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Armed fighters of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) ethnic group take a cigarette break amid fighting in in northren Myanmar's Kachin state, in file photo. ... The KIA is one of several militias with which the Myanmar government is trying to end decades of ethnic separatist civil wars and forge peace in the ...

Large posters of candidates line the streets of the capital, alongside pictures of members of the Iraqi armed forces and of Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) forces killed in the fight against the Islamic State (IS). Prominent figures of the PMU, also known as Hashid Shaabi, allied in the Fateh (Conquest) ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah militia group leader pleaded guilty Thursday to trying to blow up a federally owned cabin in Arizona in what ... He came under investigation after joining Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's armed 2014 standoff over grazing fees amid hot debate over federal control of public ...

Army arrests five armed militias in Nasarawa State. Troops of the Nigerian Army 177 Guards Battalion yesterday in conjunction with the Nigeria Police arrested five suspected militia members in Nasarawa State. A statement by the Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Texas Chukwu, said the ...

He was also at the 2014 armed standoff between federal agents and supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy. The guilty plea is seen as a victory for the federal government which has had a spotty record convicting leaders of the modern western militia movement lately. Earlier this year, the federal case ...

Campaign posters for Iraqi parliament candidate Ahmed al-Asadi, the former spokesman for the Popular Mobilization Forces, Iraq's Shiite militias, hang ... Amiri has a head start as a politician, as a former Iran-based commander of the Badr Brigades, the Iraqi militia that fought Saddam Hussein, and later as ...

Heavily armed Boko Haram fighters on Thursday attempted to storm the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, civilian militia said, in a rare urban incursion by the jihadists. Ibrahim Liman and Babakura Kolo, from the Civilian Joint Task Force, said fighting broke out in the Jiddari Polo area of the city at about ...

“What is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them.“ George Mason. “A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammo to maintain a status of independence ...” George Washington.

... help spearhead the integration of pro-government militias into the national security forces. The course which is being conducted by AMISOM Police is aimed at training officials from the ministry of internal security to acquire the necessary skills needed to register members of armed pro-government groups ...

The Kebbi Police Command has arrested 10 members of the 11-man gang involved in attack on Bena, a town in Danko-Wasagu local government area of the State, which resulted in the death of five people. Kabiru Ibrahim, the Kebbi State Commissioner of Police, confirmed the arrest to newsmen on ...

Syrian rebel fighters backed by Ankara raised Turkish and Syrian rebel flags in the centre of Afrin after Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters moved in Sunday morning following the retreat of Kurdish militias. It marked a win for Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who said in a speech that “many of the ...

The colonists, instead, believed that “liberty without regulation was anarchy” (3), and that unregulated armed groups were not a militia but a “rabble” (19). Militias existed for fear of a (national) “standing army” (19) that could over-run states rights. Second Amendment fear of disarmament reacted to ...

A militia in Mali says it has recovered weapons and a vehicle abandoned by US special forces during a deadly ambush in Niger last year, and is prepared ... In a statement, the MSA-GATIA militia group said it captured the materiel from unidentified "armed bandits" on the Mali side of the border with Niger in ...

Clearly, spending money on guns, training and bonuses, rather than teachers' salaries, school supplies, school nurses, counselors and hiring more teachers to make class sizes smaller, is totally insane. Yes, teachers should be armed, but with the support and resources needed to properly do their job.

A more reliable force was found in the Ustaše Militia, the armed wing of Pavelić's party. The militiamen gained a reputation as tough combat soldiers, but lacked discipline and were responsible for terrible atrocities, including the operation of some 20 concentration camps. Thousands more Croatian ...

By that time, Syria was in the midst of civil war. In the United States, the conflict was seen as a battle between the pro-government forces of President Bashar Assad and resistance rebels. But Syria had become many battlefronts involving an array of militias with different objectives. The YPG, a Kurdish militia ...

Armed members of Rhodes' militia patrolled the streets during the Ferguson, Missouri, protests in 2014, where they positioned themselves on the roofs of second-story apartments, overlooking the crowds. Some said they felt safer having them around, but police disagreed, threatening the Oath Keepers with ...

The leader of an extremist anti-government group has a solution to stop school shootings: Send every school in the country a former police officer or military veteran, armed with an assault rifle, to defend students. Before the deadly Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in ...

Armed Extremist Militia Group Urges Members To Stand Guard Outside Of Schools ... In the wake of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, a far-right armed militia group called the Oath Keepers is urging its members to station themselves outside of schools to provide protection, HuffPost has ...

The killing of four armed militiamen, release of results of university admission examination results and the arrest of arms dealer are some of the leading stories in Nigerian newspapers on Monday.The Sun newspaper said that the Nigerian army killed four armed militiamen and arrested nine in Ningi Local ...

In his latest effort, Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry, Charles asserts historical record does not support the individual right to bear arms as we know it today. Rather, the founders believed in arming the populace for the sole purpose of a well-trained militia ...

Loesch responded: “George Mason was one of the founding fathers, and he said 'The militia is the whole of the people.' It's every .... It is important to know that, at the time the constitution was signed, there was significant opposition to having a standing army, and state militias were supposed to fill that gap.

Turkey's defense minister, Nurettin Canikli, said on Thursday that he doubted that the pro-Syrian government militias advancing to Afrin were capable of subduing the Kurdish militias, which is Turkey's goal. “The armed units allegedly sent to Afrin by the Syrian regime have no capacity to change the result of ...