Militias. Medical search. Frequent questions

While the formation of a new Iraqi government is one necessary condition to avert a civil war there, another is for the US and Iraqi governments to get control of the Shiite militias that American forces have been reluctant to fight. (csmonitor.com)
Unfortunately, Iraqi security forces have become increasingly Shiite and, in the case of the police, infiltrated by Shiite militias. (csmonitor.com)
First, the American and Iraqi governments failed to implement the ban on militias negotiated by the CPA and enacted as Iraqi law - even though all militias except the Mahdi Army of the renegade Shiite Muqtada al Sadr agreed to the ban. (csmonitor.com)
Second, the Ministry of Interior, which controls Iraq's police, was allowed to fall into the hands of another Shiite militia, the Badr Corps. (csmonitor.com)
Even as it combats the Sunni insurgency, the US should use whatever clout it has left in Iraq to get control of the Shiite militias. (csmonitor.com)
The alternative is to let Shiite militias flout the law and escalate sectarian violence - just what Sunni extremists such as Al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi want. (csmonitor.com)
however, the ascendancy of Shiite militia groups leaves the country in a volatile state. (brookings.edu)
In this Brookings Doha Center policy briefing, Ranj Alaaldin provides a strategy focused on helping Iraqis reduce the space in which Shiite militias operate by establishing an environment and culture of accountability. (brookings.edu)
He recommends that the United States should shift resources away from the Iraqi political elite and toward the communal Shiite elements of state-aligned militias, tribes, and clerical figures. (brookings.edu)
BAGHDAD - A renegade Mahdi Army militia commander is responsible for the kidnapping Sunday of 10 Shiite and Sunni tribal leaders, according to intelligence reports received by the Multi-National Force in Iraq. (foxnews.com)
According to Asia Times, the only victory is that of Tehran: in Qom, the head of the Revolutionary Guards has mediated between a delegation of Iraqi politicians and Shiite militias, and it is in Qom that the radical al-Sadr has been hiding for months, under the protection of the mullahs. (asianews.it)
They joined the Shiite-dominated militias known in Arabic as the Hashd al Shaabi. (latimes.com)
When Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, a Shiite Muslim cleric and Iraq's highest religious authority, issued a religious edict calling on every able-bodied man to defend the capital, hundreds of thousands left their jobs and joined new militias. (latimes.com)
U.S. warplanes struck targets in Iraq and Syria over the weekend, killing at least 25 members of an Iran-backed Shiite militia group called Kataib Hezbollah that was held responsible for a rocket attack on Friday that killed an American civilian contractor. (breitbart.com)
It was the first Shiite militia in Iraq to be so designated. (breitbart.com)
It was the latest in a string of rocket attacks over the past two months blamed on Iran-backed Shiite militia in Iraq. (breitbart.com)

Begun on March 25, the clashes in Basra between the Mahdi army - the personal militia of the radical imam Moqtada al-Sadr - have also spread to other areas of the country where Shiites are present. (asianews.it)

The 2004 law states that any political party retaining a militia - such as the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq that controls the Badr Corps - should be excluded from politics, instead of being rewarded with high office. (csmonitor.com)
The plethora of groups has resulted in multiple clashes and rivalries among the militias, which further destabilizes Iraq. (brookings.edu)
International arms suppliers, including the USA, European countries, Russia and Iran, must wake up to the fact that all arms transfers to Iraq carry a real risk of ending up in the hands of militia groups with long histories of human rights violations," said Patrick Wilcken, Researcher on Arms Control and Human Rights at Amnesty International. (amnesty.org)
Any state selling arms to Iraq has to show that there are strict measures in place to make sure the weapons will not be used by paramilitary militias to flagrantly violate rights. (amnesty.org)
Radical militias with Iranian support are reportedly attacking Christian communities in Iraq, seizing property and sites of cultural interest. (christianpost.com)

A local militia group is seen at a rally to protest the stay-at-home order amid the Coronavirus pandemic in Columbus, Ohio on April 20, 2020. (newsweek.com)

