This is a list of important guerrilla movements. It gives their English name, common acronym, and main country of operation. Many groups have been left off (see external link for list of more groups), and some may be better classified as terrorists than guerrillas.

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Contents

1 North America 2 South America 3 Europe 4 Africa 5 Asia 6 Middle East

North America

• Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front or FMLN El Salvador
• Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity or URNG
• Quantrill's Raiders led by William Quantrill - United States
• Sandinista National Liberation Front - Nicaragua
• Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Zapatistas or EZLN -Chiapas, Mexico

South America

• Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC - Colombia
• ELN - Colombia
• Shining Path - Peru
• Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement or MRTA - Peru
• Surinamese Liberation Army - Suriname
• Contras - Nicaragua (1980s)
• Sandinistas - Nicaragua (late 1970s: guerrilla movement, 1980s: in government)

Europe

• National Liberation Army - Albania
• Basque Fatherland and Liberty or ETA - Spain
• EOKA - Cyprus
• Kosovo Liberation Army - Kosovo or Yugoslavia
• Kosovo Republic Armed Forces or FARK - Kosovo or Yugoslavia
• National Liberation Army - Yugoslavia
• Provisional IRA - island of Ireland
• Irish National Liberation Army - island of Ireland
• Ulster Defence Association - Northern Ireland
• Red Hand Defenders - Northern Ireland
• Continuity IRA - island of Ireland
• Real IRA - island of Ireland
• Chechen separatist guerrillas under nominal leadership of Aslan Maskhadov - Chechnya

Historic

• Metsavaennad "forest brethren" - Estonia (World War II)
• World War II Resistance movements in various countries, some sponsored by the United Kingdom government, other by Soviet Union;
• 'Old' IRA - Ireland (prior to the establishment of an independent state of Ireland)
• Chetniks - Yugoslavia
• Baader-Meinhof Gang - West Germany
• Lithuanian Resist (Forest Brothers) - Lithuania antisoviet partisan group after World War II

Africa

• African National Congress (ANC) - South Africa (political wing of MK)
• Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) - South Africa (armed wing of ANC)
• Mau Mau - Kenya
• UNITA - Angola
• Eritrean Liberation Front or ELF - Eritrea
• Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy or LURD - Liberia
• Popular Front for the Liberation of Sakiet el Hamra and Rio de Oro or Polisario - Western Sahara or Morocco
• Zimbabwe African People's Union - Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
• Mozambican National Resistance or RENAMO - Mozambique
• South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) - Namibia

Asia

• Northern Alliance - Afghanistan
• Taliban -- Afghanistan
• Al Qaeda -- has been based in Afghanistan
• Khmer Rouge - Cambodia
• Mujahedin - (generic grouping) Afghanistan, Middle East
• Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) East-Timor
• Pathet Lao - Laos
• Moro Islamic Liberation Front - Philippines
• Hukbalahaps - Philippines
• New People's Army - Philippines
• Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) - Sri Lanka

Historic

• Communist Party of China - China
• National Liberation Front (NLF) - Vietnam
• Wingate's Raiders - Burma

Middle East

• Irgun - Israel
• Haganah- Israel
• Lehi (group)
• Black September
• PLO
• Al Aqsa Matyrs Brigades
• Hamas
• Islamic Jihad
• Hezbollah
• Iraqi resistance
• Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arab Gulf

See also:

• List of guerrillas
• List of terrorist groups
• Terrorism

External links

• Complete List of Terrorist and Insurgency Groups Worldwide (about 371 in all)