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Our Database is an information hub on global political movements and insurgencies. Our writers are entirely neutral on all issues covered, and this archive does not in any way seek to condone violence or extremism. The journalistic objective of The Modern Insurgent is to create a purely informative database of scholarly articles and analyses of political movements.
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...
Walter Niehoff
Oct 16, 2023
Freedom of Russia Legion (FRL)
Insurgency Overview The Freedom of Russia Legion (FRL Russian: Легион «Свобода России») is a pro-Ukrainian paramilitary consisting of...
Liam Coyle
Jun 26, 2023
Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK)
Insurgency Overview The Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) is an armed, far-right paramilitary organization fighting against the Russian...
Daniel Hall
Jun 12, 2023
Ulster Defence Association (UDA)
Insurgency Overview The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is a loyalist paramilitary group which is based in Northern Ireland. The group...
Ethan Rooney
May 31, 2023
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
Kevin Clarke
May 31, 2023
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...
Daniel Hall
May 14, 2023
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...
Bianca Bridger
May 14, 2023
Ajnad al-Kavkaz
Insurgency Overview Exiled from their homeland following their defeat in the Second Chechen War in 2009, the Jihadist fighters of Ajnad...
Daniel Hall
Apr 21, 2023
Association of Security Forces of Belarus (BYPOL)
Insurgency Overview Following the contentious 2020 Presidential election in Belarus, which saw incumbent Alexander Lukashenko claim...
Daniel Hall
Mar 21, 2023
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...
Ethan Rooney
Mar 7, 2023
Grey Wolves
Insurgency Overview Formed in 1968 as a paramilitary wing of the Turkish Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the Grey Wolves are a fascist...
Will Reaume
Mar 3, 2023
Sheikh Mansur Battalion (SMB)
Insurgency Overview The Sheikh Mansur Battalion (SMB) is a Chechnian volunteer peacekeeping unit fighting for Ukraine since the start of...
Liam Coyle
Feb 28, 2023
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...
Orlando Miceli
Feb 28, 2023
Azov Regiment
Insurgency Overview The Azov Regiment ‘Полк Азов’ (formally Battalion) is a Special Purpose Regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard....
Bianca Bridger
Feb 13, 2023
Generation Identity (GI)
Introduction & Overview Generation Identity (GI) is a far-right pan-European nationalist youth movement, part of the wider Identitarian...
Mikkel Kristensen
Feb 6, 2023
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...
Kevin Clarke
Jan 25, 2023
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...
Daniele Molteni
Jan 15, 2023
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...
Joseph Collins
Jan 8, 2023
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...
Ellie Newis
Dec 30, 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...
Mikkel Kristensen
Dec 28, 2022
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