rebel forces
Armed opposition groups
Rebel forces are armed groups fighting against an established government or occupying power.
The term is perspective-dependent—one side's rebel forces are another's freedom fighters or insurgents.
News coverage uses the phrase for clarity without endorsing either side: Rebel forces captured the provincial capital.
The plural forces treats the group as a military unit rather than scattered individuals.
- ambushesHidden surprise attacks
- Mau Mau UprisingKenyan anticolonial insurgency, 1950s
- Viet CongVietnamese communist guerrilla force
- resistance movementsOrganized opposition to authority
- freedom fightersArmed opponents of oppression
revolutionaries · take up arms · Zapatistas · guerrilla warfare · hit and run · governments · partisans · insurgency · raids · mujahideen · paramilitary groups · Bolsheviks · civil disobedience · hearts and minds · separatists · uprisings · liberation · French Resistance
- Xinhai RevolutionSun Yat-sen, Republic of China, abdication, provisional government, republican movement
- Revolutionary WarGeorge Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Paul Revere, Betsy Ross flag
- independencefreedom, liberty, Independence Day, autonomy, sovereignty
- Philippine historypresidents, Spanish rule, vice president, revolutionaries, Imelda
- Civil War Infantryfoot soldiers, riflemen, battle formations, battle lines, skirmishers
- guerrilla warfareguerrilla, guerrilla tactics, guerrilla fighter, partisan, partisan warfare
rebel forcesgovernment forces
Military under state control
regular army · armed forces · military · federal troops · federal forces
rebel forcescivilian population