militiaman
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Last month, it launched a complex operation to release cadres held in prisons run by U.S.-backed Kurdish militiaman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
Another video captured a militiaman recounting a purported conversation with police.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2021
In mid-June, a self-described Virginia militiaman drove with a new acquaintance from his home in Alexandria to a former prison in the nearby town of Lorton, about 15 miles away.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2021
Eventually he subbed out the grinning selfie in his Twitter profile, replacing it with the image of a colonial militiaman shouldering an AR-15 rifle.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2019
As they closed in, a Virginia militiaman galloped all night to warn Jefferson.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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Later he tried to build civil society in war-torn Iraq and Libya and was briefly kidnapped by Tuareg militiamen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
The Syrian shrine of Sayeda Zainab drew Iran-backed militiamen from throughout the region.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2025
He began trying to blunt the danger that he saw lurking in every volatile situation the militiamen put themselves in.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
They would be militiamen, not soldiers, they were told.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024
One piece of the mudslinging was the Coffin Handbill, a famous campaign poster published by Adams supporters that showed rows of coffins and listed Jackson’s “bloody deeds”—his duels, the deaths of militiamen under his command.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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