List of guerrilla movements
This is a list of notable guerrilla movements. It gives their English name, common acronym, and main country of operation.
Latin America
- Brigade 2506 – Cuba
- Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity
- Sandinista National Liberation Front – Nicaragua
- Zapatista Army of National Liberation or Zapatistas – Chiapas, Mexico
- Jungle Commando – Suriname
- Contras – Nicaragua
- 26th of July Movement – Cuba
- Morazanist Patriotic Front – Honduras
- Bolivarian Forces of Liberation – Venezuela
- Tupamaros Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Tupamaros – Uruguay
Argentina
- People's Revolutionary Army – Argentina
- Montoneros – Argentina
- Tacuara Nationalist Movement – Argentina
- Peronist Armed Forces – Argentina
Bolivia
- Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation
- Ñancahuazú Guerrilla
- Néstor Paz Zamora Commission
- Túpac Katari Guerrilla Army
Chile
- Lautaro Youth Movement
- Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front
- Revolutionary Left Movement
Colombia
- Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
- National Liberation Army
- 19th of April Movement
- Guevarista Revolutionary Army
- Popular Liberation Army
- Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordinating Board
- Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame
- Ernesto Rojas Commandos
- Indigenous Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Pacific
El Salvador
- Communist Party of El Salvador
- Farabundo Martí Liberation People's Forces
- Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
- National Resistance
- People's Revolutionary Army
Mexico
- Party of the Poor
- Popular Revolutionary Army
- People's Guerrilla Group
- Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Paraguay
- Paraguayan People's Army
- United National Liberation Front
Peru
- Communist Party of Peru
- National Liberation Army
- Revolutionary Left Movement
- Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
North America
- Atomwaffen Division – Anti-government neo-Nazi terrorist group
- Black Liberation Army – United States
- Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance – Guadeloupe
- Earth Liberation Front – United States
- Nation of Islam's paramilitary security force – United States
- MEChA's Brown Berets – United States – "Border War"
- Port7Alliance – United States
- 3 Percenters – United States
- The Order – white nationalist revolutionary organization active in the United States between September 1983 and December 1984.
- Symbionese Liberation Army – United States
- Weather Underground – United States
- Black Panther Party – United States
- Quantrill's Raiders led by William Quantrill – United States
- Front de libération du Québec – Canada
- Direct Action – Canada
Europe
- National Liberation Army – North Macedonia
- Albanian National Army – North Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece
- Kosovo Liberation Army – Semi-recognised country of Kosovo
- Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac – Serbia
- Catalan Red Liberation Army – Spain
- Elisabeth Van Dyck Commando – France
- Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist – Turkey
- Red Brigades – Italy
- Chechen guerrillas under nominal leadership of Aslan Maskhadov – Chechnya
Ireland
- Continuity Irish Republican Army
- Irish National Liberation Army
- Provisional Irish Republican Army
- Real Irish Republican Army
- Official Irish Republican Army
- Irish People's Liberation Organisation
- Oglaigh na hEireann
Spain
- Basque Fatherland and Liberty
- First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups
- Free Land
- Guerrilla Army of the Free Galician People
- Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front
- Revolutionary Armed Struggle
- Armia Krajowa
- Bataliony Chłopskie
- Cursed soldiers
- Leśni
- Silent Unseen
- Battalion Zośka
- Uderzeniowe Bataliony Kadrowe
- National Armed Forces
- Anti-Soviet partisans
- Armia Ludowa
- Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party
- Lisowczycy
- Anti-communist resistance in Poland
- Henryk Dobrzański
- Polish resistance movement in World War II.
- Kuva-yi Milliye during Turkish War of Independence – Turkey
- Forest Brothers – Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania
- World War II Resistance movements in various countries sponsored by the United Kingdom and other Western governments;
- Irish Republican Army – Ireland
- Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Macedonia
- Chetniks – Yugoslavia
- Yugoslav Partisans – Yugoslavia
- Red Brigades – Italy
- Action Directe – France
- Snapphane Movement – Sweden, pro-Danish partisans that fought against the Swedes in the 17th century.
