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"paramilitary" Definitions
  1. a paramilitary organization is an illegal group that is organized like an army
  2. helping the official army of a country

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In the past year, the number of paramilitary-style attacks and deaths linked to paramilitary groups increased, according to a report published this month by the Independent Reporting Commission, a group that monitors paramilitary activity.
A HUGE CAR bomb struck a convoy of paramilitary police in Indian-administered Kashmir on February 14th, killing at least 24 paramilitary police.
A 2003 peace accord led to around 35,000 paramilitary fighters handing in their weapons, largely bringing an end to battles between rebel and paramilitary forces.
Paramilitary sources in the area and a Baghdad-based paramilitary leader said one person had been killed in the attack, which took place early on Friday.
Half an hour earlier, two suicide bombers tried to attack a paramilitary checkpoint on the city's outskirts, but troops deployed there engaged them, a paramilitary officer said.
While paramilitary groups have demobilized, thousands of former paramilitary fighters morphed into new drug gangs, known as BACRIM, which the government now regards as Colombia's biggest security threat.
Border Patrol is paramilitary — it's between these two worlds.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An unmanned aircraft dropped explosives on a base belonging to Iran-linked Shi'ite paramilitary groups in northern Iraq on Friday, killing at least one person, the army and paramilitary sources said.
Cristian Carrozza, commander of the Ancona province Carabinieri paramilitary police.
Opposition politicians blamed some of the deaths on paramilitary groups.
The use of paramilitary thugs marked an escalation of violence.
The five killed are paramilitary contractors, not Russian military personnel.
He quickly stacked ministries with veterans of the paramilitary IRGC.
Mario Cerciello Rega of the Carabinieri, Italy's paramilitary police force.
The stains of his alleged paramilitary past have never faded.
These are the most powerful such paramilitary groups in Iraq.
The party was founded in 1971 by firebrand preacher Ian Paisley, and just as Sinn Fein has very strong links to republican paramilitary groups, the DUP has strong, historical links to loyalist paramilitary groups.
Iván Velásquez, who led the Supreme Court's paramilitary corruption investigation, said at a forum in Bogotá a few years ago that the truth-telling by paramilitary leaders was not impressive before or after the extraditions.
He listened to personal accounts from four people, including a woman who joined a paramilitary group when she was 16, a former FARC guerrilla, and two victims of violence between the guerrillas and paramilitary squads.
That conflict, which claimed nearly 3,600 lives, was largely fought by paramilitary groups representing nationalists, a largely Catholic population who sought a united Ireland, and paramilitary groups representing unionists, who sought to preserve British rule.
Another option would be to turn to Iranian-backed paramilitary groups.
The paramilitary "Knights Templar International" is preparing for a race war.
Indian paramilitary police are present at every exit route from Soura.
Most ominous is the arrival in Bacurau of a paramilitary group.
Mohandis serves as the chief state administrator for Shi'ite paramilitary forces.
Police argued locals were running paramilitary training camps in Te Urewera.
Shabayev has been a representative for paramilitary fighters in eastern Ukraine.
The marketers responsible for the visuals leaned heavily on paramilitary imagery.
Seen here are paramilitary on their way to St. Martins Island.
Throughout election day, heavy paramilitary presence was reported around polling stations.
He had never heard of an ''outside paramilitary special operations group.
The only thing we're missing in this family is a paramilitary.
What followed was an extraordinary show of paramilitary precision and force.
The paramilitary operation at the National Autonomous University began Friday afternoon.
Militias in Brazil are different from paramilitary groups in other countries.
"Iran's paramilitary force is not a one-man show," she said.
His bodyguards from elite paramilitary interior ministry units were also replaced.
On Friday, children played cricket as paramilitary forces guarded the streets.
Iraqi state news also reported a strike against the paramilitary forces.
It hosts both U.S. troops and paramilitary groups loyal to Tehran.
Unfortunately, Rikers by then was itself becoming a virtual paramilitary compound.
Reuters was shown one supposedly from the 'Black Eagles' paramilitary group.
Drug indictments of key paramilitary leaders followed, and Mr. Uribe, elected in 2002 with a vow to crack down on leftist rebels, used the threat of extradition to motivate the paramilitary leaders to lay down their arms.
One day "milkman", a paramilitary, interrupts her stroll with Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe".
Others include paramilitary groups, the best known of which is the Urabeños.
Two members of Burkina Faso's paramilitary gendarmes were killed defending the embassy.
The deputy president's residence is guarded by an elite paramilitary police unit.
There was talk of a paramilitary force of 300 to 400 people.
The opposition blames the deaths on security forces and alleged paramilitary groups.
The C.I.A.'s "daring amateurs" were often diverted into futile paramilitary adventures.
He's become the super-rich head of a Blackwater-type paramilitary operation.
That paramilitary force conducted very public exercises in the area last week.
She had to be escorted out by a squad of paramilitary officers.
The truck, she said, was later traced to a paramilitary police officer.
Paramilitary Pakistani Rangers responded and targeted the Indian posts, the statement said.
On Tuesday, protest leaders blamed a paramilitary group run by Lt. Gen.
On Tuesday, protest leaders blamed a paramilitary group run by Lt. Gen.
Yes. Age: 52 Occupation: head of security Your look is almost paramilitary.
The New IRA is a nationalist paramilitary group that formed around 2012.
"They have become the paramilitary groups of the Maduro administration," Santos told Reuters.
Paramilitary police officers standing guard outside a shopping mall in Hotan, in Xinjiang.
The Venezuelan government accused Holt of stockpiling weapons and assisting a paramilitary gang.
They have encouraged youths to riot, thus blooding them for future paramilitary careers.
Typically the deputy president's residence is guarded by an elite paramilitary police unit.
The pair are also building their own paramilitary forces to fight Islamic State.
But the protests have made no change to the pro-Iranian paramilitary groups.
Iran&aposs paramilitary Basij force was to hold a drill in the area.
Patay is also from Davao, where he once led a paramilitary police unit.
Ameri's bloc, made up of Shi'ite paramilitary groups, remained second with 48 seats.
Naval officers exchanged fire with members of the spy agency and paramilitary forces.
Raising them high in the air, they sang chants against the paramilitary group.
The CIA is good at intelligence gathering, intelligence analysis, and planning paramilitary operations.
The FARC, the Colombian army and right-wing paramilitary groups all murdered civilians.
Criminal gangs that grew out of right-wing paramilitary groups are another menace.
The discovery was part of an investigation into two former paramilitary group members.
The paramilitary aesthetic extended to products that had nothing to do with guns.
The rangers are an armed paramilitary force under the command of Pakistan's military.
Other times, its paramilitary groups and gang members hired to do their bidding.
Police and stick-wielding paramilitary forces have appeared to supervise incoming aid trucks.
The police, armed now with assault rifles, had been reinforced with paramilitary troops.
Nepal's paramilitary forces and the police were also deployed in the disputed area.
On Thursday, Indian military and paramilitary forces were deployed across the two states.
Paramilitary groups agreed to disarm in exchange for participating in the democratic process.
An Iraqi military brigade will fight alongside the Hashd al Shabi, another name for PMU -- which includes a Shia paramilitary group called Sons of Tal Afar, a Sunni Hashd paramilitary also from Tal Afar, and members of the federal police.
Scores of interviews with Rakhine Buddhist villagers, soldiers, paramilitary police, Rohingya and a local administrator further revealed: - The military and paramilitary police organized Buddhist residents of Inn Din and at least two other villages to torch Rohingya homes, Buddhist villagers said.
Exacerbated by austerity, and assisted by an explosion of Facebook groups that spew hatred and romanticize the conflict, paramilitary activity has risen over the past year, whilst the number of murders linked to paramilitary involvement in 2016 more than doubled.
"The war claimed nearly 3,600 lives, was largely fought by paramilitary groups representing nationalists, a largely Catholic population who sought a united Ireland, and paramilitary groups representing unionists, who sought to preserve British rule," my colleague Jen Kirby explained for Vox.
Roadside vendors now sell the flags of the Iraqi army and Shi'ite paramilitary forces.
Prosecutors argued Lustgarten was obtaining the US dollars from drug traffickers and paramilitary groups.
Anger has also been directed at paramilitary groups such as Badr, which is unusual.
Sectarian murals and paramilitary flags create what NIHE calls a "chill factor", deterring outsiders.
He told CBS News that Cruz attended a "paramilitary training" session with other members.
At last around a dozen camouflaged paramilitary police in red berets boarded the plane.
Among them are Kurdish groups, including the Peshmerga, and Shia and Christian paramilitary groups.
A paramilitary police officer was shot dead in the Indonesian part of New Guinea.
As well as the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, Shiite paramilitary forces are leading the offensive.
Paramilitary gangs on both sides of the sectarian divide are active in organised crime.
The two dead included a paramilitary officer and a policeman who died in hospital.
D&aposSOUZA: I just wish, Mussolini had these paramilitary fighters called the Black Shirts.
The Spike's poster threw all of the paramilitary fetishism at SHOT into troubling relief.
The United Nations has expressed concerns about the use of paramilitary forces against protesters.
But Heisler was young and careless, and Arrow Cross paramilitary members caught him twice.
Chinese paramilitary forces have conducted crowd-control drills near the border with Hong Kong.
Yet police and paramilitary violence and human rights violations accompany its grand sporting events.
The Kurdish troops included the elite Zeravani paramilitary force, which attacked on three fronts.
Niran Chaisalih, the leader of a government paramilitary force garrisoned at the village school.
The two were arrested by Iran's paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in July 2016.
One hidden recipient was a former paramilitary commander sentenced to 15 years for extortion.
Our research on the reintegration of Colombia's former guerrilla and paramilitary combatants provides guidance.
"You can defend against (paramilitary forces), but you can't defend against this," said Capt.
About 400 of those Russian paramilitary troops have now been killed in the war.
They include the state broadcaster, a compliant judiciary, military leaders and ruthless paramilitary forces.
Soleimani's Quds Force and its paramilitary proxies have ample means to mount a response.
How widespread is the influence of paramilitary gangs in Brazil's police force and politics?
Many of the guides on these tours, Brian noted, were themselves former paramilitary members.
The commission deploys federal armed police and paramilitary forces to safeguard the election process.
Once fierce adversaries, the most recent national elections saw Iraqi parties with links to the paramilitary Popular Mobilization Forces — an umbrella organization of about 50 paramilitary groups, many with ties to Tehran, which successfully fought against the Islamic State — gain even more power.
Eyewitnesses said that the police and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces shot at protesters on Monday.
In 1979 he launched a paramilitary operation to spring two employees from an Iranian jail.
From 2009 to 2014, Wang commanded the paramilitary People's Armed Police, reporting directly to Zhou.
The paramilitary source said his group's weapons depot was specifically targeted by an aerial bombardment.
"We're seeing the use of paramilitary forces against workers in Indonesia and Cambodia," Bhattacharjee explains.
Smith said he was interested in joining the Azov Battalion, a paramilitary group in Ukraine.
The soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber drove into a convoy carrying paramilitary troopers.
Two days later a police officer is shot dead by a different paramilitary republican faction.
Iran has armed and trained thousands of Shi'ite paramilitary fighters to shore up the government.
They opened accounts for 30,000 right-wing paramilitary fighters who demobilised between 2003 and 2005.
It also commands the Basij religious militia, a volunteer paramilitary force loyal to the revolution.
A former guard in the SS paramilitary wing of Hitler's Nazis, he denied the charges.
Colombia's five-decade war pitted leftist rebels against government forces and right-wing paramilitary groups.
Two Iran-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups said talk of threats was "psychological warfare" by Washington.
Sarah Blesener, an American photographer, traveled to Russia last summer to photograph the paramilitary camps.
It has held several paramilitary style training camps in the U.S. within the past year.
Pakistan condemned the Thursday bomb attack that killed 44 paramilitary policemen but denied any complicity.
The PFG is a thousands-strong paramilitary force set up to protect Libya's oil installations.
Likewise, Dunbar-Ortiz sounds the legacy of figures like pro-slavery paramilitary leader William Quantrill.
The purges were carried out by soldiers and military-backed civilian, paramilitary and religious groups.
The most powerful Shiite paramilitary units have a similar relationship with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Decades of fighting brought the rise of paramilitary groups who massacred civilians and burned villages.
However, today some of those men lead paramilitary groups that are connected to political parties.
Most police, paramilitary, and army officers in Jammu and Kashmir work under the Indian government.
She also details the horrors of paramilitary terrorism waged by the Klan and its affiliates.
The training of or by North Koreans in military, police and paramilitary techniques is banned.
CIA paramilitary operatives also conduct operations on the ground alongside elite US special forces personnel.
Officials told Reuters that they are launching a full-scale paramilitary Rangers operation in response.
Ontita, the police commander, said extra police and paramilitary forces had been sent to Kom.
The former president himself was investigated last year for alleged paramilitary ties, but not charged.
Both Nazi paramilitary forces and German citizens were believed to have participated in the attacks.
"Some paramilitary organizations still have coercive control and influence over some communities," Sheridan pointed out.
There, they've encountered retaliation from security forces and paramilitary groups loyal to the Ortega government.
We have ongoing coercive control by paramilitary structures at a local level across many communities.
BRING THE WAR HOME The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America By Kathleen Belew Illustrated.
There were 22 states that passed laws banning paramilitary training activity within their state borders.
Iran is organizing political and paramilitary forces in Iraq to win in upcoming parliamentary elections.
The United States, determined to prevent this from happening in Guatemala, supported the paramilitary marauders.
The Revolutionary Guard, a hard-line paramilitary organization, has major economic interests in the country.
Iran sent in paramilitary operatives and battle-hardened fighters from Hezbollah, its Lebanon-based proxy.
Just how deep do the connections between Brazil's paramilitary "death squads" and the government run?
She emigrated to Palestine, joined the paramilitary group Haganah and was wounded in an explosion.
Police said 60,000 state police and 19,000 paramilitary personnel will be on duty on Saturday.
This sort of posturing by the Chinese paramilitary forces is a needless escalation of tensions.
The TMC, meanwhile, put forward the head of its paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Gen.
Tributes to paramilitary groups are painted proudly on the walls of some homes and shops.
Before the rally, Mr. Mehsud was ordered to report to the local paramilitary group's headquarters.
"We were the target of a terrorist, paramilitary, mercenary attack against peace," said Maj. Gen.
Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's paramilitary forces, in an airstrike in Iraq last Thursday.
The F.B.I. director recently warned that American extremists, too, are traveling overseas for paramilitary training.
C.I.A. paramilitary officers from the division were the first Americans in Afghanistan after the Sept.
Iran also miscalculated its response when paramilitary forces linked to Iran surrounded the U.S. embassy.
That somebody, he offered, might be General Suleimani, the commander of Iran's paramilitary Quds Force.
Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the country's powerful paramilitary force.
Police and paramilitary groups were sent to calm the clashes that sparked earlier this week.
The Israeli military and police said five soldiers and five paramilitary border policemen were hurt.
Who knows, maybe you'll get the call when his paramilitary operation gets off the ground.
Offered as a measure to "further restrict the kind of paramilitary activity by white supremacist militias and similar groups that was seen in Charlottesville in August 2017," the proposed law, if it is to at all resemble Herring's previous paramilitary bill, is unconstitutionally vague.
Scores of interviews with Rakhine Buddhist villagers, soldiers, paramilitary police, Rohingya Muslims and local administrators further revealed: - The military and paramilitary police organized Buddhist residents of Inn Din and at least two other villages to torch Rohingya homes, more than a dozen Buddhist villagers said.
Kurdish peshmerga and Shi'ite paramilitary forces are holding territory to the northeast and to the west.
The IRGC is the main backer of the Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitary force known as Popular Mobilisation.
The documentary explores her life — from Holocaust survivor to paramilitary sniper to world famous sex guru.
Its student wing was the main source of recruits for a notorious pro-Pakistani paramilitary body.
In July this year it was the last to fall as his paramilitary forces retook Masaya.
Though she does not have Mr McGuinness's paramilitary background, she is from an impeccably republican family.
In mid-August, China deployed large numbers of paramilitary personnel close to the border in Shenzhen.
The aim: to keep Indian security forces, and particularly the paramilitary police, out of the area.
Iran and paramilitary allies such as Lebanon's Hezbollah have been involved in Syria's war since 2012.
The restrictions in Srinagar were the city's tightest ever, two paramilitary officials told Reuters on Monday.
Iran officially has no military presence in Iraq but backs its most powerful Shi'ite paramilitary groups.
He said India rightly avenged the killing of 40 paramilitary police in the state on Feb.
One day paramilitary commanders ordered the cousin to pick the hitman who would kill Afranio Solano.
Witnesses said at the time the security forces were led by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
The latest attack killed at least 12 policemen, one paramilitary officer and two civilians, officials said.
Pakistan had condemned bomb attack in February that killed 40 paramilitary policemen but denied any complicity.
A team of the paramilitary Rangers force arrived at Masood's house at around 7:30 a.m.
With the FARC disarmed, other militants, criminal gangs and paramilitary groups are jostling into the breach.
Not far away was the house of Ernst Röhm, head of the Nazi Party's paramilitary wing.
He has not set up paramilitary ranks of goose-stepping goons elaborately uniformed in crisp regalia.
The area has been hit hard by military operations conducted by Pakistani paramilitary forces targeting civilians.
"The leader of their cult is Zionism," the head of Iran's paramilitary Basij organization, Brig. Gen.
A policeman patrolling the area told Reuters journalists the paramilitary police were guarding a basketball tournament.
The Aguilas Negras are a drug trafficking group largely composed of former right-wing paramilitary fighters.
In Colombia, vigilante "self-defense" groups grew, in the 1970s and '80s, into large paramilitary organizations.
However, most police, paramilitary, and army officers in Jammu and Kashmir work under the Indian government.
The streets were desolate except for groups of Indian paramilitary troops with guns and bamboo sticks.
Venezuelan authorities accused him of stockpiling weapons and conspiring with Los Sindicalistas, a Venezuelan paramilitary gang.
In both countries, some mining and agribusiness companies are backed by paramilitary groups, Mr. Kyte said.
Ahead was a jigsaw puzzle of competing powers — guerrillas, paramilitary groups, drug traffickers and the military.
After 2000, however, when paramilitary troops reportedly committed at least 1800 massacres, Washington shifted its perspective.
They accept members and don't require the members to actually go out and conduct paramilitary training.
Her work resulted in the convictions and imprisonment of eight Serb paramilitary leaders and their supporters.
Mr. McFate said the United States could put a bounty on Iran's paramilitary and proxy forces.
Mr. Hopkins's arrest comes as tensions rise over ultraconservative paramilitary groups operating along the southwestern border.
Most belong to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a tribal militia previously known as the Janjaweed.
The IISS Military Balance says 1,800 Gurkhas serve in the Singapore police, across six paramilitary companies.
Then the regime unleashed its paramilitary brigades, and the so-called Green Movement was mercilessly suppressed.
In the early 19813s, military and paramilitary forces razed whole communities in massacres of untrammeled brutality.
Three days later, paramilitary forces tracked him down and brought him to Khartoum's main prison, Kober.
Mohamed Hamdan, a paramilitary commander known as Hemeti, have been key leaders in Sudan's Yemen campaign.
That gave rise to the equally violent paramilitary Ulster Defense Association (UDA) as a Loyalist force.
One paramilitary soldier was also killed, and officials said they feared the death toll would increase.
Earlier this week a suicide bomber killed 44 Indian paramilitary police in the disputed Kashmir region.
Most are former military or paramilitary personnel seeking a two-state solution to Israel's agonized convulsions.
The CCDO is a rapid-reaction unit composed of army soldiers, paramilitary gendarmes and police officers.
There, powerful drug gangs and paramilitary militias battle each other for turf, while all confront police.
Its international paramilitary arm, the Quds Force, is Tehran's main vehicle for supporting Shiite proxy forces.
The Iranian consulate and offices of powerful Iranian-backed Shia paramilitary groups were also set alight.
Oplot was subsequently transformed into a large, Russian-backed paramilitary unit fighting on the separatist side.
Raids by C.I.A. paramilitary officers and militia fighters also resulted in airstrikes that killed Afghan civilians.
Witnesses said police and paramilitary forces were patrolling the streets in far greater numbers on Wednesday.
A spokesman for Pakistan military said paramilitary troops were conducting a search operation around the site.
Then, Kataib Hezbollah—an Iraqi Shiite paramilitary group—laid siege to the American Embassy in Baghdad.
Hardly anyone looked askance at his passion for guns and for training youths in paramilitary tactics.
It has a web of proxies and mostly Shi'ite paramilitary groups that are allied with Tehran.
One of the witnesses who was killed was Carlos Enrique Areiza Arango, a former paramilitary operative.
Iran and paramilitary allies such as Lebanon's Hezbollah have been involved in Syria's war since 803.
In 22015, a paramilitary group affiliated with the government perpetrated another student massacre in the capital.
Amiri, who leads an umbrella of paramilitary groups, has maintained close ties with Iran for decades.
Some of the suspects have had paramilitary training and went to Syria as foreign fighters, Iqbal said.
The demobilization of a major paramilitary group during Uribe's term in office was widely criticized as ineffective.
Brazil's heavily armed drug gangs and paramilitary militias easily get weapons smuggled over the country's porous borders.
"Middle sister", the protagonist (nobody in the book has a conventional name), is stalked by a paramilitary.
Facing them is a 100,000-strong coalition of Iraqi government forces, Kurdish fighters and Shi'ite paramilitary units.
Several paramilitary and police officials referred to the restrictions as a "curfew" in conversations with Reuters reporters.
"The CIA should be a foreign intelligence gathering and analysis organization — not a paramilitary one," he said.
