List of active rebel groups#Groups that control territory

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This is a list of active rebel groups around the world. A "rebel group" is defined here as a polity that uses armed conflict in opposition to established government (or governments) for reasons such as to seek political change or to establish, maintain, or to gain independence.

Rebel groups by state

Rebel groups are listed by the states within which they operate.

class="wikitable sortable"
Within state

!Rebel group

!Subgroups / Affiliates

!Conflict

!Year Established

!Leader

!References

Multinational:
{{DRC}}
{{UGA}}

|24px Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)

|None

|

|1996

|Musa Baluku

|{{cite news|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/they-killed-people-until-they-got-tired/|title=They killed people until they got tired.|website=Vice News|date=2018-09-07|access-date=2018-11-28}}

Multinational:
{{DZA}}
{{BGD}}
{{BFA}}
{{TCD}}
{{EGY}}
{{IDN}}
{{IRQ}}
{{ISR}}
{{CIV}}
{{KEN}}
{{LBY}}
{{MLI}}
{{NER}}
{{NGA}}
{{PAK}}
{{SOM}}
{{TUN}}
{{YEM}}

|{{flagicon image|Flag of al-Qaeda.svg}} Al-Qaeda

|

|

|1988

|Saif al-Adel

|{{cite book|last1=Wright|first1=Lawrence|author-link=Lawrence Wright|title=The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11|date=2006|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|location=New York|isbn=978-0-375-41486-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8dCnb4uR63EC |pages=107–108, 185, 270–271}}{{cite news|first=Rob|last=Watson|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6545549.stm|title=Algeria blasts fuel violence fears|work=BBC News|date=11 April 2007|access-date=12 November 2016}}{{cite journal|last=Filiu|first=Jean-Pierre|author-link=Jean-Pierre Filiu|title=Local and global jihad: Al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghrib|journal=Middle East Journal|publisher=Middle East Institute|volume=63|issue=2|date=Spring 2009|pages=213–226|doi=10.3751/63.2.12|s2cid=144728059}}

Multinational:
{{AFG}}
{{AZE}}
{{DZA}}
{{BGD}}
{{BFA}}
{{CMR}}
{{TCD}}
{{COD}}
{{EGY}}
{{IND}}
{{IRQ}}
{{IRN}}
{{CIV}}
{{LBY}}
{{MOZ}}
{{MLI}}
{{NER}}
{{NGA}}
{{PAK}}
{{PHL}}
{{RUS}}
{{SAU}}
{{SOM}}
{{SYR}}
{{THA}}
{{TUN}}
{{TUR}}
{{YEM}}

|{{flag icon|Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant}} Islamic State

|

|

|1999

|Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi

|{{cite web|last=Kingsley|first=Patrick|title=Egypt faces new threat in al-Qaeda linked group Ansar Beyt al-Maqdis|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/31/egypt-alqaida-terrorist-threat-ansar-beyt-almaqdis|work=The Guardian|date=31 January 2014|access-date=31 May 2014}}{{cite news|title=Islamic State 'has 50,000 fighters in Syria'|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/islamic-state-50000-fighters-syria-2014819184258421392.html|work=al-Jazeera|date=20 August 2014|access-date=12 November 2016}}{{cite news|url=http://www.rferl.org/content/Pakistan_IMU_Militants_Afghan_Border_Unrest/1181286.html|title=Pakistan Blames IMU Militants For Afghan Border Unrest|date=2 July 2003|publisher=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|first=Alisher|last=Sidikov|access-date=3 July 2008}}{{cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAYHAovJy84 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/kAYHAovJy84 |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live|title=The Children Brainwashed To Become Jihadis|date=15 Oct 2015}}{{cbignore}}

Multinational:
{{AFG}}
{{IRN}}
{{PAK}}
{{SYR}}
{{TJK}}

|{{flagicon image|Flag of al-Qaeda.svg}} Jama'at al-Jihad al-Islami

|None

|

|2002

|

|

Multinational:
{{CAF}}
{{COD}}
{{SSD}}
{{UGA}}

|File:Flag red yellow 5x3.svg Lord's Resistance Army

|None

|

|1987

|Joseph Kony

|{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/uganda-to-head-new-military-force-to-hunt-for-kony/article1-827332.aspx|title=Uganda to head new military force to hunt for Kony|publisher=hindustantimes.com|agency=Reuters|date=18 March 2012|access-date=26 August 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226024128/http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/uganda-to-head-new-military-force-to-hunt-for-kony/article1-827332.aspx|archive-date=26 December 2013}}

rowspan="2" |{{AFG}}

|{{flagicon image|Flag_of_Afghanistan_%282013%E2%80%932021%29.svg}} Afghanistan Freedom Front

|None

| rowspan="2" |Afghanistan conflict

|2022

|

|

File:Flag of Afghanistan (1992–2001).svg National Resistance Front of Afghanistan

|None

|2021

|Ahmad Massoud

|{{Cite web |title=Saleh and Massoud: The Afghan leaders challenging the Taliban |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/23/the-two-men-challenging-the-taliban-in-afghanistan |access-date=2025-02-24 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}

