List of active rebel groups

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: Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) Islamic State – Central Africa Province (one faction) 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) Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind 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) War in the Sahel 1988 Saif al-Adel Multinational: Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA) None Dissident Irish republican campaign 1994 Continuity Army Council New Irish Republican Army None 2012 Army Council Multinational: Islamic State Allied Democratic Forces (factions) Azerbaijan Province Caucasus Province Central Africa Province Hind Province Islamic State in Somalia Khorasan Province Pakistan Province Sahel Province

Turkey Province West Africa Province Yemen Province Islamic State–Taliban conflict Yemeni Civil War Insurgency in the Maghreb Northern Mali conflict War in the Sahel War in North-West Pakistan Somali Civil War Syrian conflict Insurgency in Egypt Turkey–ISIL conflict ISIL insurgency in the Philippines Iraqi insurgency (2017–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: 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 National Resistance Front of Afghanistan None 2021 Ahmad Massoud Republic of Cabinda FLEC Cabinda War 1975 António Bento Bembe List of Ambazonian militant groups Anglophone Crisis 2017 Samuel Ikome Sako Coalition of Patriots for Change Anti-balaka Central African Patriotic Movement Popular Front for the Rebirth of Central African Republic Central African Republic Civil War 2020 François Bozizé (alleged) Party of the Rally of the Central African Nation None 2019 Nourd Gregaza Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco Lafkenche Mapuche Resistance Mapuche conflict 1998 Héctor Llaitul Weichán Auka Mapu None 2011 Collective leadership East Turkestan Islamic Movement None Xinjiang conflict 1988 Abdullah Mansour 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 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 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 Hasm Movement None Insurgency in Egypt 2015 Fano Wollo Fano Gojjam Fano Gondar Fano Shewa Fano Amhara People's Army War in Amhara 2018 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 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 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 People's Fighters Front None Insurgency in Balochistan 2025 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 Informal Anarchist Federation None 2003 Green Resistance None Libyan Crisis (2011–present) 2014 Libyan National Army Libyan Army (part) Libyan Air Force (part) Libyan Navy (part) Libyan Special Forces Tariq Ben Zeyad Brigade2011Khalifa Haftar Toubou Front for the Salvation of Libya None 2007 Issa Abdel Majid Mansur Zintan Brigades None 2011 Kalifah Shahub Ansar al-Sharia None Mali War 2012 Azawad Liberation Front None 2011 Alghabass Ag Intalla 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 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 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 People's Fighters Front None 2025 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 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 Army of Marshal López (Ejército del Mariscal López, EML) None Insurgency in Paraguay 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 Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance None Casamance conflict 1982 Nuer White Army None Ethnic violence in South Sudan 1991 Bordoang Leah 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 conflict 2013 Îlham Ehmed / Mansur Selum Coastal Shield Brigade None 2025 Miqdad Fatiha Guardians of Truth Battalions None 2025 Islamic Resistance Front in Syria Syrian Popular Resistance Coastal Shield Brigade defectors Popular Resistance of the Eastern Region Popular Resistance in Daraa Popular Resistance in Quneitra Saraya al-Areen Baqiyat Allah Brigades Syrian Resistance 2024 Military Council for the Liberation of Syria None 2025 Ghiath Suleiman Dalla Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah None 2025 Abu Aisha al-Shami 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 Islamic Party of Kurdistan None Kurdish–Turkish conflict 1979 Muhammad Salih Mustafa Kurdistan Communities Union None 2005 Abdullah Öcalan Kurdistan Freedom Hawks None 2004 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