- Soviet government-organized Soviet partisans in the Axis-occupied territories during World War II
- Bielski partisans
- Parczew partisans
- Greek People's Liberation Army – Greece
- Ukrainian Insurgent Army – Ukraine
- Red Army Faction – Western Germany, known also as Baader-Meinhof Gang
- Democratic Army of Greece, Communist partisans during the Greek Civil War – Greece
- National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters during Cyprus Emergency – Cyprus
- National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters-B during Cypriot intercommunal violence and Turkish invasion of Cyprus – Cyprus
- Turkish Resistance Organisation during Cypriot intercommunal violence and Turkish invasion of Cyprus – Cyprus
Africa
- Abdelkrim al-Khattabi – Morocco Battle of Annual Abd el-Krim's guerrilla tactics influenced Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, and Che Guevara.
- Umkhonto we Sizwe – South Africa
- Ambazonia Defence Forces - Southern Cameroons/Cameroon
- Southern Cameroons Defence Forces - Southern Cameroons/Cameroon
- Ambazonia Self-Defence Council - Southern Cameroons/Cameroon
- Mau Mau – Kenya
- National Liberation Front of Angola – Angola
- Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola – Angola
- National Union for the Total Independence of Angola – Angola
- Eritrean Liberation Front – Eritrea
- Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy – Liberia
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro – Western Sahara
- Zimbabwe African People's Union – Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
- Mozambican Liberation Front – Mozambique
- Mozambican National Resistance – Mozambique
- South-West Africa People's Organization – Namibia
- Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta – Nigeria
- Lesotho Liberation Army – Lesotho
- Lord's Resistance Army – Uganda
- Uganda People's Democratic Army – Uganda
- National Resistance Army – Uganda
- Azanian People's Liberation Army – South Africa
- Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging – 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
- Janjaweed
- Niger Movement for Justice
- 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 - Somaliland
Asia
- National Democratic Front of Bodoland – India
- Northern Alliance – Afghanistan
- Taliban – Afghanistan
- Haqqani Network – Afghanistan
- Jundallah – Iran/Pakistan
- Al-Qaeda – has been based in Afghanistan
- Khmer Rouge – Cambodia
- Mujahedin – Afghanistan, Middle East
- People's Mujahedin of Iran
- Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor East-Timor
- Pathet Lao – Laos
- Moro National Liberation Front – Philippines
- Moro Islamic Liberation Front – Philippines
- Hukbalahaps – Philippines
- New People's Army – Philippines
- Abu Sayyaf – Philippines
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam – Sri Lanka
- Lashkar-e-Toiba – based in Pakistan
- United Liberation Front of Asom – India/Bangladesh
- Balochistan Liberation Army – Pakistan
- Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front – Kashmir
- Hizbul Mujahideen – Kashmir
- Jaish-e-Mohammed – Pakistan
- Naxalite Movement – India
- People's Liberation Army, Nepal – Nepal
- Chushi Gangdruk – Tibet, China
- Communist Party of China – China
- Katipunan – Philippines
- Righteous army - Korea
- National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam – Vietnam
- Viet Minh – Vietnam
- Communist Party of Malaya – Malaya/Malaysia
- Shivaji – India
- Free Aceh Movement – Aceh, Indonesia
- Saqqawists – Kingdom of Afghanistan
Middle East
- Mesopotamia National Council
- People's Defence Forces
- Kurdistan Communities Union – Greater Kurdistan
- Kurdistan Democratic Party/North – Turkey
- Eastern Kurdistan Units
- Women's Defence Forces
- Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran
- Kurdistan Freedom Party
- Revolutionary Party of Kurdistan – Turkey
- Communist Party of Kurdistan
- National Liberation Front of Kurdistan
- People's Protection Units
- Women's Protection Units
- Euphrates Volcano
- Jabhat al-Akrad
- United Freedom Forces
- Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia – Lebanon, Armenia and the USA
- Irgun
- Lehi
- Black September
- Ansar al-Islam
- Popular Resistance Committees
- Hezbollah – Lebanon
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman
- Front for the Liberation of the Golan – Syria
Iran
- Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas
- Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan
- Kurdistan Free Life Party
- People's Mujahedin of Iran
- Union of Iranian Communists
Palestine
- Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
- Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
- Hamas
- Palestinian Islamic Jihad
- Palestine Liberation Organization
- Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Turkey
- Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist
- Communist Party of Kurdistan
- Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist
- Kurdistan Freedom Hawks
- Kurdistan Workers' Party
- Maoist Communist Party
- Marxist–Leninist Armed Propaganda Unit
- Marxist–Leninist Communist Party
- Revolutionary Headquarter
- Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front
- Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement
- People's Liberation Army of Turkey
- People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey
- Dawronoye
Oceania
- Bougainville Revolutionary Army