (BIPP) or Islamic Liberation Front of Patani or Barisan Islam Pembebasan Patani (BIPP) or National Liberation Front of Patani (NLFP)
    • Barisan Revolusi Nasional Melayu Patani (BRN) or Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) or National Revolution Front (BRN) (March 2013 started peace talks)
    • Gerakan Mujahideen Islami Pattani (GMIP) or Pattani Islamic Mujahideen Movement (GMIP) or Gerakan Mujahideen Islam Patani (GMIP)

  • National Revolutionary Front Coordinate Patani Malay (BRN-C) or Barisan Revolusi Nasional Patani-Melayu-Koordinasi (BRN-Coordinate)
  • BRN-Congress
  • BRN-Ulama
  • Mujahideen Islamic Pattani Group (BBMP) or United Mujahideen Front of Pattani (BBMP)
  • Pattani Independence Fighters seeks to create a state called Pattani Darulsalam (Islamic Land of Pattani)
  • Patani Liberation Army (PLA)
  • Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) since 2004

Uzbekistan 1

Army
  • Uzbekistan’s Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) or Islamic Jihad Group (IJG)

EUROPE:

(10 Countries and 93 between militias-guerrillas, separatist groups and anarchic groups involved)

Hot Spots:
-Chechnya (war against islamist militants),
-Dagestan (war against islamist militants)
-Ukraine (war against Russia and secessionists of self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic)
-Artsakh ex Nagorno-Karabakh) (clashes between Azerbaijan army against Armenian army and Nagorno-Karabakh army)

France 5

Since January 12 2013 french army along with malian army (with help of armies of others african countries) are fighting islamist radical groups that have seized north of Mali.
Army
  • National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC) or Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC) or Fronte di Liberazione Naziunale Corsu (FLNC) previously divided in Brigades Révolutionnaires Corses (BRC) (on December 2014, announces the end of armed struggle. On October 2019 announces the return of armed struggle)
  • Armée de Libération Nationale Corse (ALNC) against french presence in the isle since 1976
  • Ghjuventù Clandestina Corsa (GCC)
  • Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS)
  • Field Action Co-ordination Cell (CCAT)

Georgia

  • After war between Georgia and Russia/Abkazia/South Ossezia in 2008, sometimes have been reported tensions at border

Greece 16

Army
  • Revolutionary Struggle (Ea) or Popular Struggle (Ea) or Group of Popular Fighters
  • Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire (Spf)
  • Sect of Revolutionaries (SR)
  • Zero Tolerance (anarchist group)
  • Cospirazione delle cellule di fuoco/Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/ Fronte Rivoluzionario Internazionale (IRF)
  • Fronte Rivoluzionario Internazionale (IRF)/ Cospirazione delle cellule di fuoco/ Gruppi rivoluzionari per la diffusione del terrore nucleo dei vandali.
  • Fronte Rivoluzionario Internazionale (IRF)/ Complicità terrorista guerrieri dell’abisso comando Severino di Giovanni
  • Fronte Rivoluzionario Internazionale (IRF)/Condotte devianti per la diffusione del terrorismo rivoluzionario/ Cellula d’azione anarchica
  • Cellula di Solidarietà Rivoluzionaria-Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)
  • Fronte Rivoluzionario Anarchico/condotte devianti per la diffusione del terrorismo rivoluzionario/Cellula di attacco riflessivo
  • FAI/Cell of Aggressive Coscience
  • Fronte Rivoluzionario Internazionale (IRF)/Cospirazione cellule di fuoco/ Gruppi rivoluzionari per la diffusione del terrore/ Cellula Anormal-Heretics
  • “Partnership of Anarchist Organizations” Wild Freedom
  • Instigators of Social Explosions
  • Fighting Popular Revolutionary Forces (extreme left)
  • Cell of Revenge “Carlo Giuliani” (anarchist group)