3. Enforce the disbanding of what is left of the militias after individuals enter job training or Iraqi security services. (csmonitor.com)
Beyond that, US and Iraqi forces must be prepared forcibly to disarm any militias that remain active. (csmonitor.com)
These militia groups have multiple identities and complexities with differing degrees of integration into the Iraqi state, engagement with the international community, and cooperation with Iran. (brookings.edu)
Second, international resources should help empower local actors such as Iraqi NGOs, humanitarian organizations, and civil society actors, which are better positioned to influence the militias to adhere to international norms. (brookings.edu)
Third, as militias might fail in governance and administration, it is crucial to revitalize Iraqi state institutions and security forces so that it can provide basic services to civilians and revive the economy. (brookings.edu)
Paramilitary militias nominally operating as part of the Iraqi armed forces in the fight against the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) are using arms from Iraqi military stockpiles, provided by the USA, Europe, Russia and Iran, to commit war crimes, revenge attacks and other atrocities said Amnesty International in a new report today . (amnesty.org)
The Iraqi authorities have helped to arm and equip the PMU militias and pay their salaries - they must stop turning a blind eye to this systematic pattern of serious human rights violations and war crimes," said Patrick Wilcken. (amnesty.org)
The Iraqi prime minister again expresses hopes for a positive response from the militias to his ultimatum to hand over their weapons. (asianews.it)
In the run-up to Iraqi elections last May, the Iranian-backed militias spawned a political party called Fatah, or Conquest, which netted 54 seats in parliament - more than all but one other party. (latimes.com)
The Iraqi army reported recovering several militia bodies from the attack sites, including a local commander. (breitbart.com)

A man from Muqdadiya told Amnesty International how his 22-year-old brother Amer was among 100 men and boys abducted from their homes in January 2016 when PMU militias went on the rampage in retaliation for a suicide attack on a Shi'a-owned café in the city. (amnesty.org)

Amy Cooter, in the photo above, has spent the past few years getting to know people in Michigan's militia movement. (msnbc.com)
Sociologist Amy Cooter is writing a dissertation on the militia movement at the University of Michigan. (msnbc.com)
Amy Cooter, a senior lecturer in sociology at Vanderbilt University, is considered an expert on Michigan militias. (woodtv.com)
Cooter said the militia groups are not new to the area. (woodtv.com)
Militias have always been very active in Michigan, they're usually just a little more quiet than they've been in recent months," Cooter said. (woodtv.com)
While militia groups can vary in a number of ways and ideologies, Cooter understands why law enforcement would encourage the public to play it safe. (woodtv.com)

There is really no such thing as the Michigan Militia as a result, although the highly visible Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia and groups with which it associates do have more in common than not. (msnbc.com)
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there are dozens of militia groups in Michigan, making it second only to Texas in terms of the number of volunteer militia members it has. (kpbs.org)

On October 9, 2023, several Arab media oulets, among them those affiliated with the Syrian opposition, reported on a heightened level of preparedness on the part of Hizbullah and the Iran-backed militias in Syria in the event that the fighting between Israel and the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip reaches the Syrian arena. (memri.org)

18th regiment Light Infantry Militia. (genuki.org.uk)

But inside the country, you can see a real civil war -- but between militias, not among civilians. (rferl.org)
Despite the signing of a cease-fire agreement on 8 April, Amnesty International continues to receive reports of human rights violations by militia and government forces, including killings and aerial bombings of civilians. (rferl.org)
In a bid to enforce its authority, the Afghan government has scaled up support of anti-Taliban militia - a controversial tactic since such groups have a history of mistreating civilians, according to Human Rights Watch and others. (rawa.org)
Civilians say abuses have risen alongside the growing use of militia this year, as the gunmen are extorting money, stealing property and assaulting people. (rawa.org)
Exasperated by the interim government's failure to curb the militia brigades, thousands of civilians swarmed into the headquarters of several of them in Benghazi on Friday and forced their fighters to scatter - in effect, an angry mob demanding law and order. (floppingaces.net)