Tensions have been running high since at least 40 Indian paramilitary police were killed in a Feb.
Police said three people were struck by the vehicle, identifying one of them as a paramilitary policeman.
Trained in paramilitary operations, their goal was to help train Afghan police and execute drug interception missions.
There is paramilitary violence on the street, and a military unwilling to put up with civilian control.
The killings that ensued were carried out by soldiers and military-backed civilian, paramilitary and religious groups.
While in central and east India, Maoist extremist groups frequently attack local police, paramilitary and government officials.
Significantly, Hitler remained in the Army after the Armistice; disgruntled nationalist soldiers tended to join paramilitary groups.
"We have asked for security but, well, we don't have security," he said of the paramilitary attacks.
Many children were desensitized to violence through ceaseless indoctrination, paramilitary training and participation in various other crimes.
Witnesses said the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, headed by the military council's deputy, carried out the violence.
Demonstrators and paramilitary forces faced off in the streets of Khartoum, bringing the city to a standstill.
The I.N.L.A. ostensibly decommissioned its weapons along with other paramilitary groups as part of the peace process.
The Second Amendment did not protect private paramilitary organizations or an individual menacingly carrying a loaded weapon.
Other train stations, which are typically bustling, were empty, too, except for paramilitary police guarding the entrance.
Democratic paramilitary organizations — called "Red Shirts" — attacked Populist and Republican voters, suppressing the vote throughout the state.
Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran's elite paramilitary Quds Force, and 39 percent disapproved of the attack.
Paramilitary troops reached the mosque soon after the bombing and cordoned off the area for further investigations.
Iran's navy and its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard routinely conduct seaborne exercises in the Gulf and the strait.
A Reuters cameraman saw trucks carrying armed paramilitary gendarmes drive into crowds and fire volleys of teargas.
Police and paramilitary troops were heavily deployed in sensitive areas of the city and other major towns.
Security forces wore civilian clothes to avoid detection during raids, one of the paramilitary police officers said.
According to one ex-paramilitary, who gave information about the horrors of La Modelo in exchange for lighter sentencing under a 2005 law set up to facilitate the paramilitary demobilization, many of the deaths were rooted in inmates bringing their old conflicts and rivalries with them into the prison.
Uribe and his family have long been accused of paramilitary involvement but previous investigations have borne little fruit.
Three members of the TMC's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces were also shot, according to state news agency SUNA.
We're glad you asked; here's the official line on each, from paramilitary masterminds to friends of flightless waterfowl.
More paramilitary forces aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad went to Afrin on Wednesday, state media said.
Amid the lush landscapes, one finds delimbed villagers, paramilitary officers, party secretaries, strangled animals, and partially skeletal creatures.
They are also trying to stop a paramilitary group, the Oath Keepers, from conducting its own monitoring operation.
Several witnesses said that the paramilitary troops were seen chasing people into hospitals and attacking them there too.
Curfews were put in place, and thousands of army, police, and paramilitary officers were deployed to the area.
Russian-trained mercenaries have also helped to establish a paramilitary unit serving Dodik, local media reported in January.
That changed after paramilitary troops killed 16 peaceful protesters in a massacre on May 30th, Nicaragua's Mothers' Day.
Gone is a paramilitary unit, the Hungarian Guard, which marched around Budapest wearing fascist insignia and black vests.
A woman walks past of a mural depicting members of Iran's Basij volunteer paramilitary force, in downtown Tehran.
Unlike some of Mr Uribe's allies, he is not under investigation for corruption or links to paramilitary groups.
Last July, three Russian journalists investigating Prigozhin's paramilitary involvement in CAR were shot dead outside the capital city.
Among them are Kurdish and Shia paramilitary groups, who are still pushing in from the north and south.
The sergeant said that members of the paramilitary colectivos were issuing the orders in towns along the border.
Police and paramilitary groups apparently working in coordination with authorities have been blamed for most of the violence.
Iran&aposs navy and its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard routinely conduct seaborne exercises in the Gulf and the strait.
Opposition members say Chavez armed and trained the colectivos to have a paramilitary force completely loyal to him.
Government authorities had sent paramilitary forces to the area but the Muslims, fearing clashes, refused to return home.
The conflict, which also includes a smaller rebel group and paramilitary gangs, has killed more than 220,000 people.
But in a rare conviction this year, two paramilitary fighters were sentenced for Bedoya's kidnapping, torture and rape.
No bankers' sons or doctors' sons were involved in the paramilitary groups; the members were all working class.
I was placed in Long Kesh prison, which was segregated, with each paramilitary organization occupying its own areas.
A handful of big gangs emerged after Alvaro Uribe, Santos' predecessor, struck a 2006 agreement with paramilitary groups.
The government has deployed thousands of members of paramilitary forces and police in Ayodhya and other sensitive places.
The forces managed to seize the headquarters of a paramilitary police force, and they took the city's prison.
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps seized two UK-linked oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz last Friday.
It works, especially after Elliot mentions the Deus Group's complicity in a paramilitary massacre that killed Olivia's mother.
In 2003, Uribe chose Medellín as a pilot site for the negotiated demobilization of Colombia's national paramilitary structures.
Paramilitary Rangers also launched a crackdown on criminals in the violent southern port city of Karachi in 2013.
The government has deployed thousands of members of paramilitary forces and police in Ayodhya and other sensitive places.
This week, it was the C.I.A.-led bombing and paramilitary campaign that devastated Laos during the Vietnam War.
From a military angle, Venezuela is an armed state, with Cuban-trained paramilitary militia hidden in population centers.
Police and paramilitary officials enforcing the restrictions said they were clueless about how long the curfew would continue.
The estimated 125,000-strong Revolutionary Guards also command the volunteer paramilitary Basij and control Iran's ballistic missile program.
Freddy said he joined the FARC at 14 to avenge the killing of a cousin by paramilitary forces.
Both had served as inspector generals of the Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force, in restive southwestern Baluchistan Province.
If you want to see what happens in Uncharted 4 you have to shoot a thousand paramilitary grunts.
They have continued to cause low-level street violence since a 1998 peace deal largely ended paramilitary violence.
In the Santa Marta region, the most recent flare-up of neo-paramilitary violence occurred in late 2013.
Some Iraqi media outlets said the attack came from there, where Iran-backed paramilitary groups wield increasing power.
Some Iraqi media outlets said the attack originated from there, where Iran-backed paramilitary groups wield increasing power.
Sponsored by the C.I.A., Phoenix used paramilitary teams to target undercover Communist operatives in villages throughout South Vietnam.
Mr. al-Bashir exerted power for three decades by building up competing paramilitary forces, all loyal to him.
During the decades that Northern Ireland's paramilitary violence garnered worldwide attention, most people were busy making ends meet.
Hong Kong protests China has sent large numbers of paramilitary forces close to the border with Hong Kong.
Tours of the peace walls are often given by ex-paramilitary combatants who were active during the Troubles.
In response, tens of thousands of Shiites joined the army and other groups, including pro-Iranian paramilitary forces.
In 2012 Iván Cepeda, a left-leaning senator, first accused Mr Uribe of having links to paramilitary groups.
Authorities said the individuals were associated with the Atomwaffen Division, a small but violent paramilitary neo-Nazi group.
Last month, they clashed over a suicide attack on an Indian paramilitary convoy in Kashmir by Pakistani militants.
This year, officials held large rallies of paramilitary and police forces as a show of force in Xinjiang.
These paramilitary troops are specially trained in non-lethal tactics and methods of riot suppression and crowd control.
Paramilitary troops have been deployed at important government buildings in Lahore, the provincial capital, to quell further unrest.
There's also an element of Area 51 where the CIA trains its foreign paramilitary partners in counterterrorism tactics.
Experts point to numerous factors including poverty, underfunded mental health services and a recent uptick in paramilitary violence.
The United States blamed Iranian-backed paramilitary groups for attacks on military bases hosting U.S. troops in May.
He had been expected to testify in a witness-tampering case involving the Uribe brothers and paramilitary groups.
Many responded by joining new and long-standing paramilitary organizations that came under the Popular Mobilization Units banner.
Hezbollah has helped establish Iran-backed paramilitary groups in Syria and Iraq and inspired the Iran-aligned Houthis.
The center has a single checkpoint manned by a Shabak paramilitary force affiliated to Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias.
Nation-states and paramilitary groups have long fought deadly conflicts over access to oil, natural gas, and minerals.
The small town has a violent, terrifying history: In 25, the founders of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), the biggest anti-guerrilla, paramilitary and drug-trafficking organization in Colombia—ordered a violent paramilitary advance toward Cúcuta, the capital of Norte de Santander, and the area around it.
China has also sent clear warning that forceful intervention is possible, with paramilitary forces holding drills in neighboring Shenzhen.
He pioneered a policy of letting police and paramilitary groups simply kill suspected drug dealers and violent criminals — extrajudicially.
Police said the attacker targeted the Qala'a restaurant which is usually frequented by security forces members and paramilitary fighters.
"It caused panic among villagers," he said, adding he had complained to both the army and police paramilitary forces.
The above image is not that of a secretive paramilitary terrorist cell but of a rock 'n' roll band.
Late Wednesday, Iraqi paramilitary forces said they had recaptured a strategic airbase outside the northern city of Tal Afar.
The paramilitary force said Tuesday it has intelligence that al-Baghdadi is somewhere between al Baaj and Tal Afar.
Reuters found that Glocom advertises over 22 radio systems for "military and paramilitary" organisations on its Malaysian website, glocom.com.my.
Iran&aposs paramilitary Revolutionary Guard responded to the attack by launching six missiles into eastern Syria targeting IS militants.
Peter fled Kembong, a stronghold of the independence movement hours after separatists killed four paramilitary gendarmes there last month.
More significantly, he continues to need Russian airpower and largely Shia paramilitary units from Lebanon, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.
This account also marks the first time soldiers and paramilitary police have been implicated by testimony from security personnel.
We often think of the war against radical insurgents as a clash between a state and a paramilitary organization.
Administration along Myanmar's rugged frontier with Bangladesh is largely in the hands of the paramilitary Border Guard Police (BGP).
There have been several shows of what officials call "thunderous power", involving thousands of paramilitary troops parading through streets.
Two civilians and a paramilitary police officer were also killed, and 10 police officers and nine civilians were wounded.
China has also sent clear warning that forceful intervention is possible, with paramilitary forces holding drills in neighbouring Shenzhen.
Worse, Mr Bolsonaro has smiled on militias—paramilitary groups that are often run by current and retired police officers.
Such paramilitary groups—often consisting of former or current policemen, soldiers, or firefighters—are common in Rio de Janeiro.
The body was also given control of the paramilitary People's Armed Police, which in turn absorbed the coast guard.
But real power resides with his deputy, Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, who commands a paramilitary group of perhaps 30,000 men.
Popular Mobilization is mainly a coalition of Shi'ite paramilitary groups armed and trained by Iran to fight Islamic State.
