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

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Cuba

El Salvador

Mexico

Paraguay

Peru

Venezuela

Other Countries

North America

Atomwaffen Division – Anti-government neo-Nazi terrorist group
Black Liberation Army – United States
American Indian Movement – United States – South Dakota
Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance – Guadeloupe
Earth Liberation Front – United States
MEChA's Brown Berets – United States – "Border War"

Historical

Symbionese Liberation Army – United States
Weather Underground – United States
Port7Alliance – United States
Black Panther Party – United States
Quantrill's Raiders led by William Quantrill – United States
Front de libération du Québec – Canada
Direct Action – Canada, Know by the media as Squamish Five. An Anarchist and Feminist self styled urban guerrilla group.
The Order—United States
3 Percenters – United States

Europe

Cyprus

[Cyprus Emergency] – [Cyprus]

National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters during Cyprus Emergency – Cyprus
National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters-B during Cypriot intercommunal violence and Turkish invasion of Cyprus – Cyprus
Turkish Resistance Organisation during Cypriot intercommunal violence and Turkish invasion of Cyprus – Cyprus

Germany

Ireland

Spain

France

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Other

Other

Action Directe – France
Democratic Army of Greece, Communist partisans during the Greek Civil War – Greece
National Liberation Army – North Macedonia
Albanian National Army – North Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece
Kosovo Liberation Army – Kosovo
Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac – Serbia
Chechen guerrillas under nominal leadership of Aslan Maskhadov – Chechnya
Armed Revolutionary Front for the Communism - Italy
Red Brigades – Italy
Lisowczycy
Snapphane Movement – Sweden, pro-Danish partisans that fought against the Swedes in the 17th century.
Guerrilla warfare in the Peninsular War
Briganti
Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party
Irish Republican Army – Ireland
Kuva-yi Milliye during Turkish War of Independence – Turkey
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Macedonia (region)*
Resistance during [World War II|World War II Resistance movement]s in various countries, many sponsored by the Allied governments:
* Soviet partisans in the Axis-occupied territories during World War II
* Greek People's Liberation Army – Greece
* Freies Deutschland – German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union and Germany
* Polish resistance movement in World War II.
** Henryk Dobrzański
** Armia Krajowa (Home Army)
** Leśni
** Silent Unseen
** Battalion Zośka
** Uderzeniowe Bataliony Kadrowe
** National Armed Forces
** Bataliony Chłopskie
** Armia Ludowa
** Bielski partisans
** Parczew partisans
* Yugoslav Partisans – Yugoslavia
* Chetniks – Yugoslavia
Anti-Soviet partisans and pro-Axis partisans
* Forest Brothers – Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania
* Werwolf – Germany
* Anti-communist resistance in Poland (1944–1953) – Poland
** Cursed soldiers
* Ukrainian Insurgent Army – Ukraine

Africa

Republic of the Rif– Morocco Battle of Annual Abd el-Krim's guerrilla tactics influenced Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and Che Guevara.
Umkhonto we Sizwe – South Africa
Ambazonia Defence Forces – Southern Cameroons/Cameroon
Ambazonia Restoration Forces – Southern Cameroon/Ambazonia
Southern Cameroons Defence Forces – Southern Cameroons/Cameroon
Ambazonia Self-Defence Council – Southern Cameroons/Cameroon
Kenya Land and Freedom Army – Kenya
National Liberation Front of Angola – Angola
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Angola
National Union for the Total Independence of Angola – Angola
Eritrean Liberation Front – Eritrea
Eritrean People's Liberation Front – Eritrea
Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy – Liberia
Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro – Western Sahara
Zimbabwe African People's Union – Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
Mozambican Liberation Front – Mozambique
Mozambican National Resistance – Mozambique
South-West Africa People's Organization – Namibia
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta – Nigeria
Lesotho Liberation Army – Lesotho
Lord's Resistance Army – Uganda
Uganda People's Democratic Army – Uganda
National Resistance Army – Uganda
Azanian People's Liberation Army – South Africa
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging – South Africa
Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia
Oromo Liberation Front
Sudan People's Liberation Army – SPLA. South Sudanese based rebel group that fought against the Islamist and Arab dominated regime in Khartoum during the Second Sudanese Civil War. They now control the independent nation of South Sudan
Sudan Liberation Movement/Army
Justice and Equality Movement
Janjaweed
Niger Movement for Justice
Patriotic Liberation Front - Niger
Green Resistance – Gaddafi supporters in Libya post–2011
Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda or FDLR – Successor to ALiR, Hutu extremists
Army for the Liberation of Rwanda or ALiR – Hutu nationalists who fled Rwanda after the 1994 Genocide and took up arms in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo
Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition or SPLM-IO – Somaliland
Lakurawa - Nigeria
25 January Revolutionary Movement - Egypt

Asia

Turkistan Islamic Party – Xinjiang, China
Northern Alliance – Afghanistan
Taliban – Afghanistan
Haqqani Network – Afghanistan
Jundallah – Iran/Pakistan
Free Joseon – North Korea
Al-Qaeda – has been based in Afghanistan
Mujahedin – Central Asia, Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia
Free Papua Movement – Indonesia
Moro National Liberation Front – Philippines
East Indonesia Mujahideen – Indonesia
Moro Islamic Liberation Front – Philippines
New People's Army – Philippines
Abu Sayyaf – Philippines
Khmer National Unity Front – Cambodia
Cambodian Freedom Fighters – Cambodia
Lashkar-e-Toiba – based in Pakistan
United Liberation Front of Asom – India/Bangladesh
Balochistan Liberation Army – Pakistan
Balochistan Liberation Front – Pakistan
Baloch Nationalist Army – Pakistan
PJAK-PKK —Kurdistan
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front – Kashmir
Hizbul Mujahideen – Kashmir
Jaish-e-Mohammed – Pakistan
Naxalite Movement – India
People's Liberation Army, Nepal – Nepal
People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (India) – India

Historical

Chushi Gangdruk – Tibet, China
Chinese Communist Party – China
Pathet Lao – Laos
Katipunan – Philippines
Righteous army – Korea
Korean People's Guerrilla Army – Korea
Khmer Rouge – Cambodia
National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam – Vietnam
Hukbalahaps – Philippines
Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor East-Timor
Viet Minh – Vietnam
Communist Party of Malaya – Malaya/Malaysia
Shivaji – India
Free Aceh Movement – Aceh, Indonesia
Saqqawists – Kingdom of Afghanistan
People's Liberation Guerrilla Army – India
Mukti Bahini - East Pakistan (Bangladesh)
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam – Sri Lanka

Middle East

Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria – Syria
The Islamic Resistance Front in Syria - Syria
Muqdad Coastal Shield Brigade - Syria
Irgun
PKK — Kurdistan
PKK - YPG — Kurdistan
PKK - PJAK — Kurdistan
Lehi
Ansar al-Islam
Popular Resistance Committees
Hezbollah – Lebanon
Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman
Front for the Liberation of the Golan – Syria

Iran

Iraq

Palestine