According to leaders, the seizures have been carried out in the upscale regions of Baghdad, where militia men have forced entry into homes and businesses with falsified documents," wrote Daftari . (christianpost.com)

The militias became increasingly active in May 2021 in response to the resistance's attacks on junta-appointed ward and village tract administrators and offices. (wikipedia.org)
The attacks by the Arab militia forces, known locally as the 'Janjaweed' -- are reported to have begun in response to the rebellion. (rferl.org)
The UN has repeatedly called on the Sudanese government to end the attacks by the Arab militias. (rferl.org)
The predominantly Shi'a PMU militias have used their arsenal of weapons to carry out or facilitate a systematic pattern of violations, seemingly as revenge in the wake of IS attacks. (amnesty.org)
Despite this, Haftar's militias have continued their attacks on the capital. (turkishpress.com)

Supported by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and led by an IRGC trainee with links to the notorious Gen. Qasem Soleimani, KH was formed in 2006 and has operated as one of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU/PMF) - essentially government-sanctioned vigilante militias that fought against the Islamic State - since 2014. (breitbart.com)

U.S. President George W. Bush said in April, 'The Sudanese government must immediately stop local militias from committing atrocities against the local population and must provide unrestricted access to humanitarian agencies. (rferl.org)

There is [a cycle of] revenge between the Sunni and Shi'ite militias. (rferl.org)
The predominantly Shi'a militias have used those arms to facilitate the enforced disappearance and abduction of thousands of mainly Sunni men and boys, torture and extrajudicial executions as well as wanton destruction of property. (amnesty.org)

PHOENIX - Long before he assembled one of the largest far-right anti-government militia groups in U.S. history, before his Oath Keepers stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Stewart Rhodes was a promising Yale. (nypost.com)
Probably the most important thing to know about the Militia Movement is that it is less cohesive and unified than we typically think of social movements or nation-wide interest groups as being. (msnbc.com)
That is, groups of the Militia Movement even within a given state can vary as much or more than groups separated by state lines. (msnbc.com)
2. Permit militia fighters to join Iraq's security forces as individuals, but not in groups with their command chains still intact. (csmonitor.com)
The rebel groups say the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum has sponsored the militias by giving them automatic weapons and aerial support. (rferl.org)
In this area, Afghanistan's fractured rebel groups are uniting in their hatred of the militia. (csmonitor.com)
The convoy's reception suggested that there is little enmity between mujahideen groups in the countryside, even as Hekmatyar forces continued shelling militia positions in Kabul. (csmonitor.com)
In this episode of "Transnational Trends in Citizenship"-the new season of Order from Ashes- we speak with scholar Amanda Rogers about overlooked aspects of militias and nonstate armed groups in transnational perspective. (tcf.org)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - The Michigan Attorney General's Office is sharing concerns about militia groups across the state. (woodtv.com)
Speaking generally about the often heavily armed groups, Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud offered a warning about the militia. (woodtv.com)
Many militia groups are often anti-government, anti-law enforcement (and) they have these extreme ideologies," Hammoud said. (woodtv.com)
One of the newest groups to emerge on the scene is the Barry County-based Michigan Liberty Militia (MLM), which was founded in 2015. (woodtv.com)
MLM members have been among several militia groups seen center stage at recent rallies, while also attending several other protests claiming to be there as security. (woodtv.com)
From an outside perspective, it can be difficult to tell the difference," Hammoud said about the different types of militia groups. (woodtv.com)
The Hutarees had come out occasionally to practice shooting or training in the woods with other local militia groups. (kpbs.org)
They would always talk about putting together training sessions with other groups but they would always neglect to say when or where," said one local militia member who doesn't want anyone to know he's in a militia. (kpbs.org)
Esper added that the U.S. "will take additional actions as necessary to ensure that we act in our own self-defense and we deter further bad behavior from militia groups or from Iran. (breitbart.com)
The sheriff of Kenosha is telling armed militia groups to stay away from polling places in November. (newsweek.com)
But this election is unfolding against a backdrop where a variety of militias and other right-wing groups have felt emboldened, in large part by Trump's repeated refusal to denounce them, and, at times, his tacit encouragement of them. (newsweek.com)
Most notably, in early 2013 communities throughout the coastal mountain range outside Acapulco, Guerrero, formed militias to confront violence, extortion and other abuses perpetrated by organized criminal groups. (insightcrime.org)
Inspired by these groups, a handful of community leaders in La Ruana, a small town near Apatzingan, decided to form their own militia in early 2013. (insightcrime.org)
A new report finds violent militia groups have become "key" spreaders of vaccine misinformation on the platform. (vice.com)
Violent militia groups have become "key" spreaders of vaccine misinformation on Facebook, and now those groups are using the platform to boost their online followings and urge new followers to engage in violent, real-world protests. (vice.com)
These are the findings of a new report called " Facebook's New Toxic Stew: Militia Groups and Vaccine Conspiracies " from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), a nonprofit that aims to hold Big Tech accountable for its failings. (vice.com)
By leveraging the fear and anxiety about COVID-19 and the pandemic, militia groups like the Three Percenters are reaching new audiences that would have had little or nothing to do with them before. (vice.com)
Groups that call themselves militias are not automatically banned from Facebook, but Pusateri said the company has banned more than 890 of these organizations to date, removing almost 20,000 Facebook groups in the process. (vice.com)
Today the militia groups are focusing more on mask mandates and vaccine mandates being introduced across the country. (vice.com)
Rather than just posting misinformation about these perceived threats online, these militia groups are openly urging their new followers to take up arms against those in authority. (vice.com)
Many of these people joined fringe patriot or militia groups. (cnn.com)
And though he shared the fascination with self-defense that characterizes militia groups, McVeigh decided to take the offensive in his own private war with the government. (cnn.com)

