Palestinian officials said they were members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the armed wing of the Fatah movement headed by western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

They have been repeatedly displaced by fighting between the nation's largest guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,or FARC, and a right-wing paramilitary group called the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

Union leaders describe the league as an armed wing of the ruling Ennahda party, a moderate Islamist group that dominates Tunisia's post-revolution government.

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According to his official biography on the Lebanese army Web site, Suleiman worked closely with the armed wing of the Shiite movement Hezbollah to counter the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon.

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The paramilitaries and the Colombian government share some of the same enemies - the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN).

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