militiaman
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A Sunni militiaman at a checkpoint near Kharma on June 15.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023
The video was allegedly smuggled out of Syria by a pro-government militiaman who gave it to a pair of University of Amsterdam researchers, apparently in hopes it would help him get asylum outside Syria.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2022
Another video captured a militiaman recounting a purported conversation with police.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2021
Columnist Ralph Peters once wrote that “the laid off blue-collar worker in America and the Taliban militiaman in Afghanistan are brothers in suffering,” while others want to consign them to the soft shackles of the...
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2018
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
Some dozen militiamen had driven into the mountains near Peter Sinks, Utah, one of the coldest places in the contiguous U.S.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
They would be militiamen, not soldiers, they were told.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2024
Commanding Tennessee militiamen, he refused to leave any of his sick or wounded men behind after a long march, earning the admiring nickname Old Hickory.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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