bandits
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The U.K. government has advised against nearly all travel to the Central African Republic, and Brown said he was warned about rebel fighters, bandits, poachers, Russian mercenaries, dengue fever and the Ebola virus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
The military is stretched thin on other fronts as well, including fighting armed gangs known as "bandits" in the northwest and separatists in the southeast.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
Some historians have argued that Murrieta was simply a mashup of Mexican bandits named Joaquin then operating in the gold region.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Other plots involve bandits, guns and an Indigenous tribe, the Cayuse, about to sign a treaty and a rebel faction out to scotch it.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
The Maryland countryside, with its smugglers and spies and bandits, is the last place Fletcher wants to spend the night.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