{{AGO}}

|{{flagicon image|Flag of Cabinda.svg|size=22px}} Republic of Cabinda

|FLEC

|Cabinda War

|1975

|António Bento Bembe

|

{{BFA}}

|{{flagicon image|Flag of al-Qaeda.svg}} Ansar ul Islam

|None

|Insurgency in the Maghreb

|2016

|Abdoul Salam Dicko

|

{{CMR}}

|{{flag|Ambazonia}}

|List of Ambazonian militant groups

|Anglophone Crisis

|2017

|Samuel Ikome Sako

|

{{CAF}}

|{{flagicon|Central African Republic}} Coalition of Patriots for Change

|

|Central African Republic Civil War

|2020

|François Bozizé (alleged)

|

rowspan="2"|{{CHL}}

|File:Logo de la CAM.svg Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco

|Lafkenche Mapuche Resistance{{Cite web|url=https://itsgoingdown.org/lafkenche-mapuche-resistance-claims-recent-sabotage-actions-in-wallmapu/|title = "Lafkenche Mapuche Resistance" Claims Recent Sabotage Actions in Wallmapu|date = 25 December 2021}}

|rowspan="2"|Mapuche conflict

|1998

|Héctor Llaitul

|

File:Flag of the Mapuches (1992).svg Weichán Auka Mapu

| None

|2011

|Collective leadership

|

{{CHN}}

|{{flagicon image|Flag of Turkistan Islamic Party.svg}} East Turkestan Islamic Movement

|None

|Xinjiang conflict

|1988

|Abdullah Mansour

|

rowspan="4"|{{COL}}

|File:Flag of The AGC.png Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia

|None

|

|2001

|Dario Antonio Úsuga

|

{{Flagicon image|Flag of ELN.svg}} National Liberation Army (ELN)

|None

|

|1964

|Antonio Garcia

|{{cite web|title=Council Decision of 21 December 2005: implementing Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism and repealing Decision 2005/848/EC|url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2005/l_340/l_34020051223en00640066.pdf|work=Official Journal of the European Union|date=23 December 2005|access-date=6 July 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924025231/http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2005/l_340/l_34020051223en00640066.pdf|archive-date=24 September 2009}}

{{flagicon image|Flag of EPL.svg}} Popular Liberation Army (EPL)

|None

|

|1967

|

|

{{Flagicon image|Flag of the FARC-EP.svg}} FARC dissidents

|None

|

|2016

|Gentil "Cabuyo" Duarte

|{{Cite web |title=La Segunda Marquetalia |url=https://multimedia.ideaspaz.org/media/website/FIP_Infome_SegundaMarquetalia_Final_V7.pdf}}

rowspan="21"|{{COD}}

|Bundu dia Kongo (BDK)

|None

|rowspan="21"|

|1986

|Ne Muanda Nsemi

|

CODECO

|None

|1970s

|

|

{{flagicon image|Flag of Katanga.svg}} Coordination for a Referendum on Self-determination for Katanga (CORAK)

|None

|

|

|

{{flagicon image|Flagge FDLR.svg}} Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR)

|None

|2000

|

|

Kamwina Nsapu militia

|None

|

|

|

Mai-Mai

|None

|1960s

|

|

{{flagicon image|Flag of Katanga.svg}} Mai Mai Kata Katanga

|None

|2011

|

|

{{flagicon image|Flag of Katanga.svg}} Mai Mai Gédéon

|None

|

|

|

Mai Mai Sheka

|None

|

|

|

Mai-Mai Simba

|None

|

|

|

Mai Mai Yakutumba

|None

|

|

|

{{flagicon image|CNPSC logo.png}} National Coalition of the People for the Sovereignty of Congo

|None

|2017

|William Yakutumba

|

Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI)

|None

|2005

|Peter Karim Udaga

|

Nyatura

|None

|

|

|

Patriotic Resistance Front of Ituri (FRPI)

|None

|2002

|Cobra Matata

|

Popular Front for Justice in the Congo (FPJC)

