• The Union of Resistance Forces (French: Union des forces de la résistance, Arabic: إتحاد قوات المقاومة; abbreviated UFR) is an alliance of Chadian rebel...
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  • Middle East. It most notably includes the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, the Popular Mobilization Forces, the Syrian government, Lebanese Hezbollah, and the...
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    part of the anti-Axis resistance during World War II. It consisted of armed and unarmed actions of resistance groups against the Wehrmacht forces in Bulgaria...
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  • resistance movements on both sides Bushwhackers were Confederate guerrillas who engaged in raids, robberies, and massacres against the Union forces and...
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    Armed Forces, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the...
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  • the Renewal Forces), a political party in Burkina Faso Ultimate Fighting Revolution, a Martial arts tournament Union of Resistance Forces, rebel group...
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  • During World War II, resistance movements operated in German-occupied Europe by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation to propaganda, hiding...
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    Timane Erdimi (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    various rebel groups, including the RFC, agreed to unite as the Union of Resistance Forces on January 19, 2009. Erdimi said that this move would "allow us...
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    The French Resistance (French: La Résistance) was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France...
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    forces. The most well-known act of resistance was the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. Resistance culminated in the so-called Prague uprising of May...
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    northern part of the country. The main body of coalition forces continued their drive into the heart of Iraq and met with little resistance. Most of the Iraqi...
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    Chin resistance in mid June 2024. In late June 2024 the Three Brotherhood Alliance restarted Operation 1027 after claiming that Tatmadaw forces had broken...
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    The Greek resistance (Greek: Εθνική Αντίσταση, romanized: Ethnikí Antístasi "National Resistance") involved armed and unarmed groups from across the political...
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  • Jewish resistance movement that led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 Żydowski Związek Walki (ZZW, the Jewish Fighting Union), Jewish resistance movement...
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  • partisans were members of resistance movements that fought a guerrilla war against Axis forces during World War II in the Soviet Union, the previously Soviet-occupied...
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    Lithuania was occupied twice by the Soviet Union (1940–1941; post-1944) and once by Nazi Germany (1941–1944). Resistance took many forms. During the occupations...
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    membership in the Free French forces and for participation in the metropolitan clandestine Resistance during the German occupation of France in World War II...
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    many defected to the Allies or the anti-Fascist resistance forces, and after 1943, the Soviet Union made attempts to launch a guerrilla warfare in Germany...
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    The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (an Arabic acronym from Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah)...
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    Insurgency in Chad (2016–present) (category Civil wars of the 21st century)
    On 3–6 February, the French Air Force conducted airstrikes on Union of Resistance Forces (UFR) troops who had launched a raid into Chad. On 9 February...
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    Union of Armed Struggle (Związek Walki Zbrojnej or ZWZ, itself created in 1939) and would eventually incorporate most other Polish armed resistance groups...
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    مجاهدین افغان) were Islamist resistance groups that fought against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War...
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    The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is a Christian extremist organization operating in Central Africa and East Africa. Its origins were in the Ugandan insurgency...
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    are part of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) and work with the People's Defence Forces (HPG) of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Parts of the YBŞ...
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  • The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States. The armed forces consist of six service branches: the Army, Marine Corps,...
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    Israel–Hamas war, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. His killing was the result of a routine patrol and a chance encounter...
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    a Hero of the Soviet Union was also a resistance fighter, Zinaida Portnova.[citation needed] After the war, most women left the armed forces. Those that...
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    The National Union of Popular Forces (Arabic: الاتحاد الوطني للقوات الشعبية; French: Union Nationale des Forces Populaires, UNFP) was founded in 1959 in...
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    The Cretan resistance (Greek: Κρητική Αντίσταση, Kritiki Antistasi) was a resistance movement against the occupying forces of Nazi Germany and Fascist...
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    With an estimated 50–75 members, the Resistance Committee was integrated into the Territorial Defense Forces (TDF). Their fighters were initially concentrated...
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