guerrilla
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County formalized a local brigade program — which has existed in various forms as guerrilla groups of good Samaritans for decades — in 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner explains how Houthis' precision strikes and guerrilla tactics have made it difficult for Saudi forces to gain the upper hand.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Castro promoted guerrilla movements throughout Latin America and leveraged his alliance with the Soviet Union to send tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers into Africa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Under the departing President Gustavo Petro, a former leftist guerrilla, the government embarked on simultaneous peace negotiations with about a dozen narco-trafficking groups to urge them to disarm and abandon drug smuggling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The men became excited and craned to get a better look, and indeed, the heavily forested area appeared as though it could shelter a nascent guerrilla force.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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A Colombian judge on Thursday ordered President Abelardo de la Espriella's right-wing government to suspend bombings of guerrillas if information suggests the presence of recruited minors.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
For generations, these documents were little more than family heirlooms that served as painful reminders of fortunes lost after the revolution led by Fidel Castro’s bearded guerrillas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Believing he would replicate the triumph in Cuba, he went to Bolivia with a small group of would-be guerrillas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Like other former guerrillas, he said he had renounced violence.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
The guerrillas are small groups of Filipino combatants who work with the US military to fight the Japanese.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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