guerrilla
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It also has turned to guerrilla tactics long employed by Yemen’s Houthis to target traffic around the mouth of the Red Sea, deploying spotters in small fishing boats and sending fighters out onto the water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 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
Born in 1954 in Masjed Soleyman in southwestern Iran and trained as a mechanical engineer, Rezaei joined al-Mansouroun, a guerrilla group fighting the Shah’s regime that became a proving ground for Iran’s future security establishment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
According to Ugen and Choedup, one of his uncles died in combat and another in prison after his capture while fighting for Chushi Gangdruk, an anti-China guerrilla force established with CIA support in 1958.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
A Chinese grandmother leads an army of thirty thousand guerrilla warriors against Japanese invaders.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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In February, the guards rescued former vice-presidential candidate and Indigenous leader Aida Quilcue, who was kidnapped and held for several hours by guerrillas in Cauca.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Nor are streets, schools or government buildings named after him, a prohibition he imposed shortly after his guerrillas overthrew Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Since the coup, some of Myanmar's myriad ethnic minority factions have banded with pro-democracy guerrillas to fight the armed forces.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 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
It could give the guerrillas and the Americans added clues and perhaps an advantage.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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