Sentence examples for by various armed groups from inspiring English sources

Until 2014, looting was carried out by various armed groups, or individuals, or the Syrian regime.

Archaeological experts say Isis took over the already existing practice of illegal excavation and looting, which until 2014 was carried out by various armed groups, or individuals, or the Syrian regime.

Much of the improvement, economists say, comes from confidence in Mr. Uribe and his plan to bring security to this vast country, twice the size of France, which has been largely controlled by various armed groups.

It is threatened by various armed groups - from Ansar Dine, which is linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), to Touareg separatist rebel groups.

Mali has been threatened by various armed groups and has fought Islamist rebels in the north for a number of years.

Civilians in South Sudan — which achieved independence from Sudan in 2011 — have grown grimly accustomed to rape carried out by various armed groups.

However, Syria's division into areas run by the government, those led by the various armed groups, and those areas still contested, makes countrywide monitoring of displacement difficult.

Refugees have been marauded, raped and killed by the various armed groups that haunt the land.

Thousands of women, and hundreds of men, have been sexually assaulted by the various armed groups warring in eastern Congo.

"The continued insecurity created by the various armed groups is improving too slowly to satisfy the population," Babacar Gaye, head of the UN integrated peacebuilding office in CAR, told the UN security council.

For years, diplomats, aid workers, academics and government officials here have been vexed almost to the point of paralysis about how to attack this country's staggering problem of sexual violence, in which hundreds of thousands of women have been raped, many quite sadistically, by the various armed groups who haunt the hills of eastern Congo.