Sentence examples for militants split from inspiring English sources

That first generation of militants split, in the nineteen-eighties, into smaller groups that diverged on goals and tactics.

After being chased into the mountains, the militants split into small groups and began to carry out guerrilla attacks.

The militants split into two groups, one taking over the living quarters, and the other headed for the gas production facility, which they mined with explosives, witnesses said.

After they failed to capture the bus, the prime minister said, the militants split into two groups: one to seize the complex's living quarters, the other to capture the gas plant itself, a maze of pipes and machinery.

It was founded by a group of militants who split with older factions like Hamas, Fatah and the Islamic Jihad.

But Russia's ceaseless conspiracy mill quickly produced speculation that Chechen militants had split the glacier apart -- or that the film crew had caused the disaster by using explosives during filming.

One fear is that a military drive against the militants could split apart the shared monetary goals that have helped to keep the region from spiralling into all-out conflict.The government is eager to dispel notions of civil war, a particularly sensitive subject since the Niger Delta lies at the heart of the territory that tried to secede from Nigeria in the Biafran civil war in the 1960s.

Joseph Boinnet, Kenya's police chief, said al-Shabaab militants who had split towards Isis were to blame for the attack.

Both attacks were claimed by Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a militant group that split away from the Pakistani Taliban and briefly pledged allegiance to Islamic State.

The family names relate to belief in The Nation of Gods and Earths, a black militant group that split from the Nation of Islam in the 1960s.

Pakistani militant factions have split apart and formed new alliances over the past two years as counter-terrorism operations targeted the Pakistani Taliban, a loose federation of extremist outfits seeking to impose Islamic sharia law.