Sentence examples for largest militias from inspiring English sources

He commands one of the largest militias in Somalia and fought for years against the country's previous dictator, Siad Barre.

The largest militias are the Kurdish pesh merga and an Iranian-trained Shiite militia that Sunni leaders have blamed for attacks against them.

Yet Mr. Mehdi's party controls one of the largest militias in Iraq, the Badr Corps, whose cadre are thought to number in the thousands.

In eastern Libya, around Benghazi, the birthplace of the uprising, some of the largest militias are loosely or explicitly Islamist, and they often clash with former Qaddafi army units that defected in the revolt.

Still, he said, "we have a very good relationship" with the leaders of Benghazi's largest militias — which constitute the only security force for the government — from their days fighting together on the front lines of the revolt against Colonel Qaddafi.

American and Iraqi officials said Monday that they had won commitments from nine of the country's largest militias to disband, but there were immediate indications that the agreement might be difficult to enforce.

But to have allowed Isis to become the largest militia in Libya right on Europe's doorstep is extraordinary.

Marshal Fahim's reluctance to disarm troops of the Northern Alliance, which remains the largest militia force in the country and basically loyal to him, has frustrated United Nations and foreign officials, and was a major factor in delaying the parliamentary elections for six more months, until next spring.

Zamili has often appeared in military dress, even inside parliament, in order to demonstrate his link with the Sadr Movement, which has fielded one of the largest militia forces fighting on behalf of the Iraqi government.

Larger militias controlled oil fields, ports, and public buildings.

Benghazi residents and the leaders of the large militias that have constituted the city's only police force insist that the attackers were purely local.