Within state
Rebel group
Subgroups / Affiliates
Conflict
Year Established
Leader
References
Multinational: Democratic Republic of the Congo Uganda
Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)
None
1996
Musa Baluku
[1 ]
Multinational: Algeria Bangladesh Burkina Faso Chad Egypt Indonesia Iraq Israel Ivory Coast Kenya Libya Mali Niger Nigeria Pakistan Russia Somalia Syria Tunisia Yemen
Al-Qaeda
1988
Saif al-Adel
[2 ] [3 ] [4 ]
Multinational: Afghanistan Algeria Bangladesh Burkina Faso Cameroon Chad Democratic Republic of the Congo Egypt Indonesia India Iraq Iran Ivory Coast Libya Mozambique Mali Niger Nigeria Pakistan Philippines Russia Saudi Arabia Somalia Syria Thailand Tunisia Turkey Yemen
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
1999
Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi
[5 ] [6 ] [7 ] [8 ] [9 ]
Multinational: Afghanistan Iran Pakistan Syria Tajikistan
Jama'at al-Jihad al-Islami
None
2002
Multinational: Indonesia Malaysia Philippines Singapore Thailand
Jemaah Islamiyah
None
1993
Abu Bakar Baasyir
Multinational: Iraq Iran Syria Turkey
Kurdistan Workers' Party
1978
Abdullah Öcalan
Multinational: Central African Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo South Sudan Uganda
Lord's Resistance Army
None
1987
Joseph Kony
[10 ]
Afghanistan
Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin
None
Afghanistan conflict
1975
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
[11 ] [12 ]
Fidai Mahaz
None
2013
Mullah Najibullah
National Resistance Front of Afghanistan
None
2021
Ahmad Massoud
Warriors of Khazaristan
None
2021
[13 ]
Angola
Republic of Cabinda
FLEC
Cabinda War
1975
António Bento Bembe
Burkina Faso
Ansar ul Islam
None
Insurgency in the Maghreb
2016
Abdoul Salam Dicko
Cameroon
Ambazonia
List of Ambazonian militant groups
Anglophone Crisis
2017
Samuel Ikome Sako
Central African Republic
Coalition of Patriots for Change
Central African Republic Civil War
2020
François Bozizé (alleged)
Movement of Central African Liberators for Justice
None
2008
Toumou Deya Gilbert
Chile
Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco
Lafkenche Mapuche Resistance[14 ]
Mapuche conflict
1998
Héctor Llaitul
Weichán Auka Mapu
None
2011
Collective leadership
China
East Turkestan Islamic Movement
None
Xinjiang conflict
1988
Abdullah Mansour
Colombia
Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia
None
2001
Dario Antonio Úsuga
Indigenous Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Pacific
None
National Liberation Army (ELN)
None
1964
Antonio Garcia
[15 ]
Popular Liberation Army (EPL)
None
1967
FARC dissidents
None
2016
Gentil "Cabuyo" Duarte
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Bundu dia Kongo (BDK)
None
1986
Ne Muanda Nsemi
CODECO
None
1970s
Coordination for a Referendum on Self-determination for Katanga (CORAK)
None
Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR)
None
2000
Kamwina Nsapu militia
None
Mai-Mai
None
1960s
Mai Mai Kata Katanga
None
2011
Mai Mai Gédéon
None
Mai Mai Sheka
None
Mai-Mai Simba
None
Mai Mai Yakutumba
None
March 27 Movement (M27)
None
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
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
None
2012
Bertrand Bisimwa
Egypt
Al Furqan Brigades
None
2013
Ansar al-Sharia
None
2012
Ahmed Ashush
Egyptian Islamic Jihad
None
1979
Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif
Hasm Movement
None
2015
Soldiers of Egypt
None
2013
Ethiopia
Oromo Liberation Army
Oromo conflict
2020
Kumsa Diriba
Tigray People's Liberation Front
Tigray Defense Forces
Tigray War
1975
Debretsion Gebremichael
France
Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV)
None
1907
Greece
Black Star
None
Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei
None
2008
Popular Fighters Group
None
2013
Revolutionary Struggle
None
2003
Sect of Revolutionaries
None
2009
India
Hizbul Mujahideen
Dukhtaran-e-Milat [16 ]
Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
1989
Sayeed Salahudeen
[17 ] [18 ]
Jaish-e-Mohammed
• Lashkar-e-Mustafa[19 ]
• Kashmir Tigers[20 ]
