List of Guerrilla Movements - Europe

Europe

  • National Liberation Army - Republic of Macedonia
  • Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) - Spain
  • National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters - (EOKA) Cyprus
  • Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) - Semi-recognised country of Kosovo
  • Kosovo Republic Armed Forces (FARK) - Semi-recognised country of Kosovo
  • UCPMB - Serbia
  • Catalan Red Liberation Army - Spain
  • Commando Elizabeth Van Dyck - France
  • Antifascist Resistance Groups October First - Spain
  • Provisional IRA (IRA) - Northern Ireland
  • Brigate Rosse (BR, after split BR-PCC) - Italy
  • Chechen guerrillas under nominal leadership of Aslan Maskhadov (who is now deceased) - Chechnya

Historic

  • Forest Brothers - Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania (World War II–1952 approx.)
  • World War II Resistance movements in various countries sponsored by the United Kingdom and other Western governments;
  • 'Old' IRA - Ireland (prior to the establishment of an independent state of Ireland)
  • Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland (Chetniks) - Yugoslavia
  • National Liberation Army (Partizans) - Yugoslavia
  • Brigate Rosse (BR, later split, BR-PCC and BR-UCC largest factions) - Italy
  • Action Directe (AD) - 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
  • Polish underground army, Armia Krajowa, Bataliony Chłopskie and National Armed Forces during World War II, small units after the war later described as Cursed soldiers
  • Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS) - Greece
  • Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) - Ukraine
  • Red Army Faction (RAF) - Western Germany, known also as Baader-Meinhof Gang
  • Democratic Army of Greece, Communist partisans during the Greek Civil War - Greece

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