National militia By 1920 the army of Norway was a national militia.

60 Armenian militia died during the first conflict in a report.

It was established in 2011 replacing the militsiya (militia), the former police service.

Soon the Senate asked General Mannerheim to form a new Finnish army on the basis on the White Guard militia.

Boko Haram is a militant Islamist group most infamous for kidnapping young girls, which led to the worldwide Twitter campaign BringBackOurGirls.

Raids The dormitories of the University of Tehran, the largest general university in the Islamic Republic of Iran, were raided by Basij militiamen.

After all, desertification and deforestation helped fuel the rise, two decades earlier, of the Maoist guerilla group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) in Peru.

Our Iranian problem is actually a problem with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, or in Persian Pasdaran) and allied institutions like the Basij militia.

(b) To comply with all the demands of the Security Council, in particular by disarming the Janjaweed militia and by cooperating fully in the implementation of resolution 1593 (2005)

(b) To comply with all the demands of the Security Council, in particular by disarming the Janjaweed militia and by cooperating fully in the implementation of resolution 1593 (2005)

In February, Burma s government and the United Nationalities Federal Council, an alliance of 11 ethnic militias, conducted official peace talks.

(b) To comply with all the demands of the Security Council, in particular by disarming the Janjaweed militia and by cooperating fully in the implementation of Council resolution 1593 (2005)

However, there were enough men to form a militia, which would make up part of the city's defense force.

Instead of armies, peacekeepers often have to deal with militia groups and private security forces in which the chains of command are harder to track.

First, the Commission found that large scale war crimes and crimes against humanity had been committed by Sudanese Government officials and by the Janjaweed militia.

On 30 March, ceasefire was negotiated between the Council of Elders of Libya, Sabha local council and members of the Misrata militia in the southern city.

In January 2005, dozens of extrajudicial executions of Hema men and children by militia of the Front de nationalistes intégrationnistes (FNI) were reported.

In the Eastern Jebel Marra area (Southern Darfur), nomadic tribal militia are present in large numbers and continue to patrol the abandoned villages of Abu Jabra and Tege.

For example, in Rubkona, about 200 people, many under 18 years old, were forcibly recruited into a militia group in September.

Western and Iranian support for Nouri al Maliki s government, which is controlled by Iran s Basij militia, must be withdrawn, enabling the Iraqi people to determine freely their own destiny.

Another blogger, Snotes, said it was Basij paramilitary students attacked the embassy, seized documents from the old Fox , and burne the British flag.

During the ensuing exchange of fire, between 50 and 60 FNI militia members were killed and two MONUC soldiers from Pakistan were injured.

Militarily, it has nipped in the bud any potential armed militia in West Beirut that could hinder its movement beyond the southern suburbs.

In a war that lasted barely a month, 250,000 Chinese front line soldiers were thrashed by 100,000 Vietnamese border militia troops.

She just told me that they haven't seen any army troops in over an hour, just militiamen from Amal and Mostaqbal (Future Movement) carrying guns and RPG launchers.

A document from December 2006, as defined by The Australian , describes a plan by a Shia militia commander to kidnap US soldiers in Baghdad in late 2006 or early 2007.

But this is the view of only a small minority of leaders, notably former Prime Minister Abu Mazin and Muhammad Dahlan, who heads his own militia in the Gaza Strip.

Sadr s militia threatens to quickly become Iraq s answer to Hezbollah a well armed, politically connected private army with its own foreign policy.

Just a week before the indictment, seven African Union and UN peacekeepers were killed and 22 injured during an ambush by well armed militiamen.

Known as the Godfather of the Golden Triangle , Naw Kham led the 100 strong Hawngleuk Militia in the Shan State border town of Tachilek in Myanmar which engaged in drug trafficking, kidnapping and hijacking.

Both the mobile militia and the stationary militia were brought up to strength only in times of mobilization or during periods allotted for refresher training, usually three weeks in June.

The International Criminal Court in The Hague, which is investigating the crimes in eastern Congo, has only this week indicted the first Congolese militia commander for gender based crimes.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the internal displacement of populations continues, especially in Katanga, where an offensive attack by the Government army is under way to dislodge the Mai Mai from certain areas.

On 30 May 2005, TFG militia forces of Shatiguduud and Madobe attacked militia forces of the opposition at Baidoa, under the command of Mohamed Ibrahim Habsade.

Hezbollah has an armed militia that is far more effective than Lebanon s national army, and has openly rejected UN Security Council resolutions asking for its disarmament.

More recently, Meles coordinated efforts with Kenya to stage limited strikes against the al Shabaab militia, which has waged an unrelenting war to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy.

And Kouchner himself, to the cynical amusement of the French press, has retreated radically from his insistence on an immediate intervention to protect refugees and internally displaced people in Darfur from further slaughter by the Sudanese government backed Janjawid militia.

Only a few days ago, on 7 December, in the region of western Darfur, armed militia forces attacked the town of Kongo Harasa and destroyed all water wells built by humanitarian workers.

Under Khamenei s leadership, an unholy trinity of nouveau riche Revolutionary Guardsmen, hard line clergymen, and indoctrinated Basij militiamen increasingly wield power.

For example, in September 2004, an incident occurred where Congolese militia abducted a MONUC peacekeeper who was allegedly in civilian attire among the local population in an area outside the designated secure zone.

On this day in 1982, Israeli backed Lebanese Phalangist (Arabic al Kataeb) militiamen entered the Sabra and Chatila Palestinian refugee camps in West Beirut, and slaughtered at will. Age or gender were never a consideration, as the elderly, women, children and even toddlers became easy prey. Courtesy of Mondoweiss

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), a youth led militia in the Igbo region that campaigns for the peaceful dissolution of Nigeria, emerged in late 1999, shortly after Obasanjo, an ethnic Yoruba, took office.

In fact, the persistence, intensity, and frequency of protests exemplified in September, when local militia in Benghazi killed US Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens demonstrate the role that the culture and psychology of crowds are playing in determining the Arab world s trajectory.

Closely allied with Syria is Hezbollah, which presides over a virtually autonomous mini state in south Lebanon. Hezbollah has an armed militia that is far more effective than Lebanon s national army, and has openly rejected UN Security Council resolutions asking for its disarmament.

To underline his message, Sadr sent his men to attack the Badr militia, succeeding in Baghdad, where the Mahdis are numerous, but failing in Najaf, where Sadr is hated after the destruction caused last year until his men were massacred by the Americans.