2000
Masood Azhar
[21 ]
Lashkar-e-Taiba
None
1986
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
[22 ]
United Jihad Council
None
1994
National Socialist Council of Nagaland
None
Insurgency in Northeast India
1980
Thuingaleng Muivah
United Liberation Front of Asom
None
1979
[23 ]
Communist Party of India (Maoist)
None
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
2004
Nambala Keshava Rao
[24 ]
Maoist Communist Party of Manipur
None
2011
International Sikh Youth Federation
None
1987
Lakhbir Singh Rode
[25 ]
Khalistan Zindabad Force
None
1988
Ranjit Singh Neeta
[15 ]
Students' Islamic Movement of India
None
1977
[26 ]
Indonesia
East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT)
None
2010
Ali Kalora
Free Papua Movement
None
Papua conflict
1963
Mathias Wenda
Jamaah Ansharusy Syariah (JAS)
None
Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD)
None
Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT)
None
2008
Abu Bakar Ba'asyir
Jemaah Islamiyah (JI )
None
1993
[27 ]
South Moluccas
None
1950
Iran
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
None
Western Iran clashes
1945
Mustafa Hijri
Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan
None
2000
Abdullah Mohtadi
Kurdistan Freedom Party
None
1991
Hussein Yazdanpanah
Kurdistan Free Life Party
None
2004
Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi
Jaish ul-Adl
None
Insurgency in Balochistan
2012
Salahuddin Farooqui
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
People's Mujahedin of Iran
None
1965
Maryam Rajavi
Iraq
Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order
None
Insurgency in Iraq
2006
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
Ireland
Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)
None
Dissident Irish republican campaign
1994
Continuity Army Council
Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA)
None
1997
Army Council
Italy
Informal Anarchist Federation
None
2003
Libya
Brigade 93
None
Libyan Crisis (2011–present)
2012
Salem al-Aawar
Green Resistance
None
2014
Rafallah al-Sahati Brigade
None
Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries
2014
Mustafa al-Sharksi
Toubou Front for the Salvation of Libya
None
2007
Issa Abdel Majid Mansur
Zintan Brigades
None
2011
Kalifah Shahub
Mali
Ansar al-Sharia
None
Mali War
2012
National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad
None
2011
Bilal Ag Acherif
[28 ]
Mexico
Popular Revolutionary Army
None
1996
Edmundo Reyes
[29 ]
Zapatista Army of National Liberation
None
Chiapas conflict
1983
[30 ]
Mozambique
Ansar al-Sunna
None
Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
2015
Myanmar
All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF)
None
Internal conflict in Myanmar
1988
Than Khae
DKBA-5
None
2010
Saw Mo Shay
[31 ]
Shan State Army - South (SSA-S)
None
1996
Yawd Serk
[32 ]
United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC)
2011
Nai Hong Sar
[33 ] [34 ]
United Wa State Army
None
1989
Bao Youxiang
Nigeria
Indigenous People of Biafra
Eastern Security Network
Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria
2012
Nnamdi Kanu
Adaka Biafra Marine Commandos
None
Conflict in the Niger Delta
[35 ]
Asawana Deadly Force of Niger Delta (ADFND)
None
[36 ]
Biafra Avengers
None
[37 ]
Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force
None
[38 ]
Joint Revolutionary Council of the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force (JNDLF)
None
[39 ]
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
None
2004
Henry Okah
Niger Delta Avengers
None
2016
[40 ]
Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force
None
2004
Niger Delta Red Squad
None
[41 ]
Red Egbesu Water Lions
None
[42 ]
Red Scorpion
None
[43 ]
Utorogun Liberation Movement (ULM)
None
[44 ]
Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta
None
[45 ]
Ansaru
None
Islamist insurgency in Nigeria
2012
Fulani herdsmen
None
Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
1999
[46 ]
Pakistan
Baloch Republican Army
None
Insurgency in Balochistan
2007
Brahumdagh Bugti
[47 ]