Italy 28

Army
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)//Fronte Rivoluzionario Internazionale (FRI) (FAI/FRI)
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/Cellula Rivoluzionaria Lambros Fountas since 2003
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/Cooperativa Artigiana fuoco e affini (occasionalmente spettacolare)/Fronte Rivoluzionario Internazionale
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/Brigata 20 Luglio/Fronte Rivoluzionario Internazionale (FRI)
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/Sorelle in armi nucleo Mauricio Morales/ Fronte Rivoluzionario Internazionale
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/Solidarietà Internazionale
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/Rivolta Animale
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/Nucleo Rivoluzionario Horst Fantazzini
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/Cellule contro il Capitale il Carcere i suoi Carcerieri e le sue Celle
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/Cellule armate per la solidarietà internazionale
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/Rivolta Anonima Terribile (RAT)
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/Cellule metropolitane
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/Narodnaja Vojla
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/Cellula Olga (maybe it refers on Olga Ekonomidou, member of Cospirazione delle cellule di fuoco - Fronte Rivoluzionario Internazionale (FAI-(FRI))
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/gruppo 22 maggio (since May 2012)
  • Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/Cellula Santiago Maldonado (since 2017)
  • Il Silvestre (anarchist ecologist group)
  • Gruppi armati patriottici (Gap) since 2011
  • Nucleo Galesi per i Pac (Proletari Armati per il Comunismo)
  • Movimento Armati Proletari
  • Movimento Fronte Rivoluzionario since 2011
  • Gruppi Armati Proletari (GAP) (since May 2012, to confirm reliability)
  • Brigate Rosse, Brigata Gino Liverani ‘Diegò’ (since May 2012, to confirm reliability)
  • Nar Nucleo Armato Rivoluzionario Giuseppe Valerio Il Giusta (Nar) (since May 2012, to confirm reliability)
  • Animal Liberation Front
  • New Red Brigade - C.A.C. or Nuove Brigate Rosse - C.A.C. (existence not confirmed)
  • Nuclei Operativi Armati (NOA) since February 19 2014 (existence not confirmed)
  • Haris Hatzimihelakis/Internazionale o Cellula Haris Hatzimichelakis/Internazionale nera (1881-2018) (since August 2018, existence not confirmed)

Artsakh (ex Nagorno-Karabakh) will cease to exist from 1 January 2024

  • Clashes at Artsakh (ex Nagorno-Karabakh) border between Armenia and Azerbaijan

Northern Ireland 9

Army
  • Ulster Defense Association (UDA) since 1971 claims its actions in Northern Ireland under name of Ulster Freedom Fighters (Protestant)
  • Red Hand Defenders since 1998 (Protestant)
  • Ulster Young Militants since 1974 (Protestant)
  • Ulster Resistance since 1989 (Protestant)
  • Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) (Protestant)
  • Orange Volunteers since 1998 (Protestant)
  • Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) or The Continuity IRA since 1986 (republican paramilitary group)
  • Real Irish Republican Army or Real Ira since 1997 (Republican)
  • Irish Republican Army (created by former members of the Provisional IRA) since April 2011

Russia 19

Army
  • Caucasus Mujahideens also called Mujahideen of Idel Ural (Independentist chechen islamic militia in Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan since 1991)
  • islamic separatist Movement of North Caucasus Emirate (Independentist islamic militia chechen in Ingushetia and Dagestan since 1991)
  • Caucasus Emirate (Independentist chechen islamic militia in Chechnya)
  • Caucasus Emirate’s United Province of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachays (KBK) or Command of Kabarda, Balkaria e Karachai Provinces
  • Riyad-us-Saliheen Martyrs’ Brigade (Ingush Mujahideen Commander)
  • Far Eastern guerrillas
  • Mujahideen Command of Province of Ingushetia or Mujahideen Command of the Province of Ghalghaycho of the Caucasus Emirate
  • Jamaat Nogai (Nogai Battalion) wahabite islamist group
  • Caspian terrorist group (present in Dagestan)
  • At-Takfir Wal-Hijra (maybe linked to egyptian group At-Takfir Wal-Hijra)
  • ELF Russia Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)/International Network of action e solidarity/Fronte Rivoluzionario Internazionale
  • Tatarstan’s mujahedin (to verify if exists)
  • Vilayat Dagestan
  • Anars Al Sunna
  • Imarat Kavkaz (terrorist organization)
  • Wilayat Qawqaz (Caucasus Province) since June 2015 and affiliate to Islamic Stato (IS) consists by differenti jihadist groups in Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and other Muslim-majority regions of the Russian Caucasus
  • Freedom for Russia Legion or Freedom of Russia Legion (FRL)
  • Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK)
  • Siberian Battalion (SB)

Spain 2

Army
  • Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Eta) Basque Country separatist group since 1968 (October 20 2011 has declared a definitive cessation of its armed activity, complete disarm made on April 8 2017, complete dissolution on May 2 2018)
  • Comando Insurrecional Mateo Morral (anarchist group)

Turkey 6

(fights between regular army (Clashes between turkish and syrian armies since October 2012)
Army
  • Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels since 1978 (cease-fire concluded on February 2011. New cease-fire since March 21 2013)
    • People’s Defense Forces (HPG) (armed wing of PKK)
  • Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (Tak) or Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) or Kurdish Freedom Hawks (TAK) since 2004
  • Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) far-left group since 1978
  • Peoples’ United Revolutionary Movement (formed by 10 armed groups TKP/ML, PKK, THKP-C/MLSPB, MKP, TKEP-LENİNİST, TİKB, DKP, DEVRÎMCÎ KARARGAH and MLKP since March 2016)
  • Hasm