|None

|2008

|David Mbadu

|

{{flagicon image|Flag of Katanga.svg}} Progressive Katanga Congress (CPK)

|None

|

|

|

Raia Mutomboki

|None

|2005

|Isaac Chirambiza

|

RUD-Urunana

|None

|

|

|

Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC)

|None

|2001

|Bosco Ntaganda

|

March 23 Movement (M23)

|None

|2012

|Bertrand Bisimwa

|

rowspan="2"|{{EGY}}

|Al Furqan Brigades

|None

|rowspan="2"|

|2013

|

|

Hasm Movement

|None

|2015

|

|

rowspan="3"|{{ETH}}

|24px Fano

|

  • Wollo Fano
  • Gojjam Fano
  • Gondar Fano
  • Shewa Fano
  • Amhara People's Army

|War in Amhara

|2018

|

|

24px Oromo Liberation Army

|

|Oromo conflict

|2020

|Kumsa Diriba

|

{{flagicon image|Infobox TPLF.png|size=25px}} Tigray People's Liberation Front

|Tigray Defense Forces

|Tigray War

|1975

|Debretsion Gebremichael

|

{{FRA}}

|Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV)

|None

|

|1975

|

|

rowspan="2"|{{GRC}}

|Black Star

|None

|

|

|

|

Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei

|None

|

|2008

|

|

rowspan="11"|{{IND}}

|Hizbul Mujahideen

|Dukhtaran-e-Milat{{Cite web |date=1999-03-12 |title=The revival of communalism |url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/article30159153.ece |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=frontline.thehindu.com |language=en}}

|rowspan="4"|Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir

|1989

|Sayeed Salahudeen

|{{cite press release|url=http://ue.eu.int/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/en/misc/87236.pdf|title=Combating terrorism – Restrictive measures against certain persons and entities|work=Council of the European Union|date=30 November 2005|access-date=25 May 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327070818/http://ue.eu.int/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/en/misc/87236.pdf|archive-date=27 March 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://ia.rediff.com/news/2005/dec/01eu.htm|title=EU adds Hizbul Mujahideen to terror list|publisher=Rediff India Abroad|date=1 December 2005|access-date=27 March 2016}}

{{flagicon image|Jaishi-e-Mohammed.svg}} Jaish-e-Mohammed

|• Lashkar-e-Mustafa{{Cite web |date=2021-10-22 |title=Kashmir Tigers: Another militant outfit emerges, fourth in two years |url=https://thekashmirwalla.com/kashmir-tigers-another-militant-outfit-emerges-fourth-in-two-years/ |access-date=2024-04-29 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022120838/https://thekashmirwalla.com/kashmir-tigers-another-militant-outfit-emerges-fourth-in-two-years/ |archive-date=22 October 2021 }}

• Kashmir Tigers{{Cite web |date=2021-12-14 |title=Explained: What is 'Kashmir Tigers', blamed for J&K police attack |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/kashmir-tigers-srinagar-police-attack-7672175/ |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}

|2000

|Masood Azhar

|{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1804228.stm|work=BBC News|title=Jaish-e-Mohammad: A profile|date=6 February 2002|access-date=8 May 2010}}

{{flagicon image|Flag of Lashkar-e-Taiba.svg}} Lashkar-e-Taiba

|{{flagicon image|TRF_logo_x16.png}} The Resistance Front

|1986

|Hafiz Muhammad Saeed

|{{cite report |first1=Audrey|last1=Kurth Cronin|author2=Huda Aden|author3=Adam Frost|author4=Benjamin Jones|url=http://fas.org/irp/crs/RL32223.pdf|title=CRS Report for Congress: Foreign Terrorist Organizations|publisher=Congressional Research Service|date=6 February 2004|access-date=28 March 2016}}

United Jihad Council

|

|1994

|

|

{{flagicon image|Unofficial_flag_of_Nagaland.svg}} National Socialist Council of Nagaland

|None

|rowspan="2"|Insurgency in Northeast India

|1980

|Thuingaleng Muivah

|

22px United Liberation Front of Asom

|None

|1979

|

|{{cite web|url=http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/states/assam/terrorist_outfits/Ulfa.htm|title=United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)|publisher=South Asia Terrorism Portal|access-date=23 October 2014}}

{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} Communist Party of India (Maoist)

|None

|rowspan="2"|Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

|2004

|Nambala Keshava Rao

|{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7996340.stm|title=Troops die in India Maoist attack|work=bbc.co.uk|date=13 April 2009|access-date=12 November 2016}}