Guy Reffitt, a 49-year-old member of the far-right "Texas Three Percenters" militia group, is the first person to stand trial in connection with the events of Jan. 6, 2021. (nypost.com)

Mr Gafà, who faced allegations of posing as a diplomat to meet Libyan government ministers in Tripoli , was spotted speaking with Haithem Tajouri, the leader of a militia group known as the Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade, sources told Times of Malta . (timesofmalta.com)
PD secretary general Martin Cauchi Inglott said Libyan militia leaders were highly guarded and protected to precisely prevent people from "bumping" into them. (timesofmalta.com)
Previous interim leaders have issued similar calls before without success, in part because the Libyan government still depends on many of the self-organized militias to act as its military, police and national guard. (floppingaces.net)
As recently as Friday the Libyan Army's chief of staff, Yousef al-Mangoush, urged protesters not to molest the many militias that were now officially authorized and ostensibly operating under the army's direction, because the government still needed them to control the country. (floppingaces.net)

The California man, who was allegedly a member of the militia extremist group Boogaloo Boys, is also facing separate charges for killing a Sheriff's deputy. (nypost.com)
After Monday's news about the arrests of nine members of the Hutaree , an extremist Christian militia based in that state, she agreed to share with us some of what she's learned. (msnbc.com)

Hakim Zamili, former head of parliament's security and defense committee, accused the government of being too weak to confront the militias and their growing economic might. (latimes.com)

The residents started massive protests and formed militias. (derechos.org)
Hammoud also warned that militias might use protests as a platform to recruit vulnerable people. (woodtv.com)
And no wonder: private militias have become a very visible symbol of polarized America, and have been deploying themselves with increasing belligerence at anti-racism rallies and other social protests. (newsweek.com)