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard forces seized a foreign oil tanker accused of smuggling oil, Iran's state TV reported Thursday.
Reuters found that Glocom advertises over 22016 radio systems for "military and paramilitary" organizations on its Malaysian website, glocom.com.my.
In the world of Marwencol, his attackers take the form of the Schutzstaffel, the paramilitary group in Nazi Germany.
Thousands of paramilitary police have been deployed in the largest city, Srinagar, schools shut and roads and neighbourhoods barricaded.
Thousands of paramilitary police have been deployed in Kashmir's largest city, Srinagar, schools shut and roads and neighbourhoods barricaded.
Search and rescue efforts have been stepped up, with multiple federal agencies, the Nepalese Army, and paramilitary forces mobilized.
Among them are Kurdish and minority Shia paramilitary groups, who are still pushing in from the north and south.
The strike comes less than two weeks after a suicide car bombing killed at least 20193 Indian paramilitary police.
Officials from Pakistan's paramilitary Rangers, which are part of the security forces, did not respond to request for comment.
Those in uniforms displayed an overwhelming cynicism toward the idea that I could have left the paramilitary life behind.
Since taking office, Duterte has encouraged both police and non-official paramilitary gangs to kill drug dealers and users.
In February, a suicide bomber belonging to a Pakistan-based Islamist group killed 40 Indian paramilitary police in Kashmir.
In Shenzhen, paramilitary police marched in and out of the stadium near a retail complex where shoppers milled about.
On Saturday, two militants were killed in one raid in the Gazipur district by the paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion.
RFE/RL journalists first exposed a Russian-supported youth paramilitary camp in Serbia, resulting in its being shut down.
He said: "I will provide all the resources to the police and Carabinieri (paramilitary police) to catch those responsible."
More pressing, as the FARC withdrew from territory, the paramilitary narco-gangs were moving in, killing as they came.
Key to this is what Atomwaffen Division has dubbed "Hate Camp," or paramilitary training like what The Base proposes.
A few weeks later, Colombia woke up to police photos of the paramilitary leaders being boarded onto American planes.
Why she is being detained—or what the purpose or ideology of this paramilitary group is—are not clear.
On his flak jacket was a symbol commonly used by the Azov Battalion, a Ukrainian neo-Nazi paramilitary organization.
Mohamed Hamdan, known as Hemeti, who controls the Rapid Support Forces, a powerful paramilitary group with a notorious reputation.
The Carabinieri paramilitary police said some officers were injured by flying glass when windows in a nearby barracks burst.
An estimated 220,000 people were killed as rebels battled government and paramilitary groups from isolated mountains to city streets.
Furthermore, in the city of Srinagar, there is a heavy presence of paramilitary soldiers, with checkpoints every 200 meters.
Still, the group was able to stage its rally in the presence of dozens of paramilitary and police units.
The regular army will be the "hold" force, while the police move from paramilitary duties to regular civilian policing.
Some threw stones at the security forces, which were made up of paramilitary members, police officers and the army.
Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's paramilitary forces and arguably the second most powerful military official in the country.
But the horrors of war between rebels, paramilitary groups and government troops have left generations of Colombians psychologically traumatized.
Police said the officials of the paramilitary Frontier Corps were patrolling in their official vehicle when they were attacked.
In February, they came close to war following a suicide bombing in Indian Kashmir that killed 40 paramilitary soldiers.
In February, they came close to war following a suicide bombing in Indian Kashmir that killed 40 paramilitary soldiers.
The Orangemen strutted past homes decorated with flags of loyalist paramilitaries and murals showing armed paramilitary men in balaclavas.
Still, in East Belfast, I observed how one paramilitary — the U.V.F. — had the capacity to stir up sectarian passions.
Hezbollah has trained paramilitary groups in Syria and Iraq and inspired other forces such as Yemen's Iran-allied Houthis.
Journalist Omar R. Quraishi shared on Twitter another video clip of Nisar flanked by several police and paramilitary commandos.
First, an end to repression and the use of paramilitary or goon squads to beat up or murder students.
In addition to Mr. Osorio Rojas, a paramilitary hit man named Pelusa was also frequently mentioned by the workers.
Many Kashmiris loathe the paramilitary unit, viewing it as an occupying force recruited from across India to suppress them.
He rammed a car full of explosives into an Indian convoy, ripping apart a bus packed with paramilitary troops.
Paramilitary attacks are increasing again, fueled by economic stagnation, a leadership vacuum and the impact of a looming Brexit.
Abdul Mahdi's decree integrates paramilitary units into the military and forces groups to pick between political or military activity.
It went on and on, zealously and sometimes brutally enforced by the morality police and the paramilitary Basij forces.
I watched members of the Basij, the paramilitary arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, beat and stab civilians.
Tensions between India and Pakistan have been soaring since a suicide bomber killed 42 Indian paramilitary troops on Feb.
Now he's a politician as paramilitary groups backed by Iran have doubled their number of seats in Iraq's parliament.
Turkish paramilitary police officers carry a body from the beach near the Aegean town of Ayvacik, Canakkale, Turkey, on Jan.
A paramilitary police officer said the workers discovered the coins in the cellar after rattling a mysterious, shell-shaped container.
China has also sent a clear warning that forceful intervention is possible, with paramilitary forces holding drills in neighboring Shenzhen.
The lines between paramilitary and "legitimate" political institution weren't always so easy to draw on either side of the divide.
There paramilitary prisoners from both republican and loyalist sides of the troubles were able to organize themselves within the system.
Already reports are emerging of abuse and torture of residents of the Falluja area detained by Shia-led paramilitary forces.
Beijing has sent a clear warning that forceful intervention is possible, with paramilitary forces holding drills just over the border.
Things have developed to where the new criminal landscape includes paramilitary background, and there's been a militarization of the police.
The paramilitary Rangers, however, were unleashed on Karachi's criminal gangs in 2013 and later started targeting corrupt politicians as well.
If you look at our seven-inch EP trilogy back covers, you already see us in kind of paramilitary uniforms.
They have turned a blind eye to abuses by local militias and a controversial paramilitary group known as the Liyu.
Al-Abadi&aposs "Victory" bloc took 42 and a coalition of government and Iranian-backed paramilitary forces came in second.
Paramilitary guards and massive gates hint at CICIR's (unacknowledged) affiliation with the Ministry of State Security, China's main intelligence service.
The Islamic Republic's political structure muddles who wields power between paramilitary forces within the Guard and the country's civilian government.
UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said screening was legitimate but should not be done by paramilitary groups.
She was taken into an interrogation room where there was a female police officer, a masked paramilitary and a civilian.
At least one paramilitary group, the Oath Keepers, has called on members to monitor voting sites for signs of fraud.
Many of the women have, like Yeimy, had family members killed by the FARC rebels or right-wing paramilitary fighters.
Their current structure as paramilitary organizations with little meaningful external oversight allows them to operate outside of normal democratic controls.
The model is Karachi, the capital of Sindh province, where the paramilitary Rangers were given powers to deal with violence.
The elite responded by organizing their own groups to oppose the rebels, which soon transformed into right-wing paramilitary groups.
The explosion, at a site operated by a Shia paramilitary group, is thought to have been caused by a fire.
Members undergo secretive paramilitary training and aggressively use social media and memes as a recruitment tool to propagate its mission.
The result has been a seven-week cycle of violent protests and retaliatory action by the police and paramilitary forces.
That amounts to about 5,000 guerrillas, gang members, paramilitary fighters and other criminals, including FARC dissidents who renounced the peace.
This party is headed by Barzani and his family, who control the KRG's foreign policy and their own peshmerga paramilitary.
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized a "foreign vessel" in the Strait of Hormuz, the state-run Mehr news agency reported.
By contrast, civil anti-paramilitary statues have a proven track record of disrupting extremist organizations, and are constitutional to boot.
And criminal gangs whose leaders emerged from right-wing paramilitary groups which demobilised a decade ago are growing in strength.
Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), a paramilitary force under Bangladesh's Ministry of Home Affairs, also detained two traffickers.
He was clearly not a protester and not a threat to the soldiers and paramilitary police hundreds of yards away.
A paramilitary police officer stands guard in front of a portrait of the late Chairman Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Square.
The pro-government groups are a mix of members of the Nicaraguan National Police, plain-clothes activists and paramilitary forces.
The division chief, Hank Crumpton, was also a CTC veteran, having led paramilitary operations against the Taliban after 9/11.
The vehicles belong to the Chinese People's Armed Police Force, a paramilitary police force responsible for riot control and counterterrorism.
The depot belonged to one of the Shi'ite paramilitary groups of the Popular Mobilization Force (PMF), a police officer said.
Defense attorney Kelly O'Connell has said the charges against Hopkins were unrelated to the paramilitary group's actions at the border.
On Wednesday, Renato Saccone, the prefect of Milan, dispatched two paramilitary Carabinieri officers to guard Ms. Segre at public events.
The arrest came in the form of a raid carried out by Bangladesh's super paramilitary force, AK-47s in hand.
Open fighting between paramilitary groups loyal to each side of the conflict ended with the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
I should have been unsurprised to hear that tactical forces—paramilitary units—hire Simon to put soldiers through this routine.
Mr. Kamal parted with Mr. Hussain in March, a move widely believed to have the support of the paramilitary Rangers.
For years, the primary job of the C.I.A.'s paramilitary officers in the country has been training the Afghan militias.
Last June, Poland announced a drive to gather 35,000 volunteers for a paramilitary defense force to guard against Russian aggression.
In 20183, the United States began backing the contras, the right-wing paramilitary opposition to Nicaragua's left-wing Sandinista government.
The Rapid Support Forces, the notorious paramilitary group that led last Monday's bloodshed, has an iron grip on the city.
Campaigns by the superintendent's forces, along with paramilitary groups like the Sindh Rangers, began turning the balance of power around.
By the start of June, the government unleashed a wave of terror, inflicted by riot police, snipers, and paramilitary gunmen.
Under the British-backed monarchy in the 1940s, the Egyptian Brotherhood was one of several factions to create paramilitary wings.
The ex-rebels have repeatedly complained that demobilizing has left them defenseless against the paramilitary gangs still roaming the countryside.
And security remained a constant issue: at several moments, the approach of paramilitary and criminal groups forced him to leave.
But in 1963 in Quebec, members of a separatist paramilitary group stuck dynamite under the dress of her local statue.
Demonstrations by citizens, crackdowns by the country's National Police and armed paramilitary groups, and violence have marked the weeks since.
More than 250 people have been killed in clashes with security forces and paramilitary groups since protests began on Oct.
In February, the rivals nearly went to war again, after a suicide attack in Indian Kashmir killed 40 paramilitary troopers.
Foreign officials are also concerned that Beijing will order a crackdown on Hong Kong protesters by military or paramilitary forces.
Asked about the Quds Force, an Iranian paramilitary unit, he has expressed his view of "the Kurds," an ethnic group.
Before enlisting, it said, he expressed a desire to travel to Ukraine to fight with a far-right paramilitary group.
Supporters of Iranian-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups stormed the U.S. embassy's perimeter and hurled rocks in two days of protests.
Right-wing paramilitary groups, formed in the 1980s to fight leftist rebels, were financed by drug traffickers, ranchers and landowners.
It's more of a political step than a financial one, or one that will weaken it from a paramilitary perspective.
Authorities also have deployed additional police and members of the Basij, a volunteer organization affiliated with Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Among those involved are members of the Revolutionary Guard, a paramilitary force answerable only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Three decades of armed conflict in Northern Ireland ended only in 1998, and paramilitary violence has intermittently flared ever since.
In Venezuela, these armed paramilitary groups are known as "colectivos," and typically have their roots in fervently pro-Chávez circles.
This account also marks the first time soldiers and paramilitary police have been implicated by testimony from security personnel themselves.
The area is also patrolled by some 1,100 Spanish federal police officers and the Guardia Civil, a paramilitary police force.
More than 40 paramilitary officers were killed, and Indian officials say they believe the bomb maker slipped in from Pakistan.
In the 242 elections, more than 22014,24 federal police and paramilitary personnel were transported across India by 2000 special trains.
In the attempt to crush the Bengali independence movement, the Pakistani Army let loose paramilitary forces which systematically murdered civilians.
The decades of violence, which included terror attacks launched by both nationalist and unionist paramilitary groups, claimed nearly 3,600 lives.
The government, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the renegade paramilitary forces that control large areas of the Colombian countryside, and the paramilitary elements that have embedded themselves in all branches of the ruling class—their internecine struggle for power has resulted in misery for countless people who have been killed, "disappeared," and displaced.
And in Mosul, they don't have the direct assistance of the Shia-dominated paramilitary units that were an important factor elsewhere.
Rights groups said his administration had set out to provoke ethnic bloodshed and had ordered a paramilitary force to attack minorities.
The Indian government holds the group responsible for the February suicide bombing in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 40 paramilitary soldiers.
Asaib Ahl al-Haq is part of the PMF, an umbrella grouping of mostly Iran-backed and trained Shi'ite paramilitary groups.
The bodies were taken to an unknown destination by pickup trucks belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the medics said.
Uribe and his family have long been accused of paramilitary involvement by the opposition, but previous investigations have borne little fruit.
In the last year alone, 123 new armed groups have sprung up, bringing the total number of paramilitary groups to 127.
In the last year alone, 32 new armed groups have sprung up, bringing the total number of paramilitary groups to 127.
Residents in Soura say that dozens of people have been injured in clashes with the paramilitary police over the past week.
Thousands of paramilitary troops have since paraded through three cities in Xinjiang in shows of "thunderous power" aimed at Uighur terrorists.
It also involves 14,000 members of paramilitary units -- 4003,000 Sunni fighters, and 5,000 from other minorities including Christians, Turkmen and Yazidis.
BHUBANESWAR (Reuters) - Maoist rebels on Saturday ambushed a paramilitary patrol in India's eastern Chhattisgarh state, killing 11 policemen, regional police said.
That's when Prigozhin, nicknamed "Putin's chef" for his catering business, stepped forward with money, training, paramilitary support and other survival help.
He and his family have long been accused of paramilitary involvement by the opposition, but previous investigations have borne little fruit.
The special police force also learned that the children of some German families living in the country were undergoing paramilitary training.
However, in 2001, Palij admitted his involvement with Hitler's paramilitary organization and his 1943 training at the SS camp in Trawniki.
An Indian paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) officer was killed and another wounded, according to Imtiyaz Ahmad, Indian senior police superintendant.
But a spokesman for the paramilitary Rangers force and a senior police officer denied that any of their members had fired.
Other rebel groups and, above all, state-aligned paramilitary groups and the state forces themselves, have all contributed to the bloodshed.
The DEA described the Zetas as "the most technologically advanced, sophisticated and violent of these paramilitary enforcement groups," Insight Crime notes.
The code is implemented by a roving company of administrators, backed up by an enormous number of police and paramilitary forces.
Whoever assassinates this 50-year-old activist can claim a $26,500 bounty offered by the Urabeños, a right-wing paramilitary group.
State and paramilitary forces killed roughly 3,20043 party members, at least 457 of them in Afranio Solano's home department of Antioquia.
A chief concern now is that paramilitary forces, like the Urabeños who threatened Solano, will target activists and demobilized FARC guerrillas.
Following the violence, many of Hussain's top lieutenants, including Sattar, were arrested by the paramilitary Rangers force, interrogated overnight and released.
Besides local officials and police officers, Duterte's list included two retired police generals, soldiers, paramilitary members, judges and a former lawmaker.
That would soon transform them from boy scouts and campfire girls to a paramilitary outfit bent on taking down Putin's opponents.
About 100,000 troops were active in the liberation of Mosul, including Iraqi Security Forces, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, paramilitary and Sunni fighters.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri issued a statement saying the border visit by a paramilitary in uniform violated Lebanese law.
They are still capable of deadly counter-attacks on the tens of thousands of soldiers and paramilitary groups arrayed against them.
Twenty-five states have anti-paramilitary activity statutes that prohibit group training in firearms or explosives in furtherance of civil disturbance.
A rise in tensions four years ago led to the establishment of the Independent Reporting Commission (IRC) to monitor paramilitary groups.
That airstrike came in response to a car bombing in February that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police in Kashmir.
That was in response to a car combing earlier this month that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police in Kashmir.
Pakistan is currently working on a fence for its 870-mile border with Afghanistan, as well as a 50,000 paramilitary force.
Chinese paramilitary troops have been training this week in Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, in a clear warning to the protesters.
Two more civilians were hit by splinters and two paramilitary soldiers were also wounded in the exchange of fire, he added.
Kirkuk oil exports stopped in October, when Iraqi government troops backed by Shi'ite paramilitary forces dislodged Kurdish fighters from the region.
Pakistani paramilitary forces said they killed 34 members of the rebel United Baluch Army during an operation there ten days ago.
The frontier city of Quetta was also rocked by three suicide bombings aimed at Pakistani police and paramilitary soldiers on Tuesday.
The U.S. State Department called for restraint and said the country was deeply concerned at Chinese paramilitary movements near the border.
They also agreed to a six-month timetable to abandon arms, despite concerns that they might be hunted by paramilitary groups.
Amiri wants his ally Falih al-Fayyadh, former head of an Iran-backed paramilitary force, for the position of interior minister.
Paramilitary troops are also taking part in an operation against politically powerful criminal gangs in the southern port city of Karachi.
Kurdish internal security force the Asayish, in a statement, blamed a Syrian government-allied paramilitary group for carrying out the attack.
Wagner Group is a Russian paramilitary organization with contractors involved in conflicts all over the world, including the Syrian Civil War.
Hernán Giraldo Serna has gone from being a fearsome paramilitary commander in Colombia to a docile prisoner in the United States.
The paramilitary leader, Don Berna, not only threw out some names but agreed to reveal them to Colombian prosecutors, he said.
The Michigan Militia, in contrast, was a true paramilitary organization that had upward of, claims of, 50,20143 members at its height.
The elite responded by organizing private "self-defense" organizations to oppose the rebels, which soon transformed into right-wing paramilitary groups.
Romero consistently denounced violence by the Salvadoran military and paramilitary against civilians and urged the international community to stop the oppression.
By his time, the conflict had hardened into a three-way war between Marxist guerrilla groups, paramilitary organizations and the government.
He once led a feared paramilitary group that guarded bridges over the Ibar River, which divides the Albanian and Serb areas.
He said Duque had ordered that 200 men be trained in three camps in Colombia to carry out paramilitary terrorist actions.
Videos have been released showing Chinese soldiers practising riot suppression and paramilitary police massing just across the border from Hong Kong.
The paramilitary forces overwhelmed the small and lightly armed battalion of Dutch soldiers, whose pleas for airstrikes and reinforcements went unheard.
Iraq is allied with both countries and hosts thousands of American troops, as well as powerful paramilitary forces allied with Iran.
Many point to a misjudged election she called in 2017 as being behind her downfall when she lost her paramilitary majority.
I'd also say that, sure, not having Soleimani around is great, but Iran's paramilitary force is not a one-man show.
The group holds so-called "hate camps" where members receive paramilitary training and meet other members, including those from other countries.
The Indian government has blamed a Pakistan-based terrorist organization for the attack, which killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary personnel.
Opposition members said members of colectivos, pro-government paramilitary units, were sent to make sure Perez didn't leave the house alive.
As the head of the Quds, or Jersualem, Force of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Soleimani led all of its expeditionary forces.
He has been accused of leading a prominent paramilitary force that left a trail of human rights abuse allegations in Darfur.
This is quite vivid through the repressive measures carried out by the IRGC paramilitary Basij, particularly targeting Iranian women and youth.
Paramilitary troops were called to help in the rescue effort, and security offices in the city were placed on high alert.
That includes Latin America, where the US has tracked Iran and its proxies, particularly Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah, for some time.
One of Souleimani's most successful proxy projects was the formation of Hezbollah, a Shiite paramilitary group and political party in Lebanon.
Technically, her status as head of the paramilitary arm of the CIA is comparable to Soleimani's leadership of the Quds force.
Gun control and ending paramilitary activity One of Herring's main goals, he said, is trying to tighten laws on gun ownership.
Soleimani's Quds Force and its paramilitary proxies in Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen have ample means to mount a multi-pronged response.
Soleimani's Quds Force and its paramilitary proxies in Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen have ample means to mount a multi-pronged response.
It succeeded in getting Colombia to reintroduce extradition but also contributed to a dramatic increase in coca cultivation and paramilitary violence.
A leader of the Arakan National Party, U Aung Win, said it was now necessary to form a special paramilitary force.
However, the existence of the group became more difficult to conceal after paramilitary contractors were killed in US airstrikes in Syria.
That new division, many fear, could create ideal conditions for smuggling, and potentially provoke a resurgence of paramilitary intimidation and violence.
The police lack paramilitary capability, army retention rates are dropping, and the Afghan air force is still largely a hollow shell.
Colombia's right-wing paramilitary groups, which battled the ELN and FARC for decades, are also recruiting migrants, the military officials said.
They were modeled on Hezbollah, the Shi'ite paramilitary force Iran created in Lebanon – but in Iraq they were four times bigger.
It is a paramilitary group drawn primarily from the janjaweed militia that fought for the government in the conflict in Darfur.
Today one might have the impression that paramilitary groups are not merely acting as a parallel state — they are the state.
Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim paramilitary groups backed by Iran already operate inside Syrian territory against the Sunni Muslim militants of Islamic State.
Paramilitary groups in Colombia - originally funded by landowners to protect themselves from rebels - became violent organizations connected to drug trafficking and massacres.
Tehran is now believed to command up to 80,000 fighters in Syria — members of Shiite militias and paramilitary forces loyal to Iran.