{{flagicon image|South Asian Communist Banner.svg}} Maoist Communist Party of Manipur

|None

|2011

|

|

International Sikh Youth Federation

|None

|

|1987

|Lakhbir Singh Rode

|{{cite web|url=http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/states/punjab/terrorist_outfits/ISYF.htm|title=International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF)|publisher=South Asia Terrorism Portal|access-date=12 November 2016}}

Khalistan Zindabad Force

|None

|

|1988

|Ranjit Singh Neeta

|{{cite web|title=Council Decision of 21 December 2005: implementing Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2580/2001 on specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combating terrorism and repealing Decision 2005/848/EC|url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2005/l_340/l_34020051223en00640066.pdf|work=Official Journal of the European Union|date=23 December 2005|access-date=6 July 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924025231/http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2005/l_340/l_34020051223en00640066.pdf|archive-date=24 September 2009}}

Students' Islamic Movement of India

|None

|

|1977

|

|{{cite web|url=http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/terroristoutfits/simi.htm|title=Students Islamist Movement of India (SIMI)|publisher=South Asia Terrorism Portal|access-date=23 October 2014}}

rowspan="3"|{{IDN}}

|22px Free Papua Movement

|None

|Papua conflict

|1963

|Mathias Wenda

|

Jamaah Ansharusy Syariah (JAS)

|None

|

|

|

|

{{flagicon image|Flag_of_South_Moluccas.svg}} South Moluccas

|None

|

|1950

|

|

rowspan="8"|{{IRN}}

|{{flagicon image|Flag of Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistana Îranê.png}} Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan

|None

|rowspan="3"|Western Iran clashes

|1945

|Mustafa Hijri

|

{{flagicon image|Flag of Komala.png}} Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan

|None

|2000

|Abdullah Mohtadi

|

{{flagicon image|Flag of the Kurdistan Freedom Party.png}} Kurdistan Freedom Party

|None

|1991

|Hussein Yazdanpanah

|

{{flagicon image|Flag_of_Partiya_Jiyana_Azad_a_Kurdistanê.svg}} Kurdistan Free Life Party

|None

|

|2004

|Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi

|

{{flagicon image|Flag_of_Jaish_al-Adl.svg}} Jaish ul-Adl

|None

|Insurgency in Balochistan

|2012

|Salahuddin Farooqui

|

{{flagicon image|Flag of Arabistan.svg}} Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz

|None

|Khuzestan conflict

|2005

|Habib Jabor / Saddam Hattem

|

Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)

|None

|

|2001

|

|

{{flagicon image|Flag of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (Yellow).svg}} People's Mujahedin of Iran

|None

|

|1965

|Maryam Rajavi

|

{{IRQ}}

|Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order

|None

|Insurgency in Iraq

|2006

|rowspan="1"|Salah Al-Mukhtar

rowspan="2"|{{IRL}}

|Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)

|None

|rowspan="2"|Dissident Irish republican campaign

|1994

|Continuity Army Council

|

New Irish Republican Army

|None

|2012

|Army Council

|

{{ITA}}

|Informal Anarchist Federation

|None

|

|2003

|

|

rowspan="4"|{{LBY}}

|{{flagicon image|Flag of Libya (1977-2011).svg}} Green Resistance

|None

|rowspan="4"|Libyan Crisis (2011–present)

|2014

|

|

Rafallah al-Sahati Brigade

|None

|

|

|

{{flagicon image|Flag of the Toubou Front for the Salvation of Libya.svg}} Toubou Front for the Salvation of Libya

|None

|2007

|Issa Abdel Majid Mansur

|

{{flagicon|Libya}} Zintan Brigades

|None

|2011

|Kalifah Shahub

|

rowspan="2"|{{MLI}}

|{{flagicon image|Flag of Jihad.svg}} Ansar al-Sharia

|None

|rowspan="2"|Mali War

|2012

|

|

{{flagicon|Azawad}} National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad

|None

|2011

|Bilal Ag Acherif

|{{cite web|title=mages and exclusive testimony of northern Mali: a colonel MNLA reveals its military arsenal|url=http://observers.france24.com/content/20120622-exclusive-photos-northern-mali-tuareg-rebel-leader-shows-military-arsenal-mnla-ansar-dine-gao-weapons|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120624015723/http://observers.france24.com/content/20120622-exclusive-photos-northern-mali-tuareg-rebel-leader-shows-military-arsenal-mnla-ansar-dine-gao-weapons|archive-date=2012-06-24|work=France 24|access-date=29 April 2014}}

rowspan="2"|{{MEX}}

|{{flagicon image|Mx-epr.gif}} Popular Revolutionary Army

|None

|

|1996

|Edmundo Reyes

|{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-guerrilla20sep20,0,6866670.story?coll=la-home-center|work=Los Angeles Times|title=A small guerrilla band is waging war in Mexico|first=Hector|last=Tobar|date=20 September 2007|access-date=8 May 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725135753/http://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/20/world/fg-guerrilla20|archive-date=25 July 2009}}