The beliefs and actions of the indicted Hutaree members, on the other hand, represent an extreme of the militia movement. (msnbc.com)
David Stone Sr. and his wife, Tina, members of the Christian militia Hutaree, lived in these trailers in Clayton, Mich. Last month, the Stones and seven other militia members were indicted on sedition and weapons charges. (kpbs.org)
Prosecutors say David Stone Sr., Tina, his son Joshua and a handful of others were members of a small, violent Christian militia they called the Hutaree. (kpbs.org)
David Stone Sr. is a member of a Christian militia called the Hutaree. (kpbs.org)

ADJUMANI, Uganda, Jan 20 (UNHCR) - Armed militias looting villages, torching homes, sexually assaulting women and forcibly recruiting young men into their ranks are factors driving a growing number of South Sudanese refugees to seek safety in neighbouring Uganda. (unhcr.org)

However, in contrast to the stereotypes, the vast majority of militia members are married, have children, have steady jobs (some even work for the government), and are not religious. (msnbc.com)
Once recruited, new members are gradually indoctrinated and, according to Ritzmann, subtly taught skills designed to make them part of a capable militia using marginally legal or illegal activities like banner drops, stickering, and painting graffiti on public and private property. (voanews.com)
The number of militia members in Khanabad district alone has increased by 1,000 this year to 3,000 armed men, according to Khanabad district governor Hayatullah Amiri. (rawa.org)
The demands of militia members have become unbearable, according to people who fled fighting and abuses in their homes to the relative safety of Kunduz city. (rawa.org)
Kenneth B. Kimbley Jr., 58, discussed bombing local bridges with an undercover federal agent and made threatening statements toward President Barack Obama, leading investigators last July to seize 20,000 ammunition rounds and several firearms from Kimbley's property, where he and other suspected militia members gathered to construct grenades, according to court documents. (spokesman.com)
A couple of times a month, militia members gather to do everything from compass reading to sharpshooting in the nearby woods. (kpbs.org)
Local militia members had their own opinions about the Hutarees. (kpbs.org)
At 2020's first (and perhaps only) presidential debate, President Trump's plea to his "people" to "go into the polls and watch very carefully" got the attention of voting advocates and militia members alike. (newsweek.com)
A report on voter intimidation from the Brennan Center for Justice states that not only are freelance militia members not allowed at polls, armed federal law enforcement isn't allowed to intimidate voters either: "State and local laws and practices place limits on the role of law enforcement and poll watchers. (newsweek.com)
The 26-minute video, shot from an FBI airplane, shows the events that took place on January 26 when Ammon Bundy, one of the militia leaders, was arrested with several other militia members when they were traveling to a meeting in a town north of the refuge (we've cued it to just before the confrontation). (motherjones.com)
The FBI and the Oregon State Police had set up a roadblock in order to intercept the two vehicles carrying the militia members. (motherjones.com)
The militia group, whose members appeared at the event carrying semiautomatic rifles and wearing other tactical gear, calls itself the New Mexico Civil Guard. (truthout.org)
To highlight the findings of the new report, consumer activist group SumOfUs placed life-sized cutouts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, dressed in full camo gear and standing next to life-sized cutouts of militia members, outside the company's headquarters on Tuesday morning. (vice.com)

Police forces armed the otherwise poorly armed Pyusawhti militias with seized hunting guns and other older weapons. (wikipedia.org)
And the limitations of the badly organised and poorly trained militia were exposed. (peoplesvoice.ca)

