Within state
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Rebel group
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Conflict
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Control since
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Territory controlled
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Notes
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Leader
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Headquarters
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Burkina Faso
Mali
Somalia
Yemen
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Al-Qaeda
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Mali War Somali Civil War Yemeni Civil War
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2006
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Parts of Burkina Faso[1]
Parts of central and northern Mali[2]
Large parts of southern and central Somalia[3]
Small parts of Abyan Governorate[4]
|
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TBD
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Tinzaouaten (Mali)[5] Jilib (Somalia)[6]
|
Nigeria
|
Boko Haram
|
Boko Haram insurgency
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2009
|
Small parts of Borno, Kaduna and Niger States[7]
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Relocated to Kaduna State after the Battle of Sambisa Forest
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Abu Umaimata
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Chikun[8][9]
|
Mali
Mozambique
Nigeria
Somalia
|
Islamic State
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Insurgency in Cabo Delgado Mali War Boko Haram insurgency Somali Civil War
|
2015
|
Large parts of Borno State[10][11][12]
Several villages in the Bari region[13]
Several villages in the Gao region[14]
Parts of Cabo Delgado Province[15]
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Designated a terrorist organization by the United Nations[16]
|
Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi
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Unknown
|
Nigeria
|
Indigenous People of Biafra
|
Insurgency in Southeastern Nigeria
|
2021
|
Parts of the Former Republic of Biafra
|
|
Nnamdi Kanu
|
Unknown
|
Cameroon
|
Biafra Nations League
|
Bakassi Conflict
|
2021
|
Bakassi Peninsula
|
|
Princewill Chimezie Richards, Henry Edet
|
Bakassi Peninsula
|
Cameroon
|
Red Dragon
|
Anglophone Crisis
|
2019
|
Several villages in Lebialem department of Southwest Province in Cameroon[17]
|
The Red Dragon militia controlling parts of Lebialem is loyal to the Interim Government of Ambazonia
|
Lekeaka Oliver
|
Unknown
|
Central African Republic
|
Coalition of Patriots for Change[18][19]
|
Central African Republic Civil War
|
2020
|
Parts of Central African Republic[18]
|
Coalition of multiple groups including Anti-balaka,[18] 3R, and MPC[19]
|
François Bozizé[18][19]
|
N'Djamena, Chad[20]
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo
|
Mai-Mai
|
Kivu conflict
|
2003
|
Parts of northeastern DRC[21]
|
Various groups
|
Various leaders
|
Depending on group
|
March 23 Movement
|
2012
|
Parts of North Kivu province[22]
|
|
Bertrand Bisimwa
|
|
Nduma Defense of Congo-Renouveau
|
2015
|
Parts of North Kivu province[23]
|
|
Shimiray Mwissa Guidon
|
Pinga
|
Mali
|
Azawad
|
Mali War
|
2012
|
Parts of northern Mali[24]
|
|
Bilal Ag Acherif
|
Kidal[25]
|
Ethiopia
|
Fano
|
War in Amhara
|
2023
|
Parts of the Amhara Region[26]
|
|
Zemene Kassie
|
|
Myanmar
|
Kachin Independence Army
|
Internal conflict in Myanmar
|
2011
|
Parts of Kachin State[27]
|
Military wing of Kachin Independence Organisation
|
N'Ban La
|
Laiza
|
People's Defence Force
|
2021
|
Areas across Myanmar.[28]
|
Created as opposition to military junta
|
Duwa Lashi La
|
Multiple local headquarters
|
MNDAA
|
2021
|
Kokang region.
|
|
Pheung Kya-shin
|
|
KNDF
|
2021
|
Kayah State
|
|
Khun Bedu
|
|
Chinland
|
2021
|
Parts of Chin State[29]
|
|
|
Falam
|
Karen National Liberation Army
|
1966
|
Parts of Kayin State[30][31]
|
Military wing of Karen National Union
|
Saw Mutu Say Poe
|
Lay Wah
|
Senegal
|
Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance
|
Casamance conflict
|
1982
|
Parts of Casamance region in Senegal.[32]
|
|
|
|
Sudan
|
Sudan Revolutionary Front
|
Sudan–SRF conflict
|
2011
|
Parts of South Kordofan state and Blue Nile state[33]
|
|
Abdelaziz al-Hilu
|
Kauda[34]
|
Syria
|
Tahrir al-Sham
|
Syrian civil war
|
2017
|
Part of Idlib Governorate in northwest Syria[35]
|
Faction within the Syrian civil war opposed to the Syrian government
|
Abu Mohammad al-Julani
|
Idlib[35]
|
Maghaweir al-Thowra
|
2016
|
Small pocket in the Syrian Desert adjacent to the Jordanian border and the Iraqi border[36][37]
|
Faction within the Syrian civil war opposed to the Syrian government and aligned with the United States
|
|
Al-Tanf[37]
|
Rojava
|
2012
|
Territories in the north and east of Syria, mostly over the Euphrates River
|
Faction within the Syrian civil war allied to the Syrian government and opposed by Turkey
|
Îlham Ehmed, Mansur Selum
|
Qamishli
|
Syrian National Army
|
2017
|
Border areas of Northern Syria[38]
|
Faction within the Syrian civil war opposed to the Syrian government and aligned with Turkey
|
Anas al-Abdah
|
Azaz[39]
|
Yemen
|
Southern Movement
|
Yemeni Civil War
|
2017
|
Some of the territory in South Yemen[40][41][42]
|
Organized in response to various grievances of southern Yemenis. It maintains a tenuous peace with the Yemeni government.
|
Aidarus al-Zoubaidi
|
Aden
|
Houthi movement
|
2004
|
Most of former North Yemen, including the capital Sana'a, and parts of South Yemen[43]
|
The Houthis control the Supreme Political Council,[44] which is unrecognized by the international community
|
Mahdi al-Mashat
|
Sa'dah
|