The FARC, which began as a rebellion fighting rural poverty, has battled a dozen governments as well as right-wing paramilitary groups.
They spent nine days with paramilitary militia members patrolling the border, migrants crossing it, and volunteers ensuring they make it across alive.
The shelling of the ethnically-mixed town happened after many of its Kurdish population was displaced following clashes with Turkmen paramilitary groups.
The chupacabra is a way indigenous people of the western hemisphere have come to rationalize military and paramilitary activity, science and technology.
Tensions are already high between Kurdish peshmerga fighters and Shi'ite paramilitary forces, even though they cooperated in the fight against Islamic State.
A heavy paramilitary presence was reported at poll stations as Gambians cast their votes using the country's unique marbles and drums system.
The structures may have housed officials responsible for overseeing the production of food for a paramilitary force more than 4,1 years ago.
Charcoal operations are a lucrative source of income for paramilitary groups, because most of the Congo relies on wood-fuels for cooking.
The gap gained widespread attention after a paramilitary group released videos in April showing its members stopping hundreds of illegal border crossers.
Poland's Military profile classes, a collaboration among schools, the Polish army, state agencies, and private paramilitary organizations, have been around since 30603.
Fighting with them are the Popular Mobilization Units, largely Shiite paramilitary forces that include Sunnis, Christians and other ethnic and religious groups.
To underline this point, on June 3rd a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) started slaughtering peaceful protesters (see article).
About 220,000 people died and millions were displaced in decades of fighting among leftist guerillas, paramilitary groups, criminal organizations and government forces.
Horace Mann, who was a superintendent in Massachusetts, financed a trip to Prussia and modeled the common school after their paramilitary system.
As the Amhara region's security chief, General Asamnew strengthened its paramilitary forces, creating a special police unit that answered directly to him.
Organizers of Sudan's pro-democracy protests say they will regroup and fight on after a deadly crackdown this week by paramilitary groups.
The greatest threat to Israel is no longer conventional armies on its borders but Hizbullah, an Iranian-backed paramilitary group in Lebanon.
The new boss of PDVSA, Manuel Quevedo, is a general of the national guard, the paramilitary police who beat down the protests.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to protesters to exercise restraint and follow the law as a heavy paramilitary presence was deployed Wednesday.
More than 42,000 security personnel in Nepal have been mobilized for rescue and relief efforts -- including the police, army, and paramilitary forces.
Rebels groups and criminal gangs, many of which include former paramilitary fighters, sometimes fight for control of trafficking routes and drug crops.
Yesterday, authorities said they quelled an anti-government paramilitary attack at a military base that led to the deaths of two people.
The National Corps, including its paramilitary wing, Azov, has already apparently forged ties with some far-right groups in the United States.
As many as three people have been killed and up to 60 injured, in ongoing clashes between protestors and local paramilitary forces.
Other land was seized by paramilitary forces with farmers often pressured by the armed groups to sell out at cut-rate prices.
Outside the city, Kurdish peshmerga forces are holding territory to the northeast and mainly Shi'ite paramilitary forces are deployed to the west.
I became good friends with people from a republican paramilitary group called the INLA, whose members had a lot of Marxist beliefs.
Still, Serbian paramilitary forces burned down 218 mosques as part of their war against Kosovo's ethnic Albanians, who are 95 percent Muslim.
His administration also considers as a threat Tehran's support for groups like Lebanon's Hezbollah, Yemen's Houthi rebels and some Iraqi paramilitary groups.
When fighting resumed Monday afternoon, both sides began firing with heavy weapons, and Pakistani authorities reported that two paramilitary soldiers were wounded.
In addition, both Texas and Arizona have criminal statutes barring private armed militias, while California and New Mexico ban private paramilitary activity.
The westward road that links Mosul to Syrian territory was cut in November by the Shi'ite paramilitary known as Popular Mobilization forces.
Outside Beit El, a group of paramilitary Israeli police had driven back hundreds of Palestinians who were throwing rocks and burning tyres.
Enlisting the aid of a paramilitary biker gang known as the Dreadnoks, Cobra Commander creates a punk-metal front band, Cold Slither.
Unable to put down the insurgency, the government turned in the countryside to paramilitary groups run by men who became regional warlords.
It's now long since absorbed into the government as a formalized paramilitary group -- under the new name of the Rapid Support Forces.
Reporters on the visit to the northern areas would be provided security by Myanmar's paramilitary Border Guard Police force, Thet Swe said.
A car bombing by JeM, a militant group based in Pakistan, killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police in Kashmir last month.
That airstrike came in response to a car combing earlier this month that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police in Kashmir.
About 29,000 people died and millions were displaced in decades of fighting among leftist guerillas, paramilitary groups, criminal organizations and government forces.
He leads Sudan's feared Rapid Support Forces, a heavily-armed paramilitary unit that numbers in the tens of thousands and controls Khartoum.
Colombia&aposs conflict between leftist rebels, the state and paramilitary groups left at least 260,000 dead, some 60,000 missing and millions displaced.
My life began to fall apart in my first year when my birth certificate was confiscated during a paramilitary operation against Rohingya.
The attack, in which 40 Indian paramilitary troops were killed, was claimed by the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militant group.
Colombia extraditions to the United States were half as frequent in 2015 — 109 — as the year the paramilitary leaders were sent away.
Many crime gang members are former paramilitary fighters who returned to armed groups after a demobilization process more than a decade ago.
In their place, a mix of drug traffickers, paramilitary groups and breakaway rebel factions that rejected the peace agreement have taken over.
The demonstrations have led to deadly clashes with police and paramilitary forces, killing nearly 300 people, including several officers and many students.
To put it another way: What's the most visually incongruous place to find a bunch of paramilitary guys trying to wreak havoc?
Kurdish forces handed over Sinjar without a fight to the Lalesh Brigades, a Yazidi militia backed by Baghdad's Shiite paramilitary forces (PMF).
I was very focused on the story of Iván Velásquez, who had followed the links between congress and these paramilitary death squads.
Dozens of districts settled by squatters decades ago, and long neglected by the state, are controlled by drug traffickers and paramilitary groups.
The main Russian paramilitary contracting organization is the Wagner Group, known by the nickname of the retired Russian officer who leads it.
But hours later that optimism was challenged when paramilitary forces fired tear gas at protesters, in an apparent attempt to disperse them.
General Hamdan leads the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary force created by rebranding the janjaweed militias that conducted the genocide in Darfur.
One account, shared by the writer Franklin Foer, has paramilitary soldiers sitting in the stands and pointing loaded guns at the field.
The government's response to the protests came in four stages, starting with a crackdown using a mix of police and paramilitary forces.
The roadblock in Las Maderas lasted a month before riot police and paramilitary members organized an assault against it, on June 10.
These fighting forces include Shia-majority paramilitary units known as Popular Mobilization Units, or PMUs — some of which have ties to Iran.
Many former guerrillas have returned to fighting, while other criminal and paramilitary groups have expanded their control over parts of the country.
At the same time, paramilitary gangs have reportedly killed at least 500 activists and community leaders since the peace agreement was reached.
There were several guests inside the paramilitary base at the time, and security services evacuated them before moving in on the militants.
Colombia's constitutional court made a similar move for the Atrato River basin, where riparian communities face illegal gold mining and paramilitary violence.
During the two-hour hearing, dozens of cars from Sudan's paramilitary forces surrounded the court and armed vehicles closed off surrounding roads.
The People's Armed Police Force is the 1.5 million-member paramilitary force the government regularly deploys to quell protests within its borders.
The rapidly-modernized PAP is the mainland's core paramilitary and anti-riot force and operates separately from China's People's Liberation Army (PLA).
First, the prosecution of many crimes, most of them committed by ETA but some carried out by security forces and paramilitary groups.
The continued success of professional security services, rather than Iran-backed paramilitary groups, will allow for Iraq to guarantee its own security.
Social leaders and activists calling for land restitution and human rights have been the targets of violence by neo-paramilitary criminal bands.
Police officers and paramilitary troops were called in, but some Muslims said the security forces didn't intervene to stop the Hindu mobs.
One woman, no softy, had been a runner in pre-state Palestine for the underground paramilitary outfit known as the Stern Gang.
" Iraqi security forces regained control of the area around the US Embassy on Wednesday after paramilitary groups asked their supporters to "withdraw.
He then carried out a campaign to militarize the white-power movement and conducted paramilitary training in the woods of North Carolina.
Russia has been seen bolstering its presence in Libya, deploying paramilitary forces there to support Haftar, according to the US State Department.
Photographs on Chinese news websites showed armored vehicles and paramilitary troops massed outside the exhibition center in the aftermath of the violence.
"Four of our soldiers have been killed in a terrorist attack," Khan Wasey, the spokesman for the paramilitary force said on Wednesday.
Its activists operated with discipline and clarity, training in paramilitary camps and undertaking assassinations, mercenary soldiering, armed robbery, counterfeiting and weapons trafficking.
Police and paramilitary forces patrolled the streets in far greater numbers on Wednesday, and swathes of the riot-hit areas were deserted.
It is also that the cartels have used their billions to build paramilitary forces that lay waste to chunks of the country.
A third C.I.A. paramilitary officer, George A. Whitney, 38, who was killed in December in the Jalalabad area, also received a star.
"If (US troops) don't leave, then they will be considered occupation forces," said Iran-backed paramilitary commander Qais Khazali on Sunday night.
Washington on Friday imposed sanctions on three Iranian-backed Iraqi paramilitary leaders who it accused of directing the killing of Iraqi protesters.
Those Uighurs lived in Tumxuk, a city in Xinjiang that is ringed by paramilitary forces and is home to two internment camps.
His ordering and wearing of a captain's uniform from the Fruit of Islam, the group's paramilitary wing, was worth an entire memo.
Iraqi paramilitary groups deny any role in the deaths of protesters, who have demonstrated against the government for more than two months.
Iraqi paramilitary groups deny any role in the deaths of protesters, who have demonstrated against the government for more than two months.
Hedayatullah was described as a member of the National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan's paramilitary intelligence service, who was stationed in the village.
He added that the raiders had been trained at "paramilitary camps in Colombia" and had received assistance from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
According to FBI investigators, Smith said on Facebook that he was interested in joining the Azov Battalion, a paramilitary group in Ukraine.
French police officers, and particularly the heavily armored paramilitary anti-riot CRS force, have historically been granted wide latitude in suppressing demonstrations.
Two paramilitary police officers and Soe Chay, the retired soldier, said the troops belonged to the 11th infantry regiment of this division.
But the seemingly inexorable success of Soleimani's paramilitary strategy – permanently mobilized militias armed with precision missiles and drones – came at a cost.
They're not scared by reports that the People's Armed Police, a paramilitary force, had been temporarily deployed across the border in Shenzhen.
Violence by Protestant loyalist groups has dropped since the Ulster Volunteer Paramilitary group went on a six-week killing rampage in 2005.
But the fallout of Thursday's not guilty verdict could have troubling implications for the rise of paramilitary groups in the United States.