{{flagicon image|Flag of the EZLN.svg}} Zapatista Army of National Liberation

|None

|Chiapas conflict

|1983

|

|{{Citation|last1=O'Neil|first1=Patrick H.|author2=Karl Fields|author3=Don Share|title=Cases in Comparative Politics|place=New York|publisher=Norton|year=2006|edition=2nd|isbn=0-393-92943-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/casesincomparati0000onei/page/376 376–378]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/casesincomparati0000onei/page/376}}

{{MOZ}}

|{{flagicon image|Flag of Jihad.svg}} Al-Shabaab

|None

|Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

|2015

|

|

rowspan="5"|{{MMR}}

|{{flagicon image|Fighting Peacock Flag.png}} All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF)

|None

|rowspan="5"|Internal conflict in Myanmar

|1988

|Than Khae

|

{{flagicon image|DKBA-5 Buddhist Flag Variant.svg}} DKBA-5

|None

|2010

|Saw Mo Shay

|{{cite news|first=Saw Yan|last=Naing|url=http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20811|title=Ethnic Armed Groups to Negotiate Jointly|work=irrawaddy.org|date=23 February 2011|access-date=8 November 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302035335/http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20811|archive-date=2 March 2011}}

{{flagicon image|Shan State Army (South) Flag.svg}} Shan State Army - South (SSA-S)

|None

|1996

|Yawd Serk

|{{cite news|first=Ko|last=Htwe|url=http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20819|title=Three Burmese Soldiers Killed in Southern Shan State|publisher=irrawaddy.org|date=24 February 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302035325/http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20819|archive-date=2 March 2011}}

United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC)

|

|2011

|Nai Hong Sar

|{{cite web|url=http://www.mmpeacemonitor.org/stakeholders/unfc|title=UNFC|author=Administrator|date=6 June 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://karennationalunion.net/index.php/burma/about-the-knu/knu-history|title=KNU History|work=karennationalunion.net|access-date=27 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913081501/http://karennationalunion.net/index.php/burma/about-the-knu/knu-history|archive-date=13 September 2017|url-status=dead}}

{{flagicon image|United Wa State Army flag.png}} United Wa State Army

|None

|1989

|Bao Youxiang

|

rowspan="18"|{{NGA}}

|24px Indigenous People of Biafra

|Eastern Security Network

|Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria

|2012

|Nnamdi Kanu

|

Adaka Biafra Marine Commandos

|None

|rowspan="13"|Conflict in the Niger Delta

|

|

|{{cite web|url=http://www.otimestv.com/2016/06/breaking-new-deadly-group-adaka-biafra.html|title=Oriental Times: BREAKING: New Deadly Group, 'Adaka Biafra Marine Commando' Blow Up Shell Trunk Line In Rivers|website=www.otimestv.com|access-date=2016-06-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623125341/http://www.otimestv.com/2016/06/breaking-new-deadly-group-adaka-biafra.html|archive-date=23 June 2016|url-status=dead}}

Asawana Deadly Force of Niger Delta (ADFND)

|None

|

|

|{{cite web|url=http://www.news24.com.ng/National/News/new-militant-group-asawana-deadly-force-of-niger-delta-demands-sovereign-state-20160624|title=New militant group Asawana Deadly Force of Niger Delta demands sovereign state|access-date=2016-06-27}}

Biafra Avengers

|None

|

|

|{{cite web|url=http://www.thebiafraherald.co/2016/06/biafra-avengers-beware-of-carrots-on.html|title=BIAFRA AVENGERS: BEWARE OF CARROTS ON SCORPION INFESTED STICKS|publisher=The Biafra Herald|website=www.thebiafraherald.co|access-date=2016-06-27}}

Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force

|None

|

|

|{{cite web|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/joint-niger-delta-liberation-force-new-rebels-threaten-nigeria-missile-attack-7-june-1563488|title=Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force: Why are new militant groups emerging in Nigeria?|date=2016-06-03|access-date=2016-06-27}}