Ukraine 8

  • Army
  • Belarusian Volunteer Battalion Kastus Kalinovsky
  • Azov Battalion
  • Atesh Resistance Movement (partisan group)
  • Rebels of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic
  • Rebels of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic
  • Popular Front Novorossia (army of European Federated States of Novorossia or New Russia, a new State create after a referedum not recognized with union of Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic in May 24 2014)
  • Death Battalion (almost 300 chechen fighters)
  • Ukrainian Insurgent Army

MIDDLE EAST:

(7 Countries and 268 between militias-guerrillas, terrorist-separatist-anarchic groups involved)

Hot Spots:
-Iraq (war against Islamic State islamist militants)
-Israel (war against islamist militants in Gaza Strip)
-Syria (civil war), Yemen (war against and between islamist militants)

Iran 7

Army
  • sunni group Jundallah or Soldiers of God or People’s Resistance Movement of Iran (PRMI) since 2003
  • Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê (PJAK) or Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) or Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) or Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) since 2004
  • People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) or Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) or Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) or Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) left-wing Islamic group or People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) or People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) (based in Iraq, but against Islamic Republic of Iran) since 1965
  • Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI)
  • Ahvaz National Resistance (ANR) seeks a separate State in Khuzestan province
  • Jaish al-Adl or Jaish ul-Adl (Army of Justice) sunni insurgent group from Balochistan (Pakistan)
    • Martyr Sheikh Ziaie brigade

Iraq 53

  • Army
  • Sahwa a Qaim or Sahwa militia or Sons of Iraq or National Council for the Awakening of Iraq or Awakening Council (pro-government militia)
  • Popular Mobilisation Force or Popular Mobilization Forces or Popular Mobilisation Front or Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) or Sunni National Mobilization Forces or Sunni militia Hashd al-Watani or al-Hashd al-Sha’bi or Hashd Shaabi or Hashid Shaabi o Hashd al-Shaabi or Hashid al-Shaabi or Hashed al-Shaabi group (predominantly Shiite Iranian-backed paramilitary force, pro-government militia made by groups composed by Shiite volunteer fighters of allied militias and allied Sunni paramilitary tribal fighters)
  • Peshmerga or Peshmerge (kurdish fighters) army of Kurdistan State inside Iraq
  • Kurdistan Democracy Party (KDP)
  • Kirkuk Resistance Units (KRU) (kurdish fighters)
  • Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS) or Êzîdxan Protection Force (YBS) or Protection Force of Sinjar or HPŞ or Sinjar Defense Units (YBS) or Sinjar Protection Force (YBS) or Hêza Parastina Êzîdxanê or HPÊ (Yazida militia)
  • Sinjar Protection Units (YPS)
  • Peshmerga Rojava Forces (affiliate to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK))
  • Maxmur (Makhmour) Resistance Forces
  • HPG-YJA STAR (Armed wing of PKK)
  • Iraqi Ketaeb Hezbollah o Kataib Hezbollah (Shiite volunteers supported by Iran)
  • Militiamen of Ezza tribe
  • Al-Aman Cavaliers
  • Saraya al-Salam (Peace Brigades), group formed by Iraqi Shiite Muslims
  • Imam Ali Brigades or Imam Ali Battalions (sciite militia loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr)
  • Asaib Ahl al-Haq (AAH) o Khazali Network (sciite militia)
  • Harakat al-Nujaba or Nujaba Movement of Islamic Resistance (NMIR) (splinter group of Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia)
  • Shargat People’s Militia (armed Sunni group)
  • Al Bu Nimr (Sunni tribe militia)
  • Nineveh Protection Forces (Christian militia allied with Peshmerga)
  • U.S. led coalition against Islamic State (I.S.) islamist group supported (militarily and not) by following countries Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Netherlands, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates
  • Islamic State (IS) or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) or Ad Dawla al-Islamiyya/Islamic State (IS) or Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) or Daesh
  • Ba’athists
  • Wahhabiti
  • Salafi Islamists
  • Mahdi Army (Shia militia) or Shia militias or Mahdi militia or Jaish al-Mahdi (JAM) led by Moqtada al-Sadr since 2003 (military activity suspended on 2008)
  • Mujahideen Shura Council (11 sunni groups)
  • Alliance Ilfh al-Motaiyabin (Alliance of scented)
  • Ansar al-Islam or Jund Al-Islam (Soldiers of Islam) (kurdish sunni islamist group) since 2001
  • Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization left-wing Islamic group or People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) (based in Iraq, but against Islamic Republic of Iran) since 1965
  • Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami (Helpers of Global Jihad)
  • Jaish al-Tariqa al-Nakshabandi or Jaysh Rijal al-Tariq al-Naqshabandi or Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order or Naqshbandi Army (sunni islamist militant group)
  • Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance since 2004
  • al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)
  • Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (”Group of Monotheism and Jihad”) or Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (QJBR) since 2004
  • al-Qaeda Kurdish Battalions (AQKB)
  • Southern State of al-Qaeda
  • Islamic Army in Iraq (IAI)
  • Badr Brigade or Badr Organization (shiite militia) (military wing of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (a Shiite Islamist party))
  • Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar
  • Army of Pride and Dignity (in Anbar Province) since April 2013
  • Kata’ib Hizbullah (shiite militia)
  • Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq (shiite militia)
  • Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI)
  • Front for Jihad and Change (formed by 8 groups)
    • 1920 Revolution Brigades
    • Jaish al-Rashideen
    • Jaish al-Muslimeen
    • Islamic Movement of Iraq’s Mujahideen
    • Jund al-Rahman
    • Saraya al-Dawa wa’l Ribaat
    • Empowerment Brigades
    • Battalions of Muhammed al-Fatih

Israel 45

Army
  • Hamas (since 1987) armed and political group
    • Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (EQB) or Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades (EQB) or Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades (EQB) or al-Qassam Brigades (armed wing)
    • Popular Army for the Liberation of Al-Aqsa and of Palestine

  • Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) (since 1970) armed group
    • Al-Quds Brigades (Jerusalem brigades) (armed wing)

  • The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) (since 2000) armed group
    • Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades (armed wing)

  • Al-Ahrar Movement
    • Al-Ansar Brigades (armed wing)

  • Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (since 1964) armed group
    • Marxist-secular Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (since 1967) armed group
    • Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) or Popular Liberation Front of Palestine-General Command (PLFP-GC)
    • Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades (armed wing)
    • Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) (since 1969) political party
    • Abu Nidal organization (ANO) or Fatah - the Revolutionary Council (FRC) (since 1974) armed group
    • Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) (since 1977) armed group
    • Arab Liberation Front (ALF) (since 1969) political party
    • As-Sa’iqa or Vanguard for the Popular Liberation War (VPLW) (since 1966) political party
    • Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF) (since 1967) political party
    • Palestinian Arab Front (PAF) (since 1968) minor faction
      • Fatah or Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine (since 1960) political party
      • Tanzim (since 2000) militant armed faction
      • Force 17 (since 1970) (now as Palestinian Presidential Guard) armed group
      • Fatah Special Operations Group (Fatah-SOG) or Martyrs of Tel Al Za’atar, Hawari, and Amn Araissi (since 1970) armed group no more actvie
      • Ahmed Abu Reish Brigade armed group
      • Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (since 2000) armed group
      • Al-’Asifah (since 1964) armed wing
    • More armed groups:

      • Holy Jihad Brigades (since 2006) armed group
      • Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna (Iraq salafi group that has a Gaza armed faction) armed group
      • Ahfad al Sahaba or Ahfad al-Sahaba-Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis or Grandsons of the Companions (since October 2016, Salafist group linked to Islamic State group, to be verified)
      • Al-Tawheed Brigades (present in Gaza)

      Armed groups linked to al-Qaeda

      • Army of Islam (Jaysh al-Islam) or Organisation of al-Qaeda in Palestine or Palestine Army of Islam or Tawhid Al Jihad or Jihad Brigades operating in Gaza Strip (split by Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades). armed group
      • Jund Ansar Allah (Allah warriors) (since 2008) armed group
      • Fatah al-Islam (since 2006) armed group
      • Jaljalat (since 2009) operating in Gaza Strip. armed group
      • Lions of the mujahideen in Palestine (since 2010) armed group
      • Mohammed Bin Moslama Brigade (salafite group)
      • Abu al-Hareth
      • Jaysh al-Umma or Jaish al-Umma or Jaish al- Ummah or Army of the Nation or Army of the Faithful
      • Masada al Mujahideen
      • Jaish al Mu’minun or Jaish al-Muminun or Army of Believers
      • Jahafil Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad fi Filastin o Tawhid and Jihad Group in Jerusalem o Tawhid and Jihad o One God and Holy War o The Armies of Monotheism and Jihad in Palestine
      • Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC) or Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC) or Mujahedeen Shura Council (MSC) or Magles Shoura al-Mujahedeen or Magles Shoura al-Mujahadin or Mujahideen Shura Council of Jerusalem (active also in Sinai-Egypt ad in Gaza Strip) since 2011
      • Omar Brigades or Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigade or Sheikh Omar Hadid Brigades (radical jihadi-Salafi group supporting Islamic State terrorist group)
      • Saraya Ghuraba Filistin (SGF) (sub-unity of syrian group Katibat al-Ghuraba al Turkistan (KGT))

Lebanon 12

Army
  • Islamist group Fatah al-Islam since 200
  • Jund al-Sham
  • Osbat al-Ansar or Usbat Al-Ansar (Band of Supporters) since 1990
  • Brigades of Aisha or Battalions of Aisha
  • Free Sunni Brigades in Baalbek (since December 2013 to verify)
  • Hezbollah armed wing since (1982):
    • Hassan Ali Haidar unit
    • Quneitra Martyrs Brigade
  • Abdullah Azzam Brigades or Abdallah Azzam Brigades since 2009 (linked to al-Qaeda):
    • Hussein bin Ali cells
  • Nusra Front in Lebanon
  • Marwan Hadid Brigades

Saudi Arabia 3

Army
  • Najd Province (Saudi branch of ISIS)
  • Houthis rebels since 2009
  • Ahrar al-Najran Movement (tribal forces and activists in Saudi Arabia’s Najran region formed a military and political opposition movement to the Saudi regime since June 2015)

Syria 130

(Civil war is going on) (Occasional clashes between turkish and syrian armies since October 2012)
  • Army or Syrian Arab Army (SAA)
  • Syrian Resistance (Alawites, pro al-Assad)
  • al-Muqawamah al-Suriyah
  • al-Lijan al-Sha’biyah
  • Hezbollah (pro-Assad fighters from Lebanon)
  • Shabiha (pro-Assad fighters)
  • National Defense Army (militia)
  • Al-Qeada Al-Aama (militias)
  • Fatih Al-Intifada
  • Iraq Hezbollah Brigades (HK)
  • Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq (AAH)
  • Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba (HHN) or Harakat al-Nujaba (was a branc of Iraq Hezbollah Brigades (HK))
  • National Defense Forces (NDF)
  • Asayish (Kurdish security forces)
  • Iran provides logistic support, operative with ground troops and air, with airstrikes on rebel positions to Syrian army
    North Korea (yet to confirm) provides logistic and operative help to Syrian army
    Russia provides logistic support, operative with ground troops and air, with airstrikes on rebel positions to Syrian army
    Cuba provides logistic support, operative with ground troops to Syrian army (since October 2015)
    China provides humanitarian and operative training support to Syrian army (since August 2016)

  • Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Islamic State (IS) or Ad Dawla al-Islamiyya/Islamic State (IS) or Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS or ISIL) or Daesh
    • Al-Khanassaa Brigade or Khansa Battalion (group composed only be women inside Islamic State) has the function of religious police
    • Khaled ben Walid army, controls a zone near Jordan and Israel (Islamic State affiliate)
  • U.S. led coalition against Islamic State (I.S.) islamist group supported (militarily and not) by following countries Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Netherlands, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates
  • Jabhat Fath al Sham or Jabhat Fateh al-Sham or The Front for Liberation of al Sham since July 2016 not more linked to al-Qaeda (ex Al-Nusra Front or Jubhat al Nusra or Jabhat al-Nusra or Front for the Defence of the Syrian People or Jabhat an-Nusra/Victory Front (VF) since May 2012)
  • Hamza Abdualmuttalib (rebel jihadist group)
  • Khorasan (linked to al-Qaeda)
  • Dwekh Nawsha (almost 200 Christian volunteers)
  • Yarmouk Martyrs’ Brigade or Shohadaa al-Yarmouk Brigade
  • Sons of Yarmouk Movement
  • Revolutionary Movement in Syria
  • Ansar al Khilafah or Supporters of the Caliphate
  • Northern Storm Brigade
  • Liwa Al-Ansar (present in Aleppo and Idlib provinces)
  • Harakat Fajr Asham al-Islamiya (salafist group, present in Aleppo)
  • Harakat Al-Nour al-Islamiya (present in Aleppo)
  • Furqan Brigade (present in Damascus)
  • Furqan Brigade (Al Quneitra) (branch of Furqan Brigade, present in Golan)
  • 19th Division (present in Aleppo, linked with Ansar Brigade and part of Free Syrian Army)
  • Tajamu Fastaqm Kama Amart (present in Aleppo)
  • Ghuraba al-Sham or Ghurabaa al-Sham
  • Al Hijra Ila Allah or al-Hijra ila Allah
  • Regiment Bara Ben Malek (linked to al-Qaeda, to verify)
  • Jund Al-Aziz
  • Ansar Al-Haq
  • Fronte di Azione Islamico (IAF)
  • Democratic Union Party (PYD) (offshoot of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK))
  • Jabhat Al Akrad or Jabhat al-Akrad or Kurdish Front or Kurdish Front Brigade
  • Liva Siwar Al Raqqa (fighters from Raqqa town, allied to kurds fighters)
  • Al-Sunna Army
  • Al-Sham Battalion
  • Syrian Revolution Co-ordinating Union in north near Turkish border since 2011.
  • Free Syrian Army (FSA or Esl) called itself the “al-Farouq brigade of the Free Syrian Army” (FSA) since 2011 (is part of Levant Front alliance):
    • Farouq Brigades or Al Faruq Brigade (present in Homs, Idlib and Aleppo)
    • Fallujah-Houran Brigade
    • Islam Army
    • Ababil Army
    • Sham Rassoul
  • Syrian Revolutionaries Front (alliance within Free Syrian Army formed by 15 armed groups)
    • Idlib Military Council
    • Syrian Martyrs’ Brigade
    • Ahrar al-Zawia Brigades
    • Ansar Brigades
    • Coming Victory Brigades
    • Seventh Division
    • Ninth Division of Aleppo
    • Farouq al-Shamal Battalions
    • Ghab Wolves Brigade
    • Idlib Martyrs’ Brigade
    • Ahrar al-Shamal Brigade
    • Riyad al-Salehin Battalions of Damascus
    • Farouq Battalions of Hama
    • Special Assignments Regiment of Damascus
    • Ahfad Saladin Brigade
  • Syrian Islamic Liberation Front (SILF)
    • Amjad Al Islam Brigade or Islam Brigade (Greater Glory of Islam Brigade)
  • Army of Islam (Jaish al-Islam) composed by almost 50 jihadist armed groups
    • Liwa al-Islam Brigade or Liwaa al-Islam Brigade
  • Islamic Front (new rebel group with almost 45.000 fighters, since November 2013)
    • Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham or Ahrar al-Sham or Ahrar al Sham or Ahrar Asham or Ahrar Asham or Ahrar ash-Sham or Akhrar ah-Sham (not jihadist, radical Salafist group)
    • Jaysh al-Islam (Army of Islam) or Jeish al Islam (Army of Islam)
    • Sukour Al-Sham or Suqour al-Sham or Soqor Al-Sham
    • Al-Tawhid Brigade or Al-Tawheed Brigade or Liwa al-Tawhid Brigate or Tawhid Brigade (not jihadist, present in Aleppo province)
    • Liwa Al-Haq or Liwa al-Haqq
    • Ansar al-Sham
    • Kurdish Islamic Front
    • Jund al-Aqsa
  • Syrian Islamic Front
    • Harakat Ahrar al-Sham al-Islamiyya
  • Southern Front (Composed by 50 rebel groups, includes 30.000 fighters, born on February 2014)
    • Shamiyya Front or Shamiya Front or Shamiah Front (a coalition of conservative militias) since December 2014 (active in Aleppo)
      • Noureddin al-Zinki Brigades or Nour Al-Din Al-Zinki Battalion
      • Mujahideen Army or Mujahedeen Army
    • The Southern Eagles “Soqor Al-Janoob” since April 2015 (active in Daraa)
      • Al-Sunna Lions (Asood Al-Sunna)
      • Al-Yarmook Army
      • Falojat Horan Group
      • 18 March Group
    • Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) or Democratic Syrian Army (SDF) or Jasad or Democratic Forces of Syria (SDF) (50,000 fighters) since October 2015
      • Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) or People’s Protection Unit (YPG) or People Protection Unites (YPG) or People’s Protection Force (YPG) or Kurdish People’s Protection Units or Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) (armed wing of Kurdish Supreme Committee in Syria)
      • Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) or Women’s Protection Units (YPJ)
      • Afrin Liberation Forces (HRE)
      • Syriac Christians (an Assyrian Christian group)
      • Jaysh al-Thuwwar (Army of Rebels)
      • Arab Burkan al-Furat
      • Female Protection Forces of the Land Between the Two Rivers (battalion composed by Christian women) since August 2015
      • Fursan al-Jazira Brigades or Fursan al-Jazîra Brigades
      • Dehid Tasleem Jimmo Brigade or Şehid Tasleem Jimmo Brigade
    • Hazm Movement (allied with Free Syrian Army rebel group)
    • Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis (Palestinian faction)
    • Islamic Battalions
    • al-Khabour Guards Forces
    • Syriac Military Council
    • Raqqa Revolutionaries Front or Raqqa Revolutionaries Brigade
    • Sultan Murad Brigades (composed by turkmen minority)
    • Levant Front (alliance which is part of Free Syrian Army)
    • Faylaq al Sham or Faylaq al-Sham
    • Faylaq Majid
    • Failaq al-Rahman
    • Suwar Agi Sham
    • Kait’ib Hezbollah (Iranian-backed Shiite volunteers )
    • Kait’ib Sayyid al Shuhada (Iranian-backed Shiite militia)
    • Jaysh al-Mujahideen
    • Jaysh Idlib
    • Jabhat al-Shamiyah
    • Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) or Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) or Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) (alliance linked to al-Qaeda)
    • Katibat al-Ghuraba al Turkistan (KGT)
    • Hurras al-Deen
    • Manbij Military Council
      • Euphrates Liberation Brigade or Tehrir-El-Firat
    • Military Assembly of Minbic Region or Military Assembly of Manbij Region or Minbic Region Military Assembly (composed by 7 groups) since April 2016
      • Şems El-Semal
      • Suwar El-Minbic or Minbic Revolutionaries
      • Coalition of Euphrates Regiments or Euphrates Regiments Coalition
      • Regiments of Cind El-Heramên or Cind El-Heramên Regiments
      • Regiments of the Euphrates Martyrs or Euphrates Martyrs Regiments,
      • El-Qewsî Regiment
      • Tirkman El-Minbic or Regiment of Minbic Turkmen or Minbic Turkmens Regiment