A suicide car bombing by Pakistan-based militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police on Feb. 14.
The paramilitary Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force is leading the mission to bring the bodies to the town of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand state.
An advertisement in the September 2012 edition of the Asian Military Review said Glocom develops radios and equipment for "military and paramilitary organisations".
Vigilante groups have continued to patrol the border in recent decades, although in a less organized and paramilitary manner, compared to previous years.
Indian paramilitary troops in riot gear arrived in strength at first light, said Shakeel Ahmad, a resident of Nowhatta in the Srinagar district.
But Uribe is hated in equal numbers by those who allege he is corrupt and has ties to far-right paramilitary death squads.
In Iraq, Islamic State faced the army and the Shi'ite paramilitary groups, backed both by the U.S.-led international coalition and by Iran.
But scenes of paramilitary police and armored vehicles lining Zhenjiang&aposs streets further exacerbated the fraught relationship between the government and disgruntled veterans.
The two residences are located near a series of structures called galleries, which may have housed a paramilitary force at Giza, Lehner said.
" When told that paramilitary police officers had said they received orders to "clear" Inn Din's Rohingya hamlets, he replied, "We have to verify.
In Iraq, the military and paramilitary forces have driven ISIS out of Tikrit, Baiji and Ramadi, and are pummeling the extremists in Falluja.
In 1989, a paramilitary group allied with the government rolled into the poor, conflict-ridden coastal town of Buenaventura, and killed her husband.
Footage of paramilitary police in Shenzhen training for anti-riot deployment heightened anxiety that direct intervention by China's armed forces would be inevitable.
The paramilitary commander is said to be one of the richest men in Sudan, having strong-armed his way into the gold business.
Iraq's paramilitary groups on Wednesday blamed a series of recent blasts at their weapons depots and bases on the United States and Israel.
He "went from his sleep to the handcuffs of the Carabinieri paramilitary police," Colonel Lorenzo Falferi told reporters, according to the Associated Press.
More than 100 officers from counterterrorism and paramilitary units are protecting the South Jakarta District Court on Friday along with numerous plainclothes police.
Some 245,000 people were killed or disappeared during the 1960-1996 conflict, with most of those blamed on the army or paramilitary groups.
The article profiled Captain George Whitney, 38, a Bates College alumnus and a C.I.A paramilitary officer who was killed in December in Afghanistan.
On June 5, paramilitary forces attacked protestors and killed at least 100 civilians, raped women and threw the bodies into the Nile River.
Kurds showed their military capability by joining Iraqi government troops and Iranian-backed paramilitary forces to drive Islamic State militants out of Mosul.
Troops responded when one of the attackers detonated his explosive at the entrance, Khan Wasey, a local paramilitary spokesman said, and gunfire ensued.
But America also outsources the job to regional allies, such as Kurdish rebels in Syria and secret paramilitary units made up of Afghans.
The other scenario would see the armed forces, police, paramilitary groups and possibly even guerrilla forces prevent the aid from crossing the border.
They were forced to abandon their homes and livelihoods as paramilitary groups, guerrilla fighters, and the military fought for control over their land.
Opposition leaders have understandably and vocally criticized these groups as illegal paramilitary bands armed by the government to suppress legitimate protests and dissent.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington on Monday condemned attacks by paramilitary police against university students, journalists and clergy across Nicaragua, the U.S. State Department said.
Washington is pressing Iraq's government to rein in Iran-backed paramilitary groups which it says pose a threat to U.S. interests in Iraq.
More than 220,000 people have been killed in a conflict that pitted the military against the FARC, ELN and right-wing paramilitary armies.
On the streets of both Nicaragua and Tunisia, police and paramilitary gangs used violence against peaceful protestors, contributing to a general security breakdown.
The police could be seen carrying out crowd-control exercises, and more than 100 dark-painted paramilitary vehicles filled the stadium's parking lots.
Retaking Hawija raises the specter of a large military build-up of Iraqi troops -- and their paramilitary counterparts -- just outside the Kurdish outpost.
He also attempted to recruit people from the site to the unnamed fascist paramilitary group he was hoping to start in the northeast.
The stadium parking lot was filled with more than 100 dark-painted paramilitary vehicles, including troop trucks, armored personnel carriers, buses and jeeps.
City officials are arguing the group is a paramilitary organization and, as such, would violate Ohio law by holding a military-style rally.
There is strong evidence that the eight suspects were involved in a murder conspiracy bearing the characteristics of a paramilitary death squad operation.
Since 2010 the Mossos have had counter-terrorism responsibilities, which they share with Spain's national police and the Civil Guard, a paramilitary corps.
Although Mauritius has no regular armed forces of its own, it has police forces and a paramilitary unit called the Special Mobile Force.
Some paramilitary groups still retain coercive control over certain communities, and 95 percent of social housing is segregated along religious lines, Sheridan said.
A new paramilitary group, known as the Rapid Support Force, was created out of the remnants of the Janjaweed tribal militias in Darfur.
Now the White House must decide whether it is prepared to bring an end to the regime that created the hardline paramilitary organization.
And Vzdor Kysuce is organizing and training paramilitary groups that it says would patrol the streets if migrants ever did appear in Slovakia.
When she was 16, Weir briefly joined the Ulster Defence Association, a unionist paramilitary group responsible for over 400 deaths during The Troubles.
When Smith got up to speak, he framed Axon not as a supplier of tactical paramilitary gear but as an agent of reform.
Even now, he relies on military, paramilitary and intelligence support from Cuba as well as Russia, which stations troops and missiles in Venezuela.
Kojo is one of the villages recaptured over the past few days by Popular Mobilisation, an Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitary force trained by Iran.
Cossacks are an ethnic and cultural group in the region that have formed militias and paramilitary troops during the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.
In the 1980s hundreds of former FARC soldiers were killed by paramilitary groups when they laid down their weapons to join democratic politics.
Colombia's right-wing armed groups were officially disbanded between 2003 and 2006 and the government does not recognize their heirs as paramilitary organizations.
In real life, Gates was at his professional nadir, fearing his violent, racist, paramilitary vision of American policing to be under existential threat.
Indeed, his devices were so brutally effective that profilers looking at the case suspected he'd had some sort of military or paramilitary training.
These tensions came to a violent head during a period referred to as the "troubles," which saw paramilitary groups fighting in the streets.
But for years, Mr. Uribe carved out an exception for the paramilitary men, saying he wanted to give Justice and Peace a chance.
The C.I.A.'s paramilitary division, which is taking on the assignment, numbers only in the hundreds and is deployed all over the world.
As students marched in the capital, Managua, and in provincial towns, armed paramilitary groups known as "shock forces" or "mobs" began attacking protesters.
Their leader, a giant former kickboxer and member of a paramilitary group, says heroin usage has become rampant in the last five years.
Members of the paramilitary police looted Rohingya property, including motorcycles and cows, some of which were later taken by the military, Reuters reported.
Analysts commonly suggest these names also help the government downplay the group's origins in the paramilitary death-squad federation, which demobilized in 20113.
The doctors' group said on Wednesday afternoon that 40 bodies had been pulled from the Nile, reportedly by paramilitary groups, after the attack.
The stadium hosted the 1936 Olympics, Nazi paramilitary training, and postwar refugee camps, then reopened in 2004 as a sports and music venue.
This February, his suicide attack on a paramilitary convoy killed 40 Indian policemen, and took India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
Disturbing new information emerged in the case of the paramilitary leader in New Mexico whose group had been detaining migrant families at gunpoint.
"At many points legal authorities have been tacitly accepting of paramilitary actions on the border or direct participants in them," Ms. Belew said.
Venezuelan Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said on state television that the two men were leaders of a "Colombian paramilitary organization" called the Rastrojos.
DUBLIN — A Protestant paramilitary leader and police informant from Belfast pleaded guilty to more than 200 terrorist crimes on Friday, including five murders.
The men set up clandestine training camps for paramilitary fighters and acted as chief organizers, paymasters and suppliers for those units, he said.
"In this environment, economic competition, influence campaigns, paramilitary actions, cyber intrusions, and political warfare will likely become more prevalent," writes Navy Rear Adm.
The Iranian government immediately deployed the police, the Revolutionary Guards, and plain-clothes agents from the Basij paramilitary force to quell the dissent.
Alongside state agents, companies and paramilitary groups were behind many cases of attacks and intimidation against human rights activists, according to the report.
Bagga said that the federal government, which controls Delhi police, moved to deploy paramilitary forces in order to bring the situation under control.
The militias were in disarray after a U.S. air strike killed Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis on Jan. 3.
This puts Washington in the unenviable position of working with the Iraqi army while guarding against possible threats from other Iraqi paramilitary forces.
For days, before the election, Britain's tabloid press was crammed with lurid details of his coterie's alleged associations with paramilitary and Islamist organizations.
As the leader of the Iranian paramilitary group known as the Quds Force, Soleimani trained militants who attacked the US with sophisticated explosives.
Sistani's Friday sermon heaps pressure on Abdul Mahdi, who was brought to power with the backing of Iran-aligned political and paramilitary groups.
The Zetas originated from a team of élite commandos who defected from Mexico's armed forces, so the cartel was prone to paramilitary affectation.
In 2012, Uribe accused Cepeda of orchestrating a plot to tie him to right-wing paramilitary groups during jail visits to former fighters.
Sistani's Friday sermon heaps pressure on Abdul Mahdi, who was brought to power with the backing of Iran-aligned political and paramilitary groups.
Formed in 2014 to fight ISIS, the PMF is a Shia paramilitary force made up of former militias with close ties to Iran.
Shia paramilitary leaders, an important political force in Iraq, are demanding the "immediate withdrawal" of US forces in the aftermath of Soleimani's killing.
The legal crops stretch out for 200 acres of flatlands that include a mass grave site where paramilitary fighters buried scores of victims.
His father had been killed by Al Qaeda, he said, and one of his brothers had been kidnapped by a Shiite paramilitary group.
Iran fired the missiles in retaliation for a drone strike that killed the elite Quds Force paramilitary commander Qassem Soleimani, earlier in January.
He had been a gadfly, writing unfavorably of the volunteer paramilitary battalions in the east and of the oligarchs ensnared in corruption scandals.
Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella of mostly Shi'ite paramilitary groups backed by Iran, are influential in parliament and have allies in government.
The crisis began earlier this month when a suicide car bomb attack in Pulwama, in Indian-administered Kashmir, killed 40 Indian paramilitary soldiers.
India and Pakistan almost went to war after a terrorist attack killed lots of Indian paramilitary police in the Indian bit of Kashmir.
They are threatened by the growing power of The First Order, a paramilitary organization eager to reinstate imperial rule under Supreme Leader Snoke.
The government will guarantee the safety of ex-rebels and their political allies, who have historically been targets for right-wing paramilitary groups.
In one class he asked his teaching assistants to pose as Red Guards, Mao's paramilitary youth, and act out boisterous self-criticism sessions.
