"militia" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- However, in 1983, the regular army had been sidelined, and the religious militias were now made the mainstay of the Iranian military.
- The proposal for a Shiite religious militia initially received a tepid response from other, senior clergymen.
- But the foreign terrorists, religious militias and criminal organizations operate from very different playbooks.
- The confusion caused by withdrawal would be compounded as religious, militia and political loyalties divided inadequately prepared military and police units.
- Likewise, it was evasive on how and when ethnic and religious militias, which could wreck a future Iraqi state, are to be integrated into a national guard.
- The post-Communist new world disorder has made situations even more unstable as crumbling countries are fought over by ethnic and religious militias.
- That hope rests, ultimately, on core components of the Sunni insurgency, and their rivals in Shiite religious militias, laying down their arms to build a common life.
- He hinted that religious militias could be given a bigger security role if the government was incapable of protecting holy shrines.
- Many inductees were made members of the Revolutionary Guards, the paramilitary religious militia that eventually became Iran's most ferocious battlefield force.
- Thousands of people on Halmahera were killed in the fighting between religious militias.
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