    Yemen 18

    (Coalition led by Saudi Arabia with help of United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan, Egypt, Pakistan, Senegal and Malaysia since March 2015 is fighing against Houthi rebels allied and supported by Iran)
    • Army
    • Al-Islah (sunni faction allied with government)
    • Al-Hashid sunni tribe or Hashed tribal federation (led by al-Ahmar family)
    • Salafi or takfiris (Sunni extremists Islamist group)
    • Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) or Popular Resistance Forces (militia fights along with army)
    • al-Houthi or Houthis or Huthi or Huthis or Ansarullah or Hawthi Ansarullah or Zaidi rebels (Shiite Muslim rebels) since 2004
    • Shia rebels in the northern governorate of Saada
    • al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
    • Ansar al-Sharia or Partisans of Islamic Law or Partisans of Sharia or Supporters of al-Sharia (linked with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP))
    • Al-Janoob al-Har - the Free South (Southern separatist movement)
    • Southern Secessionist Movement or South Yemen Movement or Southern Separatist Movement or Harak (since 2007)
    • Aden-Abyan Army since October 2010
    • Joint Meeting Parties (JMPs)
    • Islamic Jihad Group
    • Clashes between troops (General People’s Congress (GPC)) loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh against troops supporting Gen Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar who has defected to the opposition and tribesmen from the Hashid tribal confederation
    • Allied tribes of Hadramout (since January 2014)
    • Supporters of the Islamic State in the Arabian Peninsula (since October 2014) linked to Islamic State and maybe linked to AQAP
    • Sana Province (Islamic State affiliate group)
    • Southern Transitional Council (STC) southern separatist militia (signed peace agreement with yemeni government in November 2019)

    AMERICAS:

    (7 Countries and 39 between drug cartels, terrorist-separatist-anarchic groups involved)

    Hot Spots:
    -Colombia (war against rebel groups)
    -Mexico (war against narcotraffic groups)

    Brazil 1

    Army
    • Ansar al-Khilafah Brazil (ISIS affiliate, to verify) since July 2016

    Chile 2

    Army
    • Frente Internacional Rivoluzionario/Comando Insurrecional Aracely Romo
    • Comando 8 de dicembre Coordinamento Internacional FAI

    Colombia 11

    Army
    • Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) since 1964 (Peace-talks with government will be in Oslo on October 2012. Announced cease-fire since November 20 2012 to January 20 2013 and since June 9 2014 to June 30 2014. Final ceasefire signed with government on June 2016. Declared end of war in August 2016)
    • Carlos Patino Front (CPF) (founded by former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels))
    • National Liberation Army (ELN) since 1964
    • Los Urabeños or Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC) paramilitary group since 2001
    • Movimiento Revolucionario del Pueblo (MRP) or The People’s Revolutionary Movement (MRP) anti-government militia since 2015
    • Popular Liberation Army (EPL) or Los Pelusos (crime gang)
    • United Force of the Pacific (UFP) created by dissidents with FARC in June 2018
    • Segunda Marquetalia (ex-rebels of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) operating in Colombia but harbored by Venezuela)
    • Estado Mayor Central or Central General Staff (EMC)
    • Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia of Gulf Clan (AGC)
    • Self-Defense Forces of the Sierra Nevada

