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4 Allied Democratic Forces Early 1990s ISIS 11/07/2023 13:21 
   Established in the early 1990s through an agreement between portions of Uganda’s Salaf Tabliq Islamic sect and the National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU), who said they had been sidelined by Museveni’s policies. At the time, the rebels staged deadly attacks in Ugandan villages and the capital, