On the other hand, the adviser said, "if the insurgent force took Basra — that's the end.
The most militant group is the Shabab, a multiclan insurgent force that the United States classifies as a terrorist organization.
After Ethiopian troops defeated the ICU, al-Shabaab – which means "the youth" – emerged an as autonomous insurgent force.
A potent insurgent force is now finding that it can achieve more by working within the system than by fighting it.
It is also an opportunity for CNN to get its house in order.Two decades ago CNN was an insurgent force in television.
Last week, an insurgent force calling itself the March 23 Movement, or M23, seized control of the city of Goma, in North Kivu.
The more senior, a humorous, middle-aged fellow with a pistol tucked slyly into his bulky coat, leads an insurgent force in Marja.
Boko Haram is a deadly insurgent force that needs to be confronted, the governor said, but not by a military that terrorizes its own people.
An insurgent force depends on the goodwill of those in whose name it fights, and the Taliban's religious credentials are beginning to wear thin.
A former Chechen separatist leader, Mr. Umarov, 46, was part of the insurgent force that drove Russian troops from Chechnya in the war there in the mid-1990s.
That relationship has further upset people in Kosovo and made the insurgent force all the more symbolic as an instrument of Albanian aspirations.