Joint Revolutionary Council of the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force (JNDLF)

|None

|

|

|{{cite web|url=https://ikemdaniel.wordpress.com/2016/06/11/joint-niger-delta-liberation-force-jndlfwhy-we-ceased-fire-on-our-earlier-missiles-launch/?iframe=true&theme_preview=true|title=JOINT NIGER DELTA LIBERATION FORCE (JNDLF):"Why We Ceased-fire on Our Earlier Missiles Launch" |last=Daniel |first= Ikem |date=2016-06-11|website=Ikem Daniel Blog !! |access-date=2016-06-27}}

{{flagicon image|Flag of the Ogoni people.svg}} Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta

|None

|2004

|Henry Okah

|

File:Niger Delta Union party flag.png Niger Delta Avengers

|None

|2016

|

|{{cite web|url=http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/niger-delta-avengers/|title=Who are the Niger Delta Avengers? - Vanguard News|date=2016-05-15|language=en-US|access-date=2016-06-27}}

{{flagicon image|Flag of the Ogoni people.svg}} Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force

|None

|2004

|

|

Niger Delta Red Squad

|None

|

|

|{{cite web|url=http://www.otimestv.com/2016/06/breaking-new-militant-group-emerges-in.html|title=Oriental Times: BREAKING: New Militant Group Emerges In Imo, Threatens To Shut Down All Oil Facilities|website=www.otimestv.com|access-date=2016-06-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815131605/http://www.otimestv.com/2016/06/breaking-new-militant-group-emerges-in.html|archive-date=15 August 2016|url-status=dead}}

Red Egbesu Water Lions

|None

|

|

|{{cite web|url=http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/militants-shift-attack-bayelsa-bomb-agip-gas-pipeline|title=Militants shift attack to Bayelsa, bomb Agip gas pipeline; demand release of Kanu, Dasuki|date=19 May 2016|access-date=2016-06-27}}

Red Scorpion

|None

|

|

|{{cite web|url=https://www.informationng.com/2016/06/new-militant-group-red-scorpion-blows-pipeline-in-imo-state.html|title=New Militant Group, "Red Scorpion" Blows Pipeline In Imo State – INFORMATION NIGERIA|date=22 June 2016|access-date=2016-06-27}}

Utorogun Liberation Movement (ULM)

|None

|

|

|{{cite web|url=http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/new-militant-group-threatens-blow-utorogun-gas-plant/|title=New militant group threatens to blow up Utorogun gas plant – Vanguard News|date=2016-06-16|language=en-US|access-date=2016-06-27}}

Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta

|None

|

|

|{{cite web|url=http://dailypost.ng/2016/06/08/another-militant-group-emerges-in-niger-delta-demands-60-of-oil-blocks/|title=Another militant group emerges in Niger Delta, demands 60% of oil blocks – Daily Post Nigeria|date=8 June 2016|access-date=2016-06-27}}

{{flagicon image|Flag of Ansaru.svg}} Ansaru

|None

|rowspan="3"|Islamist insurgency in Nigeria

|2012

|

|

{{flagicon image|Flag of Jihad.svg}} Boko Haram

|None

|2002

|Abu Umaimata

|

{{flagicon image|Flag of Jihad.svg}} Lakurawa

|None

|2016

|Ameer Habib Tajje

|

Fulani herdsmen

|None

|Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria

|1999

|

|{{cite web|url=http://www.trackingterrorism.org/group/fulani-herdsmen-nigeria|title=Fulani Herdsmen (Nigeria) {{!}} Terrorist Groups {{!}} TRAC|website=www.trackingterrorism.org|access-date=2016-06-27}}

rowspan="5"|{{PAK}}

|{{flagicon image|BRA flag.jpg}} Baloch Republican Army

|None

|rowspan="3"|Insurgency in Balochistan

|2007

|Brahumdagh Bugti

|{{cite news|first1=Aoun|last1=Sahi|first2=Mark|last2=Magnier|url=https://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-passenger-train-bomb-pakistan-20131021,0,1329093.story|title=Passenger train bombed in Pakistan, at least seven dead|date=21 October 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times | access-date=22 October 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024022807/http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-passenger-train-bomb-pakistan-20131021%2C0%2C1329093.story|archive-date=24 October 2013}}

