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 GédéonNone 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