List of guerrilla movements

This is a list of notable guerrilla movements. It gives their English name, common acronym, and main country of operation.

Latin America

* Arnoldo Camu Command - Chile
* Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) El Salvador
* Chiconero - Central America
* Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG)
* Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) - Mexico
* Sandinista National Liberation Front - Nicaragua
* Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) or Zapatistas - Chiapas, Mexico
* Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) - Colombia
* National Liberation Army ELN - Colombia
* People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) - Argentina
* Montoneros - Argentina
* Tacuara Nationalist Movement (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucinario Tacuara - MNRT) - Argentina
* Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement MRTA - Peru
* Suriname National Liberation Army - Suriname
* Contras - Nicaragua
* 19th of April Movement (M-19) - Colombia
* 26th of July Movement - Cuba
* Morazanist Patriotic Front - Honduras
* Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation (FALZW)- Bolivia
* National Liberation Army (ELN) - Bolivia
* Nestor Paz Zamora Commission (CNPZ) - Bolivia
* Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (EGTK) - Bolivia
* Simon Bolivar Guerrilla Commando - Bolivia
* Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front - (FPMR) Chile
* Revolutionary Guevarist Army - Colombia
* Bolivarian Forces of Liberation - Venezuela
* Tupamaros Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Tupamaros - Uruguay

North America

* Quantrill's Raiders led by William Quantrill - United States
* Black Liberation Army - United States
* Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance - Guadeloupe
* Nation of Islam's paramilitary security force (Fruit of Islam) - United States
* New World Liberation Front (NWLF) - United States
* MEChA's Brown Berets (paramilitary security force) - United States - "Border War"
* Port7Alliance - United States
* Ku Klux Klan - United States
* Weather Underground - United States
* The Order - United StatesHistoric
* Black Panther Party - United States
* Quebec Liberation Front - Canada
* Direct Action - Canada

Europe

* National Liberation Army - Republic of Macedonia
* Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euzkadi Tas Askantasuna (ETA) - Spain
* National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters - (EOKA) Cyprus
* Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) - Semi-recognised country of Kosovo
* Kosovo Republic Armed Forces (FARK) - Semi-recognised country of Kosovo
* UCPMB - Serbia
* Catalan Red Liberation Army - Spain
* Commando Elizabeth Van Dyck - France
* First of October Antifascist Resistance
* Provisional IRA (PIRA) - Northern Ireland
* Brigate Rosse (BR, after split BR-PCC) - Italy
* Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) Northern Ireland
* Ulster Defence Association (UDA) - Northern Ireland
* Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) - Northern Ireland
* Continuity IRA (CIRA) - Northern Ireland
* Real IRA (RIRA) - Northern Ireland
* Chechen guerrillas under nominal leadership of Aslan Maskhadov (who is now deceased) - Chechnya

"Historic"
* Forest Brothers - Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania (World War II-1952 approx.)
* World War II Resistance movements in various countries sponsored by the United Kingdom and other Western governments;
* 'Old' IRA - Ireland (prior to the establishment of an independent state of Ireland)
* Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland "(Chetniks)" - Yugoslavia
* National Liberation Army "(Partizans)" - Yugoslavia
* Brigate Rosse (BR, later split, BR-PCC and BR-UCC largest factions) - Italy
* Action Directe (AD) - France
* Snapphane Movement - Sweden, pro-Danish partisans that fought against the Swedes in the 17th century.
* Soviet government-organized Soviet partisans in the Axis-occupied territories during World War II
* Polish underground army, Armia Krajowa, Bataliony Chłopskie and National Armed Forces during World War II, small units after the war later described as Cursed soldiers
*Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) - Greece
*Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) - Ukraine
*Red Army Faction (RAF) - Western Germany, known also as Baader-Meinhof Gang
*Democratic Army of Greece, Communist partisans during the Greek Civil War - Greece

Africa

* Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) - South Africa (armed wing of ANC)
* Mau Mau - Kenya
* National Front for the Liberation of Angola or FNLA - Angola
* Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola MPLA - Angola
* National Union for the Total Independence of Angola UNITA- Angola
* Eritrean Liberation Front or ELF - Eritrea
* Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy or LURD - Liberia
* Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro or Polisario - Western Sahara
* Zimbabwe African People's Union - Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
* Mozambican Liberation Front or FRELIMO
* Mozambican National Resistance or RENAMO - Mozambique
* South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) - Namibia
* Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) - Uganda
* Uganda People's Democratic Army - Uganda
*National Resistance Army - Uganda
* poqo - South Africa armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress
* Afrikaner Resistance Movement - South Africa
* Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia
* Oromo Liberation Front
* Sudan People's Liberation Army
* Sudan Liberation Movement
* Justice and Equality Movement
* Janjaweed
*Niger Movement for Justice

Asia

* Northern Alliance - Afghanistan
* Taliban -- Afghanistan
* Al Qaeda -- has been based in Afghanistan (global Islamic militant network)
* Khmer Rouge - Cambodia
* Kurdistan Workers Party -- Turkey
* Mujahedin - (generic grouping) Afghanistan, Middle East
* Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) East-Timor
* Pathet Lao - Laos

* Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) - Philippines
* Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF, a break away group of the MNLF) - Philippines
* Hukbalahaps - Philippines
* New People's Army (NPA) - Philippines
* Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) - Sri Lanka
* Lashkar-e-Toiba -- based in Pakistan
* United Liberation Front of Asom -- IndiaBangladesh
* Balochistan Liberation Army- Pakistan
* JKLF- Kashmir
* Hizbul Mujahideen- Kashmir
* Jaish-e-Mohammed- Kashmir

"Historic"

* Chushi Gangdruk - Tibet, China
* Communist Party of China - China
* Katipunan-Philippines
* Righteous army-Korea
* National Liberation Front (NLF) - Vietnam
* Wingate's Raiders - Burma
* Hermes - Borneo Island/Malaysia--The Dayak's indigenous guerrilla group which fights against discrimination by the Malaysian Government to their race. They also fight for Free Religions in Malaysia.

Middle East

* Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
* Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (PDK-I)
* Komalah - Iran
* Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK)
* Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) - Lebanon, Armenia and the USA
* Irgun
* Haganah
* Lehi (group)
* Black September
* Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
* Ansar al-Islam
* Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
* Popular Resistance Committees
* Hamas
* Islamic Jihad
* Hezbollah
* Iraqi insurgency
* Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman
* Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas- Iran

See also:
* List of guerrilla fighters
* List of terrorist groups
* Terrorism

External links

* [http://freelebanon.org/articles/a167.htm Complete List of Terrorist and Insurgency Groups Worldwide] (about 371 in all)