{{flagicon image|Balochistan Flag.svg}} Balochistan Liberation Army

|None

|2000

|Hyrbyair Marri

|

{{flagicon image|Flag of Jaish al-Adl.svg}} Jaish ul-Adl

|None

|2012

|Salahuddin Farooqui

|

{{flagicon image|Flag of Tehrik-i-Taliban.svg}} Tehrik-i-Taliban

|

|Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

|2007

|Noor Wali Mehsud

|{{cite web|url=http://www.cfr.org/pakistan/pakistans-new-generation-terrorists/p15422|last1=Laub|first1=Zachary|last2=Bajoria|first2=Jayshree|last3=Masters|first3=Jonathan|title=Pakistan's New Generation of Terrorists|publisher=Council on Foreign Relations|date=18 November 2013|access-date=27 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170515081851/http://www.cfr.org/pakistan/pakistans-new-generation-terrorists/p15422|archive-date=15 May 2017|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|last=Rehmat|first=Kamran|title=Swat: Pakistan's lost paradise|publisher=Al Jazeera | place=Islamabad|date=27 January 2009|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/focus/2009/01/200912512351598892.html|access-date=3 February 2009}}{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13446862|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415062138/http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13446862|archive-date=2009-04-15|title=Pakistan's extremists: The slide downhill|date=8 April 2009|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=19 April 2009}}

{{flagicon image
}Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan

|None

|

|2023

|Maulana Abdullah Yaghistani

|

|-

|rowspan="8"|{{PSE}}

|{{flagicon image|Infobox_al-Aqsa.png}} Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades

|None

|

|2000

|

|

|-

|Army of Islam

|None

|

|2006

|Mumtaz Dughmush

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_Democratic_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine.svg}} Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

|National Resistance Brigades

|

|1968

|Nayef Hawatmeh

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Flag of al-Qassam Brigades.svg}} Hamas

|Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades

|

|1987

|Khaled Mashal

|

|-

|Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

|Al-Quds Brigades

|

|1987

|Ziyad al-Nakhalah / Abd Al Aziz Awda

|

|-

|Lions' Den

|None

|

|2022

|

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Hand_drawn_PFLP_logo.jpg}} Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

|Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades

|

|1967

|Ahmad Sa'adat

|

|-

|Popular Resistance Committees

|Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades

|

|2000

|Ayman al-Shashniya

|

|-

|rowspan="3"|{{PRY}}

|{{flagicon image|Armed Peasant Association flag.png}} Armed Peasant Association (ACA)

|None

|rowspan="3"|Insurgency in Paraguay

|2014

|

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|KVGP FLAG.jpg}} Army of Marshal López (Ejército del Mariscal López, EML)

|None

|

|

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Insignia del EPP.svg}} Paraguayan People's Army (EPP)

|None

|2006

|Osvaldo Villalba

|

|-

|rowspan="2"|{{PER}}

|{{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_Militarized_Communist_Party_of_Peru.svg}} Militarized Communist Party of Peru

|None

|rowspan="2"|Internal conflict in Peru

|1992

|Comrade José

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Flag of Sendero Luminoso.svg}} Shining Path

|None

|1960s

|Abimael Guzmán

|

|-

|rowspan="2"|{{PHL}}

|{{flagicon image|Flag of Jihad.svg}} Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters

|None

|rowspan="2"|Civil conflict in the Philippines

|2008

|Esmail Abdulmalik

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Flag of the Communist Party of the Philippines (alternative II).svg}} Communist Party of the Philippines

|New People's Army

|1968

|

|{{cite web|last=Powell|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Powell|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/former/powell/remarks/2002/12542.htm|title=Designation of a Foreign Terrorist Organization|publisher=U.S. State Department | date=9 August 2002|access-date=3 March 2011}}

|-

|{{SEN}}

|{{Flagicon|Casamance}} Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance

|None

|Casamance conflict

|1982

|

|

|-

|rowspan="3"|{{SSD}}

|{{flagicon image|Nuer White Army Flag.svg}} Nuer White Army

|None

|rowspan="3"|Ethnic violence in South Sudan

|1991

|Bordoang Leah

|

|-

|{{flagicon|South Sudan}} South Sudan Democratic Movement

|None

|2010

|John Uliny

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Flag of the SPLA (2011 to present).svg}} Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition

|None

|2013

|Riek Machar

|

|-

| rowspan="6" |{{SDN}}

|Sudanese Awakening Revolutionary Council

|None

|War in Darfur

|2014

|Musa Hilal

|

|-

|Janjaweed

|None

|rowspan="5"|Sudanese civil war (2023)

|1987

|

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Emblem_of_the_Rapid_Support_Forces.png}} Rapid Support Forces

|None

|2013

|Hemedti

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Flag_of_SLM_(al-Nur).svg}} Sudan Liberation Movement (al-Nur)

|None

|2006

|Abdul Wahid al-Nur

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Flag_of_SPLM-N.svg}} Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North (al-Hilu)

