militia
Example Sentences
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That same night, Israel got a tip from ordinary Iranians that the leader of the feared Basij militia, Gholamreza Soleimani, was holing up with his deputies in a tent in a wooded area in Tehran.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the regime’s primary fighting force, has lost much of its infrastructure, and some members of the basij militia reportedly are refusing to show up for work.
Yes, even Israel, whose air force was called upon to aid northern tribal militias during their civil war with the Yemeni republic and Egyptian forces.
They entered the global stage as Yemen descended into civil war more than a decade ago when the ragtag militia fighters stormed Sanaa and ousted the government from most population centres.
From Barron's
When foreign airstrikes have helped topple autocratic regimes in the region, they were supplemented with U.S. troops on the ground, as in Iraq or Afghanistan, or coordinated with local armed militias, as in Libya.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
