List of active rebel groups

Template:Short description Template:EngvarB This is a list of active rebel groups around the world. A "rebel group" is defined here as a polity that uses armed conflict in opposition to established government (or governments) for reasons such as to seek political change or to establish, maintain, or to gain independence.

Rebel groups by state

Rebel groups are listed by the states within which they operate.

Within state	Rebel group	Subgroups / Affiliates	Conflict	Year Established	Leader	References
Multinational: Template:DRC	File:Flag of the Allied Democratic Forces.svg Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)	None	Allied Democratic Forces insurgency Kivu conflict Ituri conflict	1996	Musa Baluku
Multinational:	Al-Qaeda	Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb Al-Shabaab Ansar al-Sharia (Yemen) Ansaru Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin Kurdistan Brigades Salafia Jihadia United Army For Palestine Freedom	Afghanistan conflict Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen Yemeni Civil War Insurgency in the Maghreb Northern Mali conflict Insurgency in Balochistan War in North-West Pakistan Somali Civil War Insurgency in Egypt Libyan Crisis (2011–present)	1988	Saif al-Adel
Multinational:	Template:Country data Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State	Allied Democratic Forces (parts of) Azerbaijan Province Caucasus Province Central Africa Province City of Monotheism and Monotheists (MTM) Hind Province Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Islamic State in Somalia Janood-ul-Khalifa-e-Hind Katiba al-Bittar al-Libi Khorasan Province Pakistan Province Sahel Province Sons of the Call for Tawhid and Jihad Turkey Province West Africa Province Yemen Province	Islamic State–Taliban conflict Yemeni Civil War Insurgency in the Maghreb Northern Mali conflict War in North-West Pakistan Somali Civil War Syrian Civil War Insurgency in Egypt Turkey–ISIL conflict ISIL insurgency in the Philippines Iraqi insurgency (2017–present) Libyan Crisis (2011–present) Boko Haram insurgency Gaza–Israel conflict Kivu conflict Allied Democratic Forces insurgency Insurgency in Cabo Delgado Ituri conflict Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus	1999	Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi
Multinational:	Jama'at al-Jihad al-Islami	None	Afghanistan conflict War in North-West Pakistan Syrian Civil War	2002
Multinational: Template:SSD	File:Flag red yellow 5x3.svg Lord's Resistance Army	None	Lord's Resistance Army insurgency Central African Republic Civil War	1987	Joseph Kony
	Afghanistan Freedom Front	None	Afghanistan conflict	2022
	File:Flag of Afghanistan (1992–2001).svg National Resistance Front of Afghanistan	None		2021	Ahmad Massoud
	Republic of Cabinda	FLEC	Cabinda War	1975	António Bento Bembe
	Ansar ul Islam	None	Insurgency in the Maghreb	2016	Abdoul Salam Dicko
	Template:Country data Ambazonia	List of Ambazonian militant groups	Anglophone Crisis	2017	Samuel Ikome Sako
	Template:Flagicon Coalition of Patriots for Change	Anti-balaka Central African Patriotic Movement Popular Front for the Rebirth of Central African Republic Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation Union for Peace in the Central African Republic	Central African Republic Civil War	2020	François Bozizé (alleged)
	File:Logo de la CAM.svg Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco	Lafkenche Mapuche Resistance	Mapuche conflict	1998	Héctor Llaitul
	File:Flag of the Mapuches (1992).svg Weichán Auka Mapu	None		2011	Collective leadership
	East Turkestan Islamic Movement	None	Xinjiang conflict	1988	Abdullah Mansour
	File:Flag of The AGC.png Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia	None		2001	Dario Antonio Úsuga
	National Liberation Army (ELN)	None		1964	Antonio Garcia
	Popular Liberation Army (EPL)	None		1967
	FARC dissidents	None		2016	Gentil "Cabuyo" Duarte
	Bundu dia Kongo (BDK)	None	Katanga insurgency Ituri conflict Kivu conflict Kamwina Nsapu rebellion	1986	Ne Muanda Nsemi
	CODECO	None		1970s
	Coordination for a Referendum on Self-determination for Katanga (CORAK)	None
	Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR)	None		2000
	Kamwina Nsapu militia	None
	Mai-Mai	None		1960s
	Mai Mai Kata Katanga	None		2011
	Mai Mai Gédéon	None
	Mai Mai Sheka	None
	Mai-Mai Simba	None
	Mai Mai Yakutumba	None
	National Coalition of the People for the Sovereignty of Congo	None		2017	William Yakutumba
	Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI)	None		2005	Peter Karim Udaga
	Nyatura	None
	Patriotic Resistance Front of Ituri (FRPI)	None		2002	Cobra Matata
	Popular Front for Justice in the Congo (FPJC)	None		2008	David Mbadu
	Progressive Katanga Congress (CPK)	None
	Raia Mutomboki	None		2005	Isaac Chirambiza
	RUD-Urunana	None
	Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC)	None		2001	Bosco Ntaganda
	March 23 Movement (M23)	None		2012	Bertrand Bisimwa
	Al Furqan Brigades	None	Insurgency in Egypt	2013
	Hasm Movement	None		2015
	File:Flag of Ethiopia (Blank).svg Fano	Wollo Fano Gojjam Fano Gondar Fano Shewa Fano Amhara People's Army	War in Amhara	2018