In the wake of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état and ensuing Myanmar civil war (2021-present), Burmese security forces have leveraged Pyusawhti militias for reinforcements, military intelligence, and knowledge of local terrain. (wikipedia.org)
They are local militias. (rferl.org)
A key witness, Danilo Bayawan, was cited in the investigation as saying that he attended a meeting called by Jan Corbala, a local leader of a militia force, who discussed the planned killing of Tentorio about a week before the attack. (americamagazine.org)
1809 . Bedfordshire Local Militia [WO 68/565]. (genuki.org.uk)
The comment comes after a local Ukrainian Interior Ministry official accused their opponents of shelling the city some 110 kilometers south of the militia stronghold in Donetsk.The assessment was confirmed by Eduard Basurin, a military official in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, who told RT that the rebel forces are not conducting any offensive on Mariupol at the moment. (rt.com)
Law enforcement officials tell NPR that it may have been this low-grade concern about what the Hutarees were up to that led a member of one local militia to infiltrate Stone's group - just to keep an eye on them. (kpbs.org)
The branches are overseen by both the military and local Communist Party authorities in charge of militia operations nationwide. (com.pk)
During the next few months the South Carolina militia campaigned against the Yamasee and the other local Indian tribes. (motherbedford.com)
The government called on the local militia to surrender its arms and join the national army. (peoplesvoice.ca)

Kiev and the militia are trading blame. (rt.com)

and in case of an insurrection in any state, against the government thereof, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, on application of the legislature of such state, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) to call forth such number of the militia of any other state or states, as may be applied for, or as he may judge sufficient to suppress such insurrection. (constitution.org)
Mujahideen forces now control the interim government in Kabul, but militia forces that once protected the Soviet-backed government of President Najibullah remain armed and have reached an accommodation with the ruling mujahideen coalition. (csmonitor.com)
Instead, the militias have transformed themselves into a potent government institution, political entity and economic player whose strong ties to Iran are likely to complicate U.S. foreign policy in the region. (latimes.com)
The Hashd's rising profile has also worried many Iraqis, who say that the group is amassing a level of power that threatens to undermine the government and remains close with militias that were never absorbed by the military. (latimes.com)
The militias targeted homes in Tripoli with Grad missiles, the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) said in a statement. (turkishpress.com)
When 30 Kalashnikov-toting men came to Mohammad Miakhil's house demanding he donate a large sum of money and three tonnes of wheat to their Afghan government-aligned militia, he knew it was time to leave. (rawa.org)
Hamdullah Danishi, the deputy governor of Kunduz province, said the problem is the informal relationship between the militia and the government, which supplies militias with ammunition and food while they are fighting, but does not pay them. (rawa.org)
If the militia were supported by the government, they would not be forcefully collecting money and abusing people. (rawa.org)
Libya's interim government on Sunday ordered the breakup of all militias that do not fall under its authority, and demanded that those militias pull out of military compounds and public property within 48 hours. (floppingaces.net)
Prosecutors say the trailers were ground zero for a sinister plan to spark a conflict with the government and perhaps inspire other militias to join in the battle. (kpbs.org)
The maritime militia is expanding because of the country's need for it, and because of the desire of the fishermen to engage in national service, protecting our country's interests," said an advisor to the Hainan government who did not want to be named. (com.pk)
When "a particular mission in safeguarding sovereignty", comes up government authorities will coordinate with the fishing militia, the advisor said, asking them to gather information on the activities of foreign vessels at sea. (com.pk)
In 1991, armed militia overthrew the Somali central government. (who.int)
Initially Franco's forces were repulsed in most of the big cities and towns as workers' militias and armed police loyal to the elected government came together in defence of the republic. (peoplesvoice.ca)
The insurrection was instigated by dissident anarchist militias, which had a strong base in Barcelona, encouraged by the Trotskyist-influenced POUM which since the beginning of 1937 had been actively and very publicly campaigning for the overthrow of the Popular Front government in Catalonia. (peoplesvoice.ca)

Also on October 9, the Syrian opposition-affiliated Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), reported on increased activity of the Iran-backed militias adjacent to the Syria-Lebanon border and the border with "the occupied Golan" and also in Damascus and in the Quneitra area. (memri.org)
For the same reason, Hizbullah and the Iran-backed militias changed the deployment of their forces, and moved weapons and military equipment from their storage facilities to different locations. (memri.org)
It also stated that since the Israeli attack on the Deir Al-Zour Governorate "ten days ago," as well as following recent events in the area of the Gaza Strip, the Iran-backed militias in Deir Al-Zour have been on alert. (memri.org)
Ebrahimi says he knows many of those who are now beating up demonstrators in Iran because he used to be one of them, a member of a religious militia called Ansar-e Hezbollah. (cnn.com)
Though many of the militias were funded by neighboring Iran, they became a crucial part of the U.S.-led campaign to defeat the extremists. (latimes.com)

William Todd Wilson - a regional leader of the militia group the Oath Keepers - pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy and other federal charges related to the Capitol riot. (nypost.com)
The order came in response to an upwelling of public anger at the militias after an armed group assaulted a United States diplomatic mission in Benghazi earlier this month, killing Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. (floppingaces.net)
A demonstrator at a peaceful protest in Albuquerque demanding the removal of a statue of a controversial Spanish conquistador was shot by a right-wing militia group member on Monday night. (truthout.org)
Last month, the militia group "Idaho Liberty Dogs" promoted a July 15 rally at the Boise Capitol against vaccine mandates for healthcare workers, with a flyer saying, "WE ALL HAVE A CHOICE! (vice.com)
Recently a militia group attacked the town of Butembo and for a couple of hours there was heavy shooting. (who.int)

During the 2021 Myanmar civil war, the Pyusawhti militias often fought with Tatmadaw troops and helped to occupy contested areas. (wikipedia.org)

One child was killed and three others were injured early Thursday in an attack by militias loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar on civilian settlements in Libya's capital. (turkishpress.com)

The website also stated that the Imam Al-Hussayn Brigade militia transported 60 of its operatives, with mortars, rocket launchers, and anti-tank missiles from the area near Damascus to Tel Al-Za'tar near Daraa, where they reinforced tunnels and fortifications and deployed light and heavy machineguns. (memri.org)

It means that the Ministry of Interior, as well as the Ministry of Defense, must be taken out of the hands of parties and politicians who want their militias to dominate Iraq's security forces. (csmonitor.com)

The militias became increasingly active in 2021, when junta-appointed ward and village tract administrators and offices were attacked throughout the country. (wikipedia.org)
The fishing fleet based in this tiny port town on Hainan island is getting everything from military training and subsidies to even fuel and ice as China creates an increasingly sophisticated fishing militia to sail into the disputed South China Sea. (com.pk)

Arab coalition forces have launched operations against Houthi militia seafarers after they attacked a ship reportedly carrying humanitarian supplies off Yemen's coast. (aljazeera.com)

And be it further enacted , That court martial for the trial of militia be composed of militia officers only. (constitution.org)

The Second Amendment of the US Constitution, as written largely by James Madison and passed by the US Congress, reads: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. (medscape.com)
But as later ratified by the states and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, it reads: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. (medscape.com)

Few boys were armed with aluminium shields and clubs confiscated of militiamen during the day, when we victoriously pushed through militia cordon's towards blockaded Russian White House. (exiledonline.com)

We saw this after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 when it was falsely reported that the bomber was a militia member. (msnbc.com)
A member of a militia led by Mohammad Omar (also known as "Pakhsaparan" or wall crusher) is pictured on April 2015 in Afghanistan's Kunduz city after being driven out of Khanabad district by the Taliban. (rawa.org)
That militia member ended up becoming a cooperating witness in the case. (kpbs.org)

Pyusawhti militias (Burmese: ပျူစောထီးပြည်သူ့စစ်အဖွဲ့များ, also spelt Pyu Saw Htee) are loosely organised networks of pro-military and pro-junta villagers operating in Myanmar. (wikipedia.org)
Attendance at militia events in my area roughly doubled, and most new attendees had military experience. (msnbc.com)

Shortly before he was killed in an 8 August Taliban bombing, a notorious commander named Qadeerak gathered residents of Char Tut village in Khanabad district and told them their monthly dues to the militia would rise from 500 afghanis ($8) to 3,000 ($50), said Najibullah, a villager who attended the meeting. (rawa.org)

