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insurgency

[in-sur-juhn-see] / ɪnˈsɜr dʒən si /


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A mission in southern Iraq had tamped down tribal warfare and insurgency without bloodshed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Since then, Iraqi forces have fought Islamic State remnants engaged in a low-level insurgency around the country’s remote areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

When the party got together in the same West Midlands venue a year ago, they were an insurgency provoking intrigue and attention and demonstrating plenty of momentum.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The pair have denied the allegations, dismissing claims of an armed insurgency as fabricated.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

Typically the subject was a well-to-do immigrant supporting some potential insurgency in his old land, or else funding a fledgling trade union or radical student organization.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

He warned of a "spillover" of fighting from separate insurgencies in the neighbouring Sahel.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Most fighters in the Africa Corps formerly belonged to the Russian mercenary Wagner group, which was active in the continent, hired by local governments to help curb insurgencies.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

The West African country has long been afflicted by civil war, foreign military interventions, and Islamist insurgencies.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which comes as Pakistan's security forces battle intensifying insurgencies in both the southern and northern provinces of the country that border Afghanistan.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

Not quite perfect, for continually there arise little insurgencies, inadequacies and frictions to which in time it will succumb.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.




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