Balochistan Liberation Army
None
2000
Hyrbyair Marri
Jaish ul-Adl
None
2012
Salahuddin Farooqui
Lashkar-e-Islam
None
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
2004
Mangal Bagh
[48 ]
Tehrik-i-Taliban
2007
Noor Wali Mehsud
[49 ] [50 ] [51 ]
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
None
1996
Lashkar-e-Omar
None
2002
Qari Abdul Hai
[52 ]
Sipah-e-Sahaba
None
1985
Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi
Palestine
Army of Islam
None
2006
Mumtaz Dughmush
Hamas
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
1987
Ismail Haniyeh
Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
Al-Quds Squads
1987
Ziyad al-Nakhalah / Abd Al Aziz Awda
Popular Resistance Committees
Abu Samhadana clan
2000
Ayman al-Shashniya
Paraguay
Armed Peasant Association (ACA)
None
Insurgency in Paraguay
2014
Army of Marshal López (Ejército del Mariscal López, EML)
None
Paraguayan People's Army (EPP)
None
2006
Osvaldo Villalba
Peru
Shining Path
None
Internal conflict in Peru
1960s
Abimael Guzmán
Philippines
Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
None
Civil conflict in the Philippines
2008
Ustadz Karialan
Communist Party of the Philippines
New People's Army
1968
Benito Tiamzon
[53 ]
Rajah Sulaiman Movement
None
1991
Ahmed Santos
[54 ] [55 ]
Senegal
Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance
None
Casamance conflict
1982
South Sudan
Nuer White Army
None
Ethnic violence in South Sudan
1991
Bordoang Leah
South Sudan Democratic Movement
None
2010
John Uliny
South Sudan Liberation Movement
None
1999
Peter Gadet
Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition
None
2013
Riek Machar
Sudan
Alliance of Revolutionary Forces of West Sudan
None
War in Darfur
2006
Liberation and Justice Movement
None
2010
Tijani Sese
National Movement for Reform and Development
None
2004
Khalil Abdallah
National Redemption Front
None
2006
Ahmed Diraige
Sudanese Awakening Revolutionary Council
None
2014
Musa Hilal
Sudan Revolutionary Front
2011
Abdelaziz al-Hilu / Abdul Wahid al Nur / Gibril Ibrahim / Minni Minnawi
Janjaweed
None
1987
Eastern Front
None
2004
Musa Mohamed Ahmed
Rashaida Free Lions
None
1999
Mabrouk Mubarak Salim
Syria
Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
Syrian civil war
2013
Îlham Ehmed / Mansur Selum
Revolutionary Commando Army
None
2016
Muthanna Tala
Syrian Interim Government
2013
Anas al-Abdah
Syrian Salvation Government
2017
Ali Keda
[56 ]
Thailand
Barisan Revolusi Nasional
None
South Thailand insurgency
1963
Gerakan Mujahidin Islam Patani
None
1995
Nasoree Saesang
Islamic Liberation Front of Patani
None
1947
Tengku Mahmud Mahyiddin / Tengku Abdul Jalal
Patani United Liberation Organisation
None
1968
Runda Kumpulan Kecil
None
2000
Rorhing Ahsong
Tunisia
Ansar al-Sharia
None
Insurgency in the Maghreb
2011
Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade
None
Turkey
Civil Protection Units
None
Kurdish–Turkish conflict
2015
Islamic Party of Kurdistan
None
1979
Muhammad Salih Mustafa
Kurdistan Communities Union
None
2005
Abdullah Öcalan
Kurdistan Freedom Hawks
None
2004
Turkish Hezbollah
None
1983
İsa Altsoy
Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (Maoist Party Centre)
None
Maoist insurgency in Turkey
1987
Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front
None
1970
Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement
2016
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front
None
1994
Turkish Islamic Jihad
None
Uganda
Uganda Coalition for Change (UCFC)
None
2021
[57 ]
United Kingdom
Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)
None
Dissident Irish republican campaign
1994
Continuity Army Council
Irish Republican Liberation Army
None
2008
Orange Volunteers
None
1998
Red Hand Defenders
None
1998
Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA)
None
1997
Army Council
Real Ulster Freedom Fighters
None
2007
Yemen
Houthi movement
Supreme Political Council
1994
Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi
Southern Movement
Southern Transitional Council
2007
Aidarus al-Zoubaidi