militiaman
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Last month, said Nizar Dughmush, the head of a prominent tribe in Gaza City, he was contacted by a militiaman who claimed he was an intermediary from the Israeli military.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2025
A Sunni militiaman at a checkpoint near Kharma on June 15.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023
“Everyone coming has their own technical equipment and knows how to use it,” the militiaman wrote in an encrypted message to his leader.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
Another video captured a militiaman recounting a purported conversation with police.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2021
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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After ousting the government from Sanaa in 2015, the Houthis attempted to also seize control of Taiz but were driven out of most of the city by local militiamen.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
He added that he has hundreds of militiamen under his command, contradicting observers who put the total number of fighters across the five groups at around 200.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
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
At the very least, going public could make militiamen more suspicious of each other.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
At perhaps ten, we heard a great number of militiamen approaching, speaking in accents boisterous and jocular—and so we quit our position and crouched some several rods away, in the grasses by the shore.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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