militant
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Before the war he worked as a blacksmith, they said, and neither he nor anyone else in the family has a political affiliation, whether to Hamas or any other militant groups.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Bonino served as a European commissioner and a foreign minister in Italy but was best known as a militant feminist with an inexorable dedication to political and humanitarian causes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Officially, its forces are deployed to help Sahel governments combat Islamist militant groups.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
But that was at odds with the militant group’s understanding of the sequencing and added to the stress on the deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing?
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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Islamabad says the militants use safe haven in Afghanistan to train and plan attacks in Pakistan.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Oil prices rose in early European trading Tuesday as the shutdown of Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline and recent territorial gains by Houthi militants in Yemen kept concerns over Middle East crude supplies elevated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Brent crude, the international benchmark, surged nearly 9% last week after Iran-backed Houthi militants took effective control of another shipping chokepoint off Yemen’s west coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The Saudis blamed militants in Iraq for the damage.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Sometimes my own little brothers—unaware of what it really meant—would pretend to be Taliban militants or army soldiers.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
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