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This is a list of notable guerrilla movements. It gives their English name, common acronym, and main country of operation.
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This is a list of notable guerrilla movements. It gives their English name, common acronym, and main country of operation.
Tacuara Nationalist Movement (Movimiento Nacionalista Tacuara – MNT) (1955–1966)
Peronist Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas – FAP) (1968–1971)
People's Revolutionary Army (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo – ERP) (1969–1976)
Montoneros (Movimiento Peronista Montonero – MPM) (1970–1981)
Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) (1965–1987)
Lautaro Youth Movement (MJL) (1982–1994)
Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR) (1983–1997)
Revolutionary Anarchist Front (FAR) (2007–2009)
Weichán Auka Mapu (WAM) (2011–present)
Antagonic Nuclei of the New Urban Guerrilla (NANGU) (2011–present)
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) (1964–2016)
National Liberation Army (ELN) (1964–present)
19th of April Movement (M–19) (1970–1990)
Popular Liberation Army (1967–present)
Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordinating Board (1987–1990s)
Revolutionary Directorate of 13 March Movement (DR-13-M) (1954–1966)
26th of July Movement (M-26-7) (1955–1962)
Second National Front of Escambray (SFNE) (1959–1964)
Brigade 2506 (1960–1962)
Alpha 66 (1961–present)
Farabundo Martí Liberation People's Forces (FPL) (1970–1992)
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) (1980–1992)
National Resistance (RN) (1975–1992)
Party of the Poor (PdlP) (1967–1974)
Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) (1994–present)
Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) (1996–present)
Práxedis G. Guerrero Autonomous Cells of Immediate Revolution (CARI-PGG) (2009–2014)
Paraguayan People's Army (EPP) (2008–present)
Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) (1962–1965)
Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path) (PCP (SL)) (1980–present)
Militarized Communist Party of Peru (MPCP) (1992–present)
Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) (1982–1997)
National Socialist Tercios of New Castile (2004–2009)
Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG)
Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) – Nicaragua 
Tupamaros Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Tupamaros – Uruguay 
Symbionese Liberation Army – United States
Front de libération du Québec – Canada
3 Percenters – United States
National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA) during Cyprus Emergency – Cyprus
2 June Movement (1972–1980)
Irish Citizen Army (1913–1947)
Army Comrades Association (ACA) (1932–1935)
Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) (1974–2009/present)
Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) (1959–2017)
First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups (GRAPO) (1975–2007)
Milícia Catalana (1976–1990s)
Free Land (TL) (1978–1991)
Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front (FRAP) (1973–1978)
Action Directe (AD) – France
Democratic Army of Greece, Communist partisans during the Greek Civil War – Greece
Chechen guerrillas under nominal leadership of Aslan Maskhadov (who is now deceased) – Chechnya 
Red Brigades (BR, later split, BR-PCC and BR-UCC largest factions) – Italy
Guerrilla warfare in the Peninsular War (Spain, Portugal)
Briganti (Italy)
Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party (Congress Poland, particularly active during the Polish events of the 1905 Russian Revolution) Irish Republican Army – Ireland (prior to the establishment of an independent state of Ireland)
Kuva-yi Milliye during Turkish War of Independence – Turkey 
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Macedonia (region)*
Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) – Greece
Freies Deutschland – German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union and Germany (East Prussia, Cologne)
Polish resistance movement in World War II (many of these groups were a part of the Polish Underground State, the large guerrilla movement that initiated the Warsaw Uprising, as well as some other anti-Nazi partisan-warfare-based actions like the Zamość Uprising, the Battle of Osuchy, the Raid on Mittenheide, Operation Tempest, or Operation Heads). Armia Krajowa (Home Army) (Polish)
Uderzeniowe Bataliony Kadrowe 
Bataliony Chłopskie (Polish)
Armia Ludowa (communist-ruled Poland)
Yugoslav Partisans – Yugoslavia 
Chetniks – Yugoslavia 
Werwolf – Germany 
Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) – Ukraine 
Republic of the Rif– Morocco Battle of Annual Abd el-Krim's guerrilla tactics influenced Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and Che Guevara.
Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) – South Africa (armed wing of the African National Congress)
Ambazonia Defence Forces – Southern Cameroons/Cameroon (armed wing of the Ambazonia Governing Council) Ambazonia Restoration Forces (ARF) – Southern Cameroon/Ambazonia (armed wing of the Interim Government of Ambazonia /IG) Southern Cameroons Defence Forces – Southern Cameroons/Cameroon (armed wing of the African People's Liberation Movement) Ambazonia Self-Defence Council – Southern Cameroons/Cameroon (umbrella organization consisting of armed groups loyal to the Interim Government of Ambazonia)
National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) – Angola (nationalist guerrillas who first fought the Portuguese and later Angola's communist led regime)
Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) – Angola (communist guerrillas who fought Portuguese rule and later established a Marxist regime)
National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) – Angola (anti-communist guerrillas backed by the United States and Apartheid South Africa. Angolan Civil War)
Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) – Eritrea 
Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro (POLISARIO) – Western Sahara 
Zimbabwe African People's Union – Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) – Mozambique (anti-communist guerrillas, supported by Rhodesia and South Africa, who fought in the Mozambican Civil War)
South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) – Namibia (an independence movement that fought South African rule during the Apartheid era)
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) – Uganda 
Azanian People's Liberation Army (earlier known as Poqo) – South Africa (armed wing of the PAC)
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) – South Africa 
Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia 
Oromo Liberation Front 
Sudan People's Liberation Army – SPLA. South Sudanese based rebel group that fought against the Islamist and Arab dominated regime in Khartoum during the Second Sudanese Civil War. They now control the independent nation of South Sudan 
Sudan Liberation Movement/Army 
Justice and Equality Movement 
Green Resistance – Gaddafi supporters in Libya post–2011
Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda or FDLR – Successor to ALiR, Hutu extremists
Army for the Liberation of Rwanda or ALiR – Hutu nationalists who fled Rwanda after the 1994 Genocide and took up arms in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo
Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition or SPLM-IO (South Sudanese rebels fighting the SPLM led government since 2013. South Sudanese Civil War 
Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire or the AFDL. These were anti-Mobutu rebels in the former Zaire during the First Congo War 
Somali National Movement (SNM) – Somaliland 
Turkistan Islamic Party (ETIP) – Xinjiang, China 
Northern Alliance – Afghanistan 
Taliban – Afghanistan 
Haqqani Network – Afghanistan 
Free Joseon – North Korea Al-Qaeda – has been based in Afghanistan 
Free Papua Movement – Indonesia
Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) – Philippines 
East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) – Indonesia 
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF, a break away group of the MNLF) – Philippines 
New People's Army (NPA) – Philippines 
Abu Sayyaf – Philippines 
Khmer National Unity Front (KNUF) – Cambodia Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF) – Cambodia 
Lashkar-e-Toiba – based in Pakistan 
United Liberation Front of Asom – India/Bangladesh
Balochistan Liberation Army – Pakistan 
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front – Kashmir 
Jaish-e-Mohammed – Pakistan 
Naxalite Movement – India 
People's Liberation Army, Nepal – Nepal People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (India) — India (Andhra Pradesh)
Chushi Gangdruk – Tibet, China 
Chinese Communist Party – China 
Pathet Lao – Laos 
Katipunan (KKK) – Philippines 
Korean People's Guerrilla Army – Korea 
Khmer Rouge – Cambodia 
National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam (NLF) – Vietnam 
Hukbalahaps – Philippines 
Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) East-Timor
Viet Minh – Vietnam 
Communist Party of Malaya – Malaya/Malaysia 
Free Aceh Movement – Aceh, Indonesia 
Saqqawists – Kingdom of Afghanistan People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (Andhra Pradesh) – India 
Mukti Bahini - East Pakistan (Bangladesh) 
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – Sri Lanka 
Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria (TIP-S) – Syria 
Ansar al-Islam 
Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman 
People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) (1965–present)
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) (1968–present)
Hamas (1987–present) Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) (1987–present)
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1964–1993) Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (1967–present)
