And as NPR's Tom Bowman reports, they're the driving force behind a new armed group.
Mr Uribe has said he will not talk to any armed group until hostilities cease.
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The following day, an armed group of Navy personnel boarded the vessel and found artillery shells, according to two defense officials.
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America's draft resolution, while not specifying the possible sanctions, does call for an immediate ban on weapons sales to any armed group in Darfur.
"Even tonight, after the attack, more than 40 peacekeepers remain with the villagers in this remote region to protect them from this armed group, " Ban said.
The state-run Saudi Press Agency cited an official source at the Saudi Foreign Ministry as saying al-Khalidi was seized by an armed group in front of his home.
The mission's own force commander, however, blasted its performance as "totally and utterly unacceptable" after a 2003 episode in which an armed group killed 563 civilians, according to U.N. records.
Parts of Africa, Asia and South America risk long term instability as there is evidence of children moving from one armed group to another, or becoming part of criminal gangs.
Rather, they will side with an armed group that comes from their own local communities and is required, due to its need for a recruiting base, to address their specific security concerns.
Ultimately, those who want to be part of the political process should not engage in armed group or militia activities, for there is a fundamental contradiction between such activities and the building of a democratic State.
Meanwhile, in neighboring Lebanon, a military court charged two Syrian army officers Saturday with attempting to form an armed group to spread sectarian violence through plotting political and religious assassinations, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Mr Kablia said that the kidnappers were Algerian and operating under orders from Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a senior commander of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) before late last year, when he set up his own armed group after apparently falling out with other leaders.
Algerian Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia said that the kidnappers were Algerian and operating under orders from Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a senior commander of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) before late last year, when he set up his own armed group after apparently falling out with other leaders.
There has been no terror attack on mainland France since 1995, when a series of bombings was claimed by a group calling itself the Armed Islamic Group general command.
He was a member of Montoneros, an armed guerrilla group which fought the military in the late 1970s.
The alleged cell, he said, was "probably the most dangerous" France had seen since the Algerian-based GIA (Armed Islamic Group), which carried out a series of attacks in 1995-96.
The French security alert follows a plan, codenamed Vigipirate, which was first introduced in 1995 following a series of bombings in Paris that were blamed on Algerian guerrillas of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA).
Mr Belmokhtar joined the conflict, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and became a key figure in the militant Armed Islamist Group (GIA) and later the breakaway Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC).
He returned to Algeria as a hardened fighter with a new nickname "Belaouar" -- the "one-eyed" -- after his battlefield injury, and joined forces with the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in its brutal campaign against the Algerian regime and civilians deemed to be its supporters.
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He returned to Algeria as a hardened fighter with a new nickname "Belaouar" -- the "one-eyed" -- after a battlefield injury, and joined forces with the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in its brutal campaign against the Algerian regime and civilians deemed to be its supporters.
"I'm sure that you knew one of your group was armed with a knife that night, " the judge said.
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They are suspected of belonging to a group of armed rebels operating in Macedonia, said U.N. spokesman Andreas Graf.
At least eight people have been killed in an attack by a group of armed men in the eastern Kenyan town of Garissa.
Russian diplomats have made scant efforts to meet with Syrian opposition figures and Moscow seems to accept Damascus' portrayal of the opposition as a group of armed criminal gangs, according to a Western official familiar with the Russian thinking.
The United States has begun providing money, equipment and training to the Philippine armed forces for their campaign against the Abu Sayyaf, a group of a few dozen armed Filipino Muslim kidnappers.
They set out from Orchha on Friday and had pitched their tent in a forest near Jatia village when they were attacked by a group of men armed with wooden sticks.
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They set out from Orchha on Friday and pitched their tent in a forest near Jatia village when they were attacked by a group of men armed with wooden sticks, police said.
His idea was recently picked up by Civil Military Operations group of the Armed Forces of the Philippines that is set to distribute 10, 000 bottle bulbs to different parts of Metro Manila's slums.
Keene seemed to be broadening the NRA's position by encouraging wider discussion, said Mo Canady, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers, a nonprofit nonpolitical group that trains armed officers in schools.
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