Sentence examples for militias from inspiring English sources

Davis won the Gold Walkley in 2000 for his report on the funding of pro-Indonesian militias in East Timor.

Bombs planted by rebels exploded at a school building occupied by security forces and pro-government militias in Damascus, activists and rebels said.

There is also a growing sense that differences between different separatist militias could lead to confrontation.

With the new militias often fighting in unmarked uniforms, it has sometimes been difficult even to identify who they are.

The Somali government, although internationally recognised, is weak; its army is mostly a mixture of militias still loyal to quarrelling warlords.

Libya's national congress had ordered the defence and interior ministries to find those who abducted Shaban and were suspected of torturing him to death, and had given Bani Walid's militias until last Friday to hand them over.

Many militias operating in cities are only willing to join the Libyan National Army as a unit, and the government has done little to disband them.

His appointment threatens to derail efforts by UN envoy Bernardino Leon to relaunch a political dialogue in Libya, which has rival governments and parliaments and is flush with armed militias.

But after Islamist-led militias seized Tripoli, following disputed elections in June, the internationally recognised authorities have gradually allied themselves with him.

At times it has hinged on little more than semantic argument over whether the conflict was "war" (were the Aboriginal fighters guerrilla warriors?) and whether the locally raised militias, police and British military units qualified as an Australian defence force.

He was due to meet the recently appointed prime minister, Ali Zaidan, who is trying to construct a government of national unity and disband the militias that dominate the country.