Sentence examples for whose militiamen from inspiring English sources

Iran, which is predominantly Shiite Muslim, has never recognized the Taliban, who are mostly Sunni Muslims and whose militiamen seized an Iranian diplomatic mission in Afghanistan in 1998 and killed about a dozen people.

Mr Allawi, whose party has 25 MPs, has good relations with the Sunni parties, but is hated by the Sadrists, whose militiamen fought his security forces during their rebellion in 2004 and who deride him as Baathist: he was once a member of Mr Hussein's former ruling party.

The building was apparently bombed in 1993, when the station was run by Gen. Mohammed Farah Aideed, a notorious Somali warlord whose militiamen fought against American troops in a vicious street battle later immortalized by the book and film, "Black Hawk Down".

Back from the brinkMuqtada al-Sadr, the rebellious Shia cleric whose militiamen have fortified themselves in the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf, indicated that he might accept an offer to leave the shrine and turn his "Mahdi Army" into a political movement.

Saada - a northern Yemeni province, sharing its border with Saudi Arabia - is the stronghold of the Shia Houthi movement, whose militiamen have fought six wars with the government in the province since 2004.

But many observers said it was unlikely that Turkish forces would move in on Kobani, whose Kurdish militiamen are allied with Turkey's longtime nemesis, the Kurdistan Workers Partyy, or PKK.

In August, the two fought a pitched battle for this port on the Congo river.What, meanwhile, has happened to the Hutu militiamen whose presence in eastern Congo was the reason Rwanda and Uganda gave for intervening in the first place?

Many of the Taliban's targets have been so-called Arbakai, or village self-defense forces, and pro-government militiamen, whose role has been controversial in Kunduz and other areas.

Perhaps more realistic than total disarmament, elders in Darfur say, is some kind of truce, but even that remains a tricky prospect, particularly given that there are countless Janjaweed militiamen whose identities are uncertain.

These aren't postings you'd usually associate with the machine gun-laden Libyan militiamen whose photos tend to crop up in the Western media.

Helping to spearhead the assault were Shiite militiamen whose presence and ties to Shiite Iran could stoke sectarian tension tearing Iraq apart in what is likely to be a bloody thrust against a largely Sunni Muslim area.