These are beasts, these people," says a Hekmatyar spokesman in Peshawar, referring to the militia. (csmonitor.com)
a spokesman for the Donetsk militia headquarters told RIA Novosti. (rt.com)

At least 60 people were killed in a militia attack on Wednesday morning at the Savo displaced persons' in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province. (nypost.com)

Russian FM blasts Kiev's demands regarding south-eastern militias. (derechos.org)
This followed widespread demands to incorporate all militia in a national popular army with a unified command. (peoplesvoice.ca)

They are trying to build a militia undercover," said Alexander Ritzmann, a CEP senior adviser and the author of the new report. (voanews.com)
The authorized militias usually still report to their original commanders, and those commanders may or may not follow orders from the Defense Ministry or act on their own. (floppingaces.net)
This article is the first in a three-part report on Michoacan's Militias produced by the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and InSight Crime. (insightcrime.org)

If the militia don't get out of the city, we will go to Kabul to fight against them," says rebel commander Mohammad Sidiq, whose troops are part of a 15,000-strong mujahideen force in Jalalabad, 57 miles east of Kabul. (csmonitor.com)

State-controlled fishing companies dominate the fleets that go regularly to the Spratlys and are recipients of much of the militia training and subsidies, industry sources said. (com.pk)
The FBI released footage Thursday night of an Oregon State Police trooper shooting LaVoy Finicum, one of the leaders of an armed militia that on earlier in January, took over and occupied several buildings at the Malheur National Wildlife refuge in rural Oregon. (motherjones.com)

After the 1962 Burmese coup d'état, Ne Win would replace them with his own Kakweye (Burmese: ကာကွယ်ရေး) militia units, making the Pyusawhti obsolete. (wikipedia.org)
The Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) - comprised of as many as 40 or 50 distinct militias - were established in mid-2014 to aid in the fight against IS. (amnesty.org)

The London-based Saudi-funded Al-Sharq Al-Awsat daily reported that the Syrian regime forces, Hizbullah, and the militias subordinate to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on the southern front near the Syrian border with the "occupied Golan," were put on alert for fear of an Israeli attack. (memri.org)
This is strengthening the hand of Hekmatyar's Hezb-i-Islami, or Islamic Party, which has violently opposed any compromise with the militia forces. (csmonitor.com)
Unaccountable and unruly militias must be either truly brought into the fold and discipline of the armed forces, or disarmed and demobilized completely. (amnesty.org)

The militias defended their decision to obtain these weapons by indicating they could not fight the Knights Templar without them. (insightcrime.org)

It further alienates the ones who see their militia involvement as a political statement against a two-party system that, in their view, does not adequately represent their interests. (msnbc.com)
That gave the militias the political wherewithal to turn the Hashd from a makeshift volunteer force into an official branch of Iraq's armed services. (latimes.com)
Parliamentarians from Iraq's Fatih political alliance, which is largely composed of PMU militia leaders, condemned the airstrikes as an "insolent" attack on "national sovereignty and Iraq's dignity. (breitbart.com)
Those laws, written in seemingly more genteel times, did not anticipate political actors with names like the Wolverine Watchmen, Pennsylvania Patriots United and the III% Defense Militia. (newsweek.com)

persons (IDPs) began flooding into El Geneina town from surrounding areas, which, like much of West Darfur, Study area were greatly affected by militia activity. (who.int)

As militia founder Hipolito Mora tells it, the leaders began slowly, calling townspeople together and explaining that they were arming themselves against the Knights Templar. (insightcrime.org)

That changed on Saturday night, with the shooting death of a 39-year-old Portland man , Aaron J. Danielson - by a still-unidentified suspect who remains at large - signifying an even darker turn in the conflict, as the city has seemingly become a magnet for armed right-wing militias and left-wing agitators. (yahoo.com)
But the fishing militia also raises the risk of conflict with foreign navies in the strategic waterway through which $5 trillion of trade passes each year, diplomats and naval experts say. (com.pk)

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