insurgents

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Twenty years ago, the grim and creatively valorous third season thrust the story’s human heroes into the role of insurgents.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

Australian troops had been battling Taliban insurgents at the site near Tarin Kowt, in central Afghanistan, and Roberts-Smith's SAS crew were called in to clear it after an airstrike, the court documents state.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

"But if the allegation is that insurgents used the market, that makes their claim very baseless."

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

But when I asked if she thought the Surf City insurgents could upend California politics, the professor quickly said, “No.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Because really, Werner thinks, they are all insurgents, all partisans, every single person they see.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr