militants

plural of militant

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Recent Examples of militants The Assad family, members of the sect, ruled Syria for over half a century until Bashar was ousted in December by Sunni Islamist militants who sought to reshape the country’s political and sectarian order. Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025 Hamas militants killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages, according to Israeli tallies. Nidal Al-Mughrabi, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025 Israel’s military offensive has killed more than 48,000 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t say how many of the dead were militants. TIME, 9 Mar. 2025 Israel's military offensive has killed more than 48,000 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which doesn't say how many of the dead were militants. arkansasonline.com, 9 Mar. 2025 Along with the civilian casualties, the war monitor reported 125 members of the government security forces have been killed along with 148 militants associated with the loyalists. ABC News, 8 Mar. 2025 Israel said Friday that Palestinian militants will release American-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen, Russian-Israeli Alexandre Troufanov and Argentinian-Israeli Iair Horn. Dana Karni, Ibrahim Dahman and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025 So far, 16 out of 33 Israeli hostages and five Thai nationals scheduled for release in the current phase of the agreement have been freed by Palestinian militants, and 656 Palestinian prisoners from a list of nearly 2,000 have been released by Israel. Dana Karni, Ibrahim Dahman and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025 Crisis in Syria's ISIS camps A network of prisons has been holding former Islamic State group militants and their families in northeastern Syria since the organization was defeated in 2019 on the battlefield. Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025

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