|None

|2017

|Abdelaziz al-Hilu

|

|-

|Tamazuj

|None

|

|

|

|-

|rowspan="9"|{{SYR}}

|{{flagicon image|De facto SA-NES Flag.svg}} Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria

|

|rowspan="9"|Syrian Civil War

|2013

|Îlham Ehmed / Mansur Selum

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Republic_(1958–1971),_Flag_of_Syria_(1980–2024).svg}} Coastal Shield Brigade

|None

|2025

|Miqdad Fatiha

|

|-

|Guardians of Truth Battalions

|None

|2025

|

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|JunudAlMakhdiFlag.png}} Junud al-Makhdi

|

  • Jamaat Bulgar
  • Jaish al-Shomal al-Islami

|2016

|Sayfuddin al-Tatari

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Republic_(1958–1971),_Flag_of_Syria_(1980–2024).svg}} Military Council for the Liberation of Syria

|None

|2025

|Ghiath Suleiman Dalla

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Flag of Jihad.svg}} So Be Steadfast Operations Room

|

|2020

|

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Syrian_Popular_Resistance.png}} Syrian Popular Resistance

|None

|2024

|

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Flag_of_The_Islamic_Resistance_Front_in_Syria.svg}} Islamic Resistance Front in Syria

|None

|2024

|

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Ya Ali Popular Formations Flag.png}} Ya Ali Popular Formations

|None

|2025

|

|

|-

|rowspan="5"|{{THA}}

|{{flagicon image|Flag of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional.svg}} Barisan Revolusi Nasional

|None

|rowspan="5"|South Thailand insurgency

|1963

|

|

|-

|Gerakan Mujahidin Islam Patani

|None

|1995

|Nasoree Saesang

|

|-

|Islamic Liberation Front of Patani

|None

|1947

|Tengku Mahmood Mahyideen / Tengku Abdul Jalal

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Flag of Pattani.svg}} Patani United Liberation Organisation

|None

|1968

|

|

|-

|Runda Kumpulan Kecil

|None

|2000

|Rorhing Ahsong

|

|-

|{{TUN}}

|File:ShababFlag.svg Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade

|None

|

|

|

|-

|rowspan="9"|{{TUR}}

|Islamic Party of Kurdistan

|None

|rowspan="4"|Kurdish–Turkish conflict

|1979

|Muhammad Salih Mustafa

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Flag of Koma Komalên Kurdistan.svg}} Kurdistan Communities Union

|None

|2005

|Abdullah Öcalan

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|InfoboxTAK.png}} Kurdistan Freedom Hawks

|None

|2004

|

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Green Shahada.png}} Kurdish Hezbollah

|None

|1983

|İsa Altsoy

|

|-

|Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (Maoist Party Centre)

|None

|Maoist insurgency in Turkey

|1987

|

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|IBDA-C.svg}} Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front

|None

|

|1970

|

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Infobox HBDH.png}} Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement

|

|

|2016

|

|

|-

|{{flagicon image|Dhkp.svg}} Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front

|None

|

|1994

|

|

|-

|Turkish Islamic Jihad

|None

|

|

|

|

|-

|rowspan="1"|{{UGA}}

|Uganda Coalition for Change (UCFC)

|None

|

|2021

|

|{{Cite web|url=https://allafrica.com/stories/202112220106.html|title = Uganda: Security Confirms New Rebel Group Behind Recent Attacks on Police Posts - Eight Arrested|date = 22 December 2021}}

|-

|rowspan="4"|{{GBR}}

|Arm na Poblachta

|None

|rowspan="4"|Dissident Irish republican campaign

|2017

|

|

|-

|Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)

|None

|1994

|Continuity Army Council

|

|-

|New Irish Republican Army

|None

|2012

|Army Council

|

|-

|Real Ulster Freedom Fighters

|None

|2007

|

|

|-

|rowspan="2"|{{YEM}}

|{{flagicon image|Houthis Logo.png}} Houthi movement

|Supreme Political Council

|rowspan="2"|

|1994

|Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi

|

|-

|{{flagicon|South Yemen}} Southern Movement

|Southern Transitional Council

|2007

|Aidarus al-Zoubaidi

|

|-

|}

{{anchor|Groups which control territory|Groups who control territory}} Groups that control territory

{{Main|List of rebel groups that control territory}}

Groups that "control territory" are defined as any group that hold any populated or inhabited town, city, village, or defined area that is under the direct administration or military control of the group. Such control may be contested and might be temporary or fluctuating, especially under the circumstance of conflict. It does not include the governments of stable breakaway states or other states with limited recognition.

See also

References

{{Reflist}}

{{Secession in Countries}}

Category:Rebel groups by country