	File:Flag of the Oromo Liberation Front.svg Oromo Liberation Army		Oromo conflict	2020	Kumsa Diriba
	Tigray People's Liberation Front	Tigray Defense Forces	Tigray War	1975	Debretsion Gebremichael
	Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV)	None		1975
	Black Star	None
	Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei	None		2008
	Hizbul Mujahideen	Dukhtaran-e-Milat	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir	1989	Sayeed Salahudeen
	Jaish-e-Mohammed	• Lashkar-e-Mustafa • Kashmir Tigers		2000	Masood Azhar
	Lashkar-e-Taiba	The Resistance Front		1986	Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
	United Jihad Council	Hizbul Mujahideen Jaish-e-Mohammed Lashkar-e-Taiba		1994
	National Socialist Council of Nagaland	None	Insurgency in Northeast India	1980	Thuingaleng Muivah
	File:Ulfa logo.svg United Liberation Front of Asom	None		1979
	Communist Party of India (Maoist)	None	Naxalite–Maoist insurgency	2004	Nambala Keshava Rao
	Maoist Communist Party of Manipur	None		2011
	International Sikh Youth Federation	None		1987	Lakhbir Singh Rode
	Khalistan Zindabad Force	None		1988	Ranjit Singh Neeta
	Students' Islamic Movement of India	None		1977
	File:Morning Star flag.svg Free Papua Movement	None	Papua conflict	1963	Mathias Wenda
	Jamaah Ansharusy Syariah (JAS)	None
	South Moluccas	None		1950
	Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan	None	Western Iran clashes	1945	Mustafa Hijri
	Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan	None		2000	Abdullah Mohtadi
	Kurdistan Freedom Party	None		1991	Hussein Yazdanpanah
	Kurdistan Free Life Party	None	Western Iran clashes Iran–PJAK conflict	2004	Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi
	Jaysh al-Adl	None	Insurgency in Balochistan	2012	Salahuddin Farooqui
	Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz	None	Khuzestan conflict	2005	Habib Jabor / Saddam Hattem
	Communist Party of Iran (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)	None		2001
	People's Mujahedin of Iran	None		1965	Maryam Rajavi
	Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order	None	Insurgency in Iraq	2006	Salah Al-Mukhtar
	Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)	None	Dissident Irish republican campaign	1994	Continuity Army Council
	New Irish Republican Army	None		2012	Army Council
	Informal Anarchist Federation	None		2003
	Green Resistance	None	Libyan Crisis (2011–present)	2014
	Rafallah al-Sahati Brigade	None
	Toubou Front for the Salvation of Libya	None		2007	Issa Abdel Majid Mansur
	Template:Flagicon Zintan Brigades	None		2011	Kalifah Shahub
	Ansar al-Sharia	None	Mali War	2012
	Template:Flagicon National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad	None		2011	Bilal Ag Acherif
	Popular Revolutionary Army	None		1996	Edmundo Reyes
	Zapatista Army of National Liberation	None	Chiapas conflict	1983
	Al-Shabaab	None	Insurgency in Cabo Delgado	2015
	All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF)	None	Internal conflict in Myanmar	1988	Than Khae
	DKBA-5	None		2010	Saw Mo Shay
	Shan State Army - South (SSA-S)	None		1996	Yawd Serk
	United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC)	Arakan Army (AA) Arakan Liberation Army (ALA/ALP) Chin National Front (CNF) Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO/KIA) Karen National Union (KNU) Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) Lahu Democratic Union (LDU) New Mon State Party (NMSP) Pa-O National Liberation Army (PNLA) Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF) Shan State Army - North (SSA-N/SSPP) Wa National Organisation (WNO)		2011	Nai Hong Sar
	United Wa State Army	None		1989	Bao Youxiang
	File:Flag of Biafra.svg Indigenous People of Biafra	Eastern Security Network	Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria	2012	Nnamdi Kanu
	Adaka Biafra Marine Commandos	None	Conflict in the Niger Delta
	Asawana Deadly Force of Niger Delta (ADFND)	None
	Biafra Avengers	None
	Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force	None
	Joint Revolutionary Council of the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force (JNDLF)	None
	Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta	None		2004	Henry Okah
	File:Niger Delta Union party flag.png Niger Delta Avengers	None		2016
	Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force	None		2004
	Niger Delta Red Squad	None
	Red Egbesu Water Lions	None
	Red Scorpion	None
	Utorogun Liberation Movement (ULM)	None
	Ultimate Warriors of Niger Delta	None
	Ansaru	None	Islamist insurgency in Nigeria	2012
	Boko Haram	None		2002	Abu Umaimata
	Lakurawa	None		2016	Ameer Habib Tajje
	Fulani herdsmen	None	Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria	1999
	Baloch Republican Army	None	Insurgency in Balochistan	2007	Brahumdagh Bugti
	Balochistan Liberation Army	None		2000	Hyrbyair Marri
	Jaish ul-Adl	None		2012	Salahuddin Farooqui
	Tehrik-i-Taliban	Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi	Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	2007	Noor Wali Mehsud
	Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan	None		2023	Maulana Abdullah Yaghistani
	Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades	None		2000
	Army of Islam	None		2006	Mumtaz Dughmush
	Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine	National Resistance Brigades		1968	Nayef Hawatmeh
	Hamas	Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades		1987	Khaled Mashal
	Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine	Al-Quds Brigades		1987	Ziyad al-Nakhalah / Abd Al Aziz Awda
	Lions' Den	None		2022
	Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine	Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades		1967	Ahmad Sa'adat
	Popular Resistance Committees	Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades		2000	Ayman al-Shashniya
	Armed Peasant Association (ACA)	None	Insurgency in Paraguay	2014
	Army of Marshal López (Ejército del Mariscal López, EML)	None
	Paraguayan People's Army (EPP)	None		2006	Osvaldo Villalba
	Militarized Communist Party of Peru	None	Internal conflict in Peru	1992	Comrade José
	Shining Path	None		1960s	Abimael Guzmán
	Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters	None	Civil conflict in the Philippines	2008	Esmail Abdulmalik
	Communist Party of the Philippines	New People's Army		1968
	Template:Flagicon Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance	None	Casamance conflict	1982
Template:SSD	Nuer White Army	None	Ethnic violence in South Sudan	1991	Bordoang Leah
	Template:Flagicon South Sudan Democratic Movement	None		2010	John Uliny
	Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition	None		2013	Riek Machar
	Sudanese Awakening Revolutionary Council	None	War in Darfur	2014	Musa Hilal
	Janjaweed	None	Sudanese civil war (2023)	1987
	Rapid Support Forces	None		2013	Hemedti
	Sudan Liberation Movement (al-Nur)	None		2006	Abdul Wahid al-Nur
	Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North (al-Hilu)	None		2017	Abdelaziz al-Hilu
	Tamazuj	None
	Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria	Army of Revolutionaries Asayish People's Protection Units Kurdish Front Sutoro Syriac Military Council Women's Protection Units	Syrian Civil War	2013	Îlham Ehmed / Mansur Selum
	Coastal Shield Brigade	None		2025	Miqdad Fatiha
	Guardians of Truth Battalions	None		2025
	Junud al-Makhdi	Jamaat Bulgar Jaish al-Shomal al-Islami		2016	Sayfuddin al-Tatari
	Military Council for the Liberation of Syria	None		2025	Ghiath Suleiman Dalla
	So Be Steadfast Operations Room	Ansar al-Din Front		2020
	Syrian Popular Resistance	None		2024
	Islamic Resistance Front in Syria	None		2024
	Ya Ali Popular Formations	None		2025
	Barisan Revolusi Nasional	None	South Thailand insurgency	1963
	Gerakan Mujahidin Islam Patani	None		1995	Nasoree Saesang
	Islamic Liberation Front of Patani	None		1947	Tengku Mahmood Mahyideen / Tengku Abdul Jalal
	Patani United Liberation Organisation	None		1968
	Runda Kumpulan Kecil	None		2000	Rorhing Ahsong
	File:ShababFlag.svg Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade	None
	Islamic Party of Kurdistan	None	Kurdish–Turkish conflict	1979	Muhammad Salih Mustafa
	Kurdistan Communities Union	None		2005	Abdullah Öcalan
	Kurdistan Freedom Hawks	None		2004
	Kurdish Hezbollah	None		1983	İsa Altsoy
	Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist (Maoist Party Centre)	None	Maoist insurgency in Turkey	1987
	Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front	None		1970
	Peoples' United Revolutionary Movement	Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist–Leninist Maoist Communist Party Marxist–Leninist Communist Party Marxist–Leninist Armed Propaganda Unit	Kurdish–Turkish conflict Maoist insurgency in Turkey	2016
	Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front	None	DHKP/C insurgency in Turkey Maoist insurgency in Turkey	1994
	Turkish Islamic Jihad	None
	Uganda Coalition for Change (UCFC)	None		2021
	Arm na Poblachta	None	Dissident Irish republican campaign	2017
	Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)	None		1994	Continuity Army Council
	New Irish Republican Army	None		2012	Army Council
	Real Ulster Freedom Fighters	None		2007
	Houthi movement	Supreme Political Council	Yemeni Civil War (2014–present) Yemeni Crisis (2011–present)	1994	Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi
	Template:Flagicon Southern Movement	Southern Transitional Council		2007	Aidarus al-Zoubaidi

Groups that control territory

Groups that "control territory" are defined as any group that hold any populated or inhabited town, city, village, or defined area that is under the direct administration or military control of the group. Such control may be contested and might be temporary or fluctuating, especially under the circumstance of conflict. It does not include the governments of stable breakaway states or other states with limited recognition.

See also

• List of rebel groups that control territory
• List of guerrilla movements
• List of designated terrorist organizations
• List of ongoing military conflicts
• Lists of active separatist movements
• Violent non-state actor