    Ecuador 1

    Army
    • Armed Revolutionary Insurgent Forces of Ecuador

    Mexico 20

    • Army
    • United Front of Community Police of Guerrero State (FUPCEG) citizens militia in Guerrero State
    • Regional Coordination of Community Authorities - Founding Peoples (CRAC-PF) or Coordinadora Regional de Autoridades Comunitarias-Pueblos Fundadores (CRAC-PF) citizens militia in Guerrero State
    • Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ezln), peaceful revolutionary, active in Chiapas State since 1994
    • Sinaloa Cartel (Mexican drug Cartel)
    • Juarez Cartel (Mexican drug Cartel) with its armed wing La Linea
    • Los Zetas Cartel (Mexican drug Cartel)
    • Gulf Cartel (Mexican drug Cartel)
    • Tijuana Cartel (Mexican drug Cartel)
    • La Familia Cartel (Mexican drug Cartel)
    • Beltrán-Leyva Cartel (Mexican drug Cartel)
    • Cartel del Sur or South Pacific Cartel (Mexican drug Cartel)
    • Celulas Autonomas de Revolucion Inmediata Praxedis G. Guerriero.
    • Federacion Anarquista Informal/Acrata
    • Frente de Liberacion de la Tierra (FLT)/ Red Internacional de accion y solidaridad Grupo Informal Anti-civilizacion
    • Frente de Liberacion de la Tierra (FLT)/ Federacion Anarquista Informal- Red Global
    • Nucleo Insurrecto Sole-Baleno de las Celulas Autonomas de revolucion inmediata Praxedis
    • Guerriero/FAI

    • Comando de Individuos Libres, Peligrosos, Salvajes e Incendiarios por la Peste Negra /FAI/Red Global
    • Ludditas contra la domesticacion de la naturalezza Salvaje/FAI/Red Global
    • Celula Eco Anarquista por el ataque directo/FAI/Red Global
    • Brigada de accion Revolucionaria por la propaganda por el hecho y la accion armada-Simon Radowisky/FAI/ Red Global

    Peru 2

    Army
    • Shining Path (Partido Comunista del Perú - Sendero Luminoso, PCP-SL) since 1969
    • Circulo de accion Iconoclasta/FAI

    Venezuela 2

    Army
    • Soldiers Franelas or El Movimiento Nacional Soldados de Franelas
    • Martin Villa Front (ex FARC Colombian rebels)

    TOTAL:


    Number of Countries involved in wars 70
    Number Militias-guerrillas and terrorist-separatist-anarchic groups involved 901




    Regions, Autonomous Provinces, Dependencies, Overseas Territories that are struggling for Independence:


    Africa 10
    Autonomous region, Province, Dependence, Overseas Territory struggling for independenceCountry
    Ambazonia(Cameroon)
    Cabinda(Angola)
    Ogaden
    Oromo
    (Ethiopia)
    Cirenaica(Libya)
    Western Sahara(Maroc)
    Biafra(Nigeria)
    Somaliland(Somalia)
    Darfur(Sudan)
    Western Togoland(Ghana)



    Asia 20
    Autonomous region, Province, Dependence, Overseas Territory struggling for IndependenceCountry
    Kachin
    Karen
    Shan State North
    Shan State South
    Chin State
    New Mon State
    Palaung State
    United Wa State
    (Burma-Myanmar)
    Kashmir
    Karen
    Orissa
    Nagaland
    Assam
    Bodoland
    Tripura
    Gorkhaland
    (India)
    Aceh
    (Indonesia)
    Balochistan(Pakistan)
    Tamil(Sri Lanka)
    Patani Malay Nation(Thailandia)



    Europe 13
    Autonomous region, Province, Dependence, Overseas Territory struggling for IndependenceCountry
    Artsakh (ex Nagorno-Karabakh) will cease to exist from 1 January 2024(Azerbaijan)
    Corsica
    New Caledonia
    (France)
    Trasnistria(Moldova)
    Abkhazia
    South Ossetia
    (Georgia)
    Republic of Ilirida or Illyria Republic(Macedonia-Fyrom)
    Northern Ireland
    Scotland
    (United Kingdom)
    Chechnya(Russia)
    Basque Country
    Catalonia
    (Spain)
    European Federated States of Novorossia (formed by the union of Self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic)(Ukraine)



    Middle East 2
    Autonomous region, Province, Dependence, Overseas Territory struggling for IndependenceCountry
    Kurdistan(Iran, Iraq, Turkey)
    Palestine(Israel)



    Oceania 2
    Autonomous region, Province, Dependence, Overseas Territory struggling for IndependenceCountry
    Bougainville(Papua New Guinea)
    Papua(Indonesia)

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