Serb Volunteer Guard (Arkan's Tigers)
Insurgency Overview The Serb Volunteer Guard (Srpska Dobrovoljačka Garda), better known as Arkan’s Tigers was a Serbian paramilitary unit...
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Liam Coyle
- Jun 26
Freedom of Russia Legion (FRL)
Insurgency Overview The Freedom of Russia Legion (FRL Russian: Легион «Свобода России») is a pro-Ukrainian paramilitary consisting of...
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Daniel Hall
- Jun 12
Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK)
Insurgency Overview The Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) is an armed, far-right paramilitary organization fighting against the Russian...
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Ethan Rooney
- May 31
Ulster Defence Association (UDA)
Insurgency Overview The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is a loyalist paramilitary group which is based in Northern Ireland. The group...
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Kevin Clarke
- May 31
Real Ulster Freedom Fighters (Real UFF)
The Real Ulster Freedom Fighters or Real UFF are a loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland. Believed to be formed from former
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Daniel Hall
- May 14
Anarcho-Communist Combat Organisation (BOAK)
Insurgency Overview The Anarcho-Communist Combat Organization (BOAK) is a group of far-left activists currently engaged in anti-war...
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Bianca Bridger
- May 14
Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire Nuclei (CCF)
Insurgency Overview The Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire Nuclei (CCF), known in Greece as Synomosía Pyrínon tis Fotiás (Συνωμοσία Πυρήνων...
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Daniel Hall
- Apr 21
Ajnad al-Kavkaz
Insurgency Overview Exiled from their homeland following their defeat in the Second Chechen War in 2009, the Jihadist fighters of Ajnad...
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Daniel Hall
- Mar 21
Association of Security Forces of Belarus (BYPOL)
Insurgency Overview Following the contentious 2020 Presidential election in Belarus, which saw incumbent Alexander Lukashenko claim...
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Ethan Rooney
- Mar 7
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C)
Insurgency Overview The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) is a militant Marxist group which is based in Turkey and...
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Will Reaume
- Mar 3
Grey Wolves
Insurgency Overview Formed in 1968 as a paramilitary wing of the Turkish Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the Grey Wolves are a fascist...
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Liam Coyle
- Feb 28
Sheikh Mansur Battalion (SMB)
Insurgency Overview The Sheikh Mansur Battalion (SMB) is a Chechnian volunteer peacekeeping unit fighting for Ukraine since the start of...
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Orlando Miceli
- Feb 28
National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC)
Introduction & Overview The FLNC (Fronte di Liberazione Naziunale Corsu, Corsican National Liberation Front) was founded in 1976 as a...
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Bianca Bridger
- Feb 13
Azov Regiment
Insurgency Overview The Azov Regiment ‘Полк Азов’ (formally Battalion) is a Special Purpose Regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard....
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Mikkel Kristensen
- Feb 6
Generation Identity (GI)
Introduction & Overview Generation Identity (GI) is a far-right pan-European nationalist youth movement, part of the wider Identitarian...
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Kevin Clarke
- Jan 25
New Irish Republican Army (New IRA)
Insurgency Overview The New Irish Republican Army (New IRA), or simply Irish Republican Army in the group's own publications, is an Irish...
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Daniele Molteni
- Jan 15
Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI)
Note: A different logo is usually found on the internet, but after the merger with the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, the FAI decided to...
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Joseph Collins
- Jan 8
Islamic State - Caucasus Province (IS-CP)
Insurgency Overview The Islamic State - Caucasus Province (IS-CP) was formed in 2015 when members of the Caucasus Emirate (a Jihadist...
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Ellie Newis
- Dec 30, 2022
Patriotic Alternative
Group Overview Patriotic Alternative is a far-right, neo-Nazi group founded in 2019 and focused on what they label as the “demographic...
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Mikkel Kristensen
- Dec 28, 2022
Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM)
Insurgency overview The Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) is a pan-Scandinavian neo-Nazi movement heavily rooted in Scandinavian far-right...
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