https://www.isdglobal.org/explainers/militias-in-the-us/
Oct 29, 2024 - Overviews of issues, trends, narratives, platforms and actors.
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https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole
Jan 4, 2025 - Disgusted by Jan. 6, John Williams set out on a two-year undercover operation. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
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https://worldisraelnews.com/iran-backed-militias-reassert-power-in-iraq-proving-the-islamic-axis-is-still-standing-analysis/
Dec 16, 2025 - Israel has long known that militias have deployed missiles in Iraq’s western deserts, just 400 km from its northern border.
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https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-883517
As reports of Iraqi fighters in Iran circulate, flight patterns and eyewitness descriptions suggest an organized pipeline
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https://www.politico.eu/article/libya-militia-human-rights-eu-lcg-italy-un-fishing-boats-ngos/
Oct 9, 2025 - EU countries should coordinate competent search and rescue operations, open routes for those fleeing to safety, and ensure the bloc stops financing...
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https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-02-11/ty-article-magazine/.premium/rafah-crossing-militias-interrogations-and-threats-the-harrowing-road-back-to-gaza/0000019c-479d-d571-affe-5fdfa86f0000
Feb 11, 2026 - About 150 People Have Been Permitted to Enter the Gaza Enclave in the Week Since the Rafah Crossing Reopened. Eyewitness Accounts, Videos and Satellite Images...
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https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/pro-iran-militias-are-big-winners-iraqs-election
For many Iraqis who dreamed of a state built on the rule of law and robust institutions, the outcome of this year’s vote feels like a major setback.
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https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2025/10/profiles-of-anti-hamas-militias-in-the-gaza-strip.php
Oct 19, 2025 - Anti-Hamas militias have emerged in several locations across the Gaza Strip, aiming to erode the group’s control. Some of the militias reportedly receive...
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https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2025/10/hamas-cracks-down-on-rival-clans-and-militias-in-gaza.php
Oct 15, 2025 - Hamas has embarked on a campaign against opposing militias and clans in the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire with Israel took effect on October 10. Hamas’s...
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https://asiatimes.com/2025/10/clans-gangs-and-militias-fighting-hamas-for-control-of-gaza/
Oct 20, 2025 - Despite the euphoria surrounding the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, Gaza is still wracked with violence. More than two dozen Palestinians have been
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https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/lawmakers-greenlight-governors-establishment-of-regional-militias/224360
Sep 27, 2024 - Veterans from the war against Ukraine could get a special role in the armed structures established by Russian regions to protect against “extraordinary...
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https://www.stimson.org/2025/gazas-armed-fragmentation-clans-militias-and-rival-power-centers/
Oct 28, 2025 - Many of the groups are supported by Israeli authorities who see Palestinian fragmentation as a way to both contain Hamas and to perpetuate Israel’s...
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https://worldisraelnews.com/anti-hamas-militias-vow-to-continue-fight-after-leaders-killing/
Dec 7, 2025 - Rafah-based leader Yasser Abu Shabab was shot in a clan dispute, not by Hamas operatives.
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https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/06/28/world/us-iran-linked-strikes/
The latest U.S. airstrikes on Iranian-backed militia groups come at a delicate time for Washington and Tehran.
ustrikesiranbackedmilitias
https://worldisraelnews.com/report-israel-transferring-hamas-weapons-to-druze-militias-in-syria/
Dec 24, 2025 - Israel reportedly financing Druze militias in southern Syria while arming them with weapons taken from Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists.
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https://www.wired.com/story/proud-boys-and-militias-come-to-teslas-defense/
Mar 31, 2025 - After weeks of “Tesla Takedown” protests, extremist groups are showing up to back Elon Musk’s beleaguered car company.
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/ammon-bundy-richard-mack-far-right-militias-adored-the-constitution-then-came-trump/
Right-wing activists have long warned of the coming federal invasion. Where are they now that it's happened?
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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/30/russian-border-region-forms-volunteer-militias-as-finland-plans-military-drills-a91000
Jan 17, 2026 - Authorities in Russia’s republic of Karelia say they are forming volunteer militias to help defend the country’s border with Finland following Helsinki’s...
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https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-882282
"The issue of disarmament should be discussed and agreed upon by Palestinian factions under the auspices of Arab states, especially Egypt," said the...
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