This is a list of important guerrilla movements. It gives their English name, common acronym, and main country of operation. Many groups have been left off (see external link (http://freelebanon.org/articles/a167.htm) for list of more groups), and some may be better classified as terrorists than guerrillas.
North America
- Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front or FMLN El Salvador
- Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity or URNG
- Quantrill's Raiders led by William Quantrill - United States
- Sandinista National Liberation Front - Nicaragua
- Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Zapatistas or EZLN -Chiapas, Mexico
South America
- Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC - Colombia
- ELN - Colombia
- Shining Path - Peru
- Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement or MRTA - Peru
- Surinamese Liberation Army - Suriname
- Contras - Nicaragua (1980s)
- Sandinistas - Nicaragua (late 1970s: guerrilla movement, 1980s: in government)
Europe
Historic
- Metsavaennad "forest brethren" - Estonia (World War II)
- World War II Resistance movements in various countries, some sponsored by the United Kingdom government, other by Soviet Union;
- 'Old' IRA - Ireland (prior to the establishment of an independent state of Ireland)
- Chetniks - Yugoslavia
- Baader-Meinhof Gang - West Germany
Africa
- African National Congress (ANC) - South Africa (political wing of MK)
- Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) - South Africa (armed wing of ANC)
- Mau Mau - Kenya
- UNITA - Angola
- Eritrean Liberation Front or ELF - Eritrea
- Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy or LURD - Liberia
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Sakiet el Hamra and Rio de Oro or Polisario - Western Sahara or Morocco
- Zimbabwe African People's Union - Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
- Mozambican National Resistance or RENAMO - Mozambique
- South-West Africa People's Organization or SWAPO - Namibia
Asia
- Northern Alliance - Afghanistan
- Taliban -- Afghanistan
- Khmer Rouge - Cambodia
- Mujahedin - (generic grouping) Afghanistan, Middle East
- Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) East-Timor
- Pathet Lao - Laos
- Moro Islamic Liberation Front - Philippines
- Hukbalahaps - Philippines
- New People's Army - Philippines
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) - Sri Lanka
Historic
Middle East
- Irgun - Israel
- Haganah- Israel
- Lehi (group)
- Black September
- PLO
- Al Aqsa Matyrs Brigades
- Hamas
- Islamic Jihad
- Hezbollah
- Iraqi resistance
- Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arab Gulf
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