The paramilitary group is known to carry out assassinations and cyberattacks around the world and has been penalized by the United States government.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Israeli and African leaders bonded over their nations' anticolonial struggles as Israel aided African armies and paramilitary organizations.
Soleimani's Quds Force and its paramilitary proxies, ranging from Lebanon's Hizbollah to the PMF in Iraq, have ample means to mount a response.
An ardent Marxist, Garland was a leader in the Official Irish Republican Army, a paramilitary group that splintered off from the original IRA.
That border was heavily militarized during the Troubles, both a symbol of the strife and a very real target for nationalist paramilitary groups.
"[T]he CIA's shift toward tactical paramilitary counterterrorism operations draws energy and resources away from analysis and longer-term strategic concerns, and human intelligence is also hampered by a dearth of employees with vital language skills," wrote Georgetown University law professor Rosa Brooks, citing other shortfalls of the CIA and recommending that it relinquish paramilitary programs to the Defense Department.
In 2012, Uribe accused Cepeda of orchestrating a plot to falsely tie him to right-wing paramilitary groups during jail visits to former fighters.
In "Journey," she verbally orders a rogue, cowboy-ish host to go fight the Delos paramilitary forces currently trying to stifle the robot rebellion.
As Modi spoke, gunmen attacked a police station in Indian Kashmir's summer capital, Srinagar, killing an officer and wounding 10 police and paramilitary troops.
A local police chief, Yan Pieter Reba, said security forces were responding to attacks last month by gunmen that killed paramilitary police and civilians.
"The four men suffered multiple gunshot wounds and died on the spot," Khan Wasay, a spokesman for the Frontier Corps paramilitary force, told Reuters.
Speaking to CNBC in Doha Sunday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu maintained that Ankara would not accept continued Kurdish paramilitary presence in the area.
The strong, powerhouse CIA paramilitary officer is no longer the man we have come to know over the course of the last five seasons.
According to Agence France-Presse, residents have been hiding inside after paramilitary leader Mohamed Hamdan Degalo warned that "any chaos" would not be tolerated.
One of the most powerful figures in Iraq, Amiri heads an umbrella of paramilitary groups, and has maintained close ties with Iran for decades.
Even though paramilitary groups demobilized back in 2006, many members remained armed and formed new crime gangs focused on drug trafficking and illegal mining.
WWF has provided paramilitary forces with salaries, training, and supplies — including knives, night vision binoculars, riot gear, and batons — and funded raids on villages.
Slovakian liberals were furious over reports that the Slovak Recruits, a right-wing paramilitary group, had conducted training exercises there using old military tanks.
In an apparent attempt to assassinate Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, two drones carrying explosives flew near him as he addressed the paramilitary National Guard.
France sent paramilitary forces to help him defeat the Islamists in Benghazi, where three French officers were killed in a helicopter crash in 2016.
In the third attack, gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire at paramilitary soldiers killing one and wounding four in the west of the province.
A Reuters witness saw customers running out of the Aziz Istanbul restaurant in central Ouagadougou as police and paramilitary gendarmerie surrounded it, amid gunfire.
Evidence is emerging that appears to show ties between Mr Bolsonaro's family and paramilitary militias that operate in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
More than 220,000 people have been killed in Colombia's conflict, which has pitted leftist guerrillas against right-wing paramilitary groups and the security forces.
The 100,000-strong coalition brings together Iraqi security forces, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and several paramilitary groups representing religious minorities, including Shia and Christian Iraqis.
Iraqi forces and a Christian paramilitary group entered the town earlier in the week and faced fierce resistance from ISIS fighters for several days.
The Central Reserve Force Police is a paramilitary organization that is working with the Indian military to quell the 30-year insurgency in Kashmir.
Badr and other Shi'ite paramilitary groups on Saturday joined a U.S.-backed campaign to recapture Mosul, Islamic State's last major city stronghold in Iraq.
One reason is the deployment since 1413 of the Rangers, a tough paramilitary force that has used overwhelming firepower, plus encounters, to arouse fear.
It also includes as environment minister Sergio Costa, a general in the carabinieri, a paramilitary police force, who is an expert on environmental crime.
At least 60 pro-democracy protestors have been killed this week by paramilitary forces in Sudan, according to civil society groups, the Guardian reports.
They say these were fired by colectivos, paramilitary groups loyal to the regime, rather than by the riot police, who did not carry guns.
Through allied Iraqi politicians and paramilitary groups, it emerged as the dominant force after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Juan Frío was the seat of the local paramilitary boss, who was known for excessive punishments he meted out to those who disobeyed him.
The Gallon Henao family were well-known alleged cocaine traffickers during the 1990s who were accused of using their wealth to fund paramilitary gangs.
The Central Reserve Force Police is a paramilitary organisation that is working with the Indian military to quell the 30-year insurgency in Kashmir.
Throughout election day, heavy paramilitary presence was reported at poll stations as Gambians cast their votes using the country's unique marbles and drums system.
In Iraq, the war against ISIS has propelled the paramilitary forces into a formidable military and political force with as many as 240,245 men.
According to reports, the attackers had received paramilitary training from an ultranationalist Russian group that recruited and trained volunteers to fight for the separatists.
Iranian-backed Shi'ite paramilitary forces known as Popular Mobilization and Sunni tribal fighters known as Tribal Mobilization took part in the offensive, it added.
The move would be a change from the policy of former President Barack Obama's administration of limiting the CIA's paramilitary role, the newspaper reported.
India's government said it had "incontrovertible evidence" of Pakistani involvement in Thursday's killing of 44 paramilitary police - though that was quickly denied by Islamabad.
In October 2014, Mr. Nizami was convicted of leading a paramilitary group that sided with the army of West Pakistan against pro-independence forces.
However, in 2016 they became an official paramilitary force of the Iraqi government, even though they continued to threaten the United States in Iraq.
The Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition of opposition groups accused military and paramilitary forces of opening fire on the high school pupils.
On Monday, an IED blast in Pakistan's volatile South Waziristan region on the border with Afghanistan left one paramilitary soldier dead and three injured.
Parking spaces at the stadium were filled with more than 100 dark-painted paramilitary vehicles, including troop trucks, armoured personnel carriers, buses and jeeps.
Other land was seized by paramilitary and guerrilla groups with farmers often pressured by the armed groups to sell out at cut-rate prices.
Women were raped and the paramilitary group started recruiting the young people, telling them they had to take up arms for money or respect.
Three days before the deadline, several hundred paramilitary fighters gathered in Masaya in Toyota HiLux pickups, like those used by Taliban raiders in Afghanistan.
Some 100,0003 Iraqi soldiers, security forces, Kurdish peshmerga fighters and mainly Shi'ite paramilitary forces are participating in the Mosul campaign that began on Oct.
They cited past allegations of human rights violations against the YPG, the Kurdish paramilitary group from which the SDF draws much of its strength.
Charlie and his brother Steve talked about some sort of paramilitary-style, street-based system, taking over various estates in parts of the county.
During the June 3 raid, members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shouted at her and other protesters and told them to flee.
Added into the volatile mix were rival paramilitary groups and rampant government corruption, creating a security situation that put Colombia off-limits to travelers.
It dovetailed well with an interesting graphic essay from Nate Powell on paramilitary aesthetics and their increasing popularity among reactionaries in the United States.
After years of declining to turn over the men, President Uribe had suddenly made an urgent appeal to the Americans: Those wanted paramilitary leaders?
Both the guerrillas and the paramilitary groups funded their activities with drug money, collecting "war taxes" and providing security for traffickers in their areas.
Then in April 2008, Mario Uribe, the president's cousin and a former Senate president, was arrested and accused of conspiring with paramilitary death squads.
The firefight took place in the Pulwama district where India has intensified security operations since a suicide attack killed 40 paramilitary police in February.
American officials later said that the intelligence included photographs of missiles on small boats in the Persian Gulf, put there by Iranian paramilitary forces.
Troops from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces paraded through the streets in long columns of military vehicles and set up checkpoints across the city.
The Singapore Police website describes the group as "tough, vigilant and steadfast" that operates "across the spectrum of paramilitary operations to help safeguard Singapore".
These calls for tenders refer to compounds of up to 880,000 square feet, some with quarters for People's Armed Police, a paramilitary security force.
The leader of a white supremacist group in Florida said Mr. Cruz was a member of his group and had participated in paramilitary drills.
Delays and shortages In parts of Srinagar, shops are boarded up and the streets deserted due to the continued presence of Indian paramilitary soldiers.
But Colombians direct blame at different parties: the FARC, the leftist guerrilla group National Liberation Army (ELN), paramilitary groups, and the Colombian military forces.
Hezbollah is a paramilitary political party based in Lebanon, whose pro-Iranian militants are actively fighting in Syria alongside the Bashar al-Assad regime.
Hong Kong's military garrison has been reinforced with thousands of soldiers and paramilitary police from the mainland, answerable to the hard men in Beijing.
Afghan border security forces separately thwarted an attack on Italian military advisers at a paramilitary base in the western province of Herat on Wednesday.
Despite the heavy deployment of paramilitary forces, some small protests broke out in Srinagar over the loss of statehood following the administrative shake-up.
The PMF is an umbrella of mostly Shi'ite paramilitary groups backed by Iran who are influential in Iraq's parliament and have allies in government.
The militia groups also agreed Sadr could have an augmented symbolic role leading them in opposition to the United States, the paramilitary sources said.
Among those was Hadi al-Amiri, the head of the state-sanctioned paramilitary Popular Mobilization Units, the umbrella group for the Iran-backed militias.
Many of those fighters joined the Azov Battalion, which embraces neo-Nazi symbols, and then returned to their home countries with new paramilitary skills.
"These are the true paramilitary groups of Venezuela," said Roberto Briceño-León, director of the Venezuelan Violence Observatory, a nonprofit group that tracks crime.
This Shi'a paramilitary force -- with the goal of exporting Iran's revolution and ultimately liberating Palestine and Israel – was created immediately after the 1979 revolution.
Iran, which sought international influence amid heightened tensions in the Middle East, established the paramilitary group to conduct warfare through the use of proxies.
The group is affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist paramilitary movement that's considered the parent organization of Modi's ruling BJP party.
That year alone, over 8,000 men, women and children had been slaughtered, most of them by the government's armed forces and paramilitary death squads.
Smith had discussed as early as 2016 joining a far-right paramilitary group in Ukraine before he became a US Army soldier in 2017.
He didn't, but like many other survivors of the paramilitary violence during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Rouhani spoke from a riser at the parade in Tehran, with uniformed officers from the country's military and its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard beside him.
Mr. Ramírez agreed that the ELN's influence is rising, but by his account its goal is to protect towns from paramilitary groups and developers.
The paramilitary Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Force was leading the mission to bring the bodies to the town of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand state.
These groups include the Asaib Ahl al-Haq and Kataeb Hezbollah paramilitary groups and the Badr Organization military wing, according to the Associated Press.

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