There may be divisions within the movement or between its leadership and affiliated insurgent groups.
The agency recently received reports that Iraqi children have been recruited by militia and insurgent groups.
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Police mainly the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) insurgent groups for the attacks.
Throughout this period as well, we engage in dialogue with insurgent groups and tribes.
In the last year, many Sunni insurgent groups have challenged Zarqawi's terror tactics, which has led to open internal battles, says Assam.
Pakistan, for all its denials, can also influence the outcome in Afghanistan through the presence in its territory of the insurgent groups.
Insurgent groups have targeted some of the ground convoys with roadside bombs.
The commander also noted al Qaeda is just one of the insurgent groups that NATO and U.S. forces are fighting in Afghanistan.
The U.S. in recent months has put increased pressure on Pakistan to clamp down on insurgent groups, especially the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network.
Several insurgent groups belonging to the Bodo tribe have been demanding often at gunpoint the creation of a separate Bodo state out of Assam.
Monitors of their insurgent groups have counted more than 70 of them.
They have attempted to placate insurgent groups by giving them more autonomy.
They want Pakistan to be central to any peace deal Mr Karzai may strike with insurgent groups, including Hizb-e-Islami and the Haqqani network.
More pertinently, it is nearly double the range of the AK-47, a rifle of Soviet design that is used by many insurgent groups.
With little faith in the kindness of their erstwhile servile ethnicities, these insurgent groups can easily tap into the anxieties of the greater Sunni polity.
This (albeit much smaller) force is most active in Oaxaca, next to Chiapas, and in Guerrero, which has more insurgent groups than any other state.
Over the past two years such communication has assumed more importance, both among insurgent groups and between groups and their networks of supporters or sympathizers.
They have been fighting at least 12 insurgent groups since 1980.
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It describes a two-front insurgency, with the Taliban ruling in the south and a partnership of insurgent groups -- including al Qaeda -- in the east.
As for the British, they have long-standing legal objections to arming insurgent groups, something that manifested itself from Bosnia in the 1990s to Libya more recently.
For the first time, two Iraqi insurgent groups named a spokesman to voice their demands, implying that they might be open to negotiation with the government.
However, some insurgent groups are said to have realised that the January boycott was a strategic error, and have distributed pamphlets urging their supporters to go to the polls.
The troops found some of the population waving to them, while others were watching them "as observers" for insurgent groups who then launched attacks on the soldiers and armoured patrol vehicles.
Insurgent groups, too, are moving to acquire this technology.
The Taliban and other insurgent groups are stepping up attacks against Afghan government and foreign targets to increase their leverage for a political settlement once most foreign forces have withdrawn, analysts said.
At the same time, you know, the U.S. has been capitalizing on the, basically, a fall out between Sunni Arab - Shiites and Sunni insurgent groups with the group al-Qaida in Iraq.
There's more than a hundred insurgent groups, some of them small, some of them larger with various names, various affiliations, whether it's with the former Baath Party or with more religious elements.
That Muslim Scholars Association claims to have a lot of ties with insurgent groups, and so it's only natural that may be used as a filter through which to speak to these groups.
Others say it is time for Afghanistan to think about negotiating an end to the conflict with the insurgent groups a proposal that appears to be gaining acceptance both here and abroad.
The group is reportedly considering options such as a gradual pull-out of American troops and a diplomatic push to persuade Iran and Syria to curb the insurgent groups they are thought to encourage.
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