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militia

[mi-lish-uh] / mɪˈlɪʃ ə /
NOUN
citizen soldiers
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"We have taken control of Mekelle and we are marching forward," a commander with a pro-government militia told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

A team from the Journal abruptly left Baghdad this month after Iraqi, U.S. and European officials warned of a security threat that American officials later said was a kidnapping risk by a Shiite militia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The fighting around Lalibela has involved the army and an Amhara militia that has allied with Tigrayan fighters.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

At age eighteen, he joined the Wiltshire militia in 1807.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

Here were acres upon acres of meadow and cow pasture, hard ground cleared for the drilling of militia.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

They added: "Any actions of the Libyan militias are not attributable to the United States, as would be required for this claim to succeed."

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

But federal forces and pro-government militias have pushed them back and are heading north towards the capital, Mekelle, having seized the city's airport on Friday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

A previous confrontation in 2017 between those militias and Iraqi Kurdish forces, known as the peshmerga, ended with the Kurds having to back down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

His group and other militias hold top positions in ministries, as well as dozens of seats in Iraq’s parliament where they played a role in Zaidi’s selection in the negotiations that followed last year’s election.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Later, during their war for independence from Britain, the separatists relied on militias to fight the British and their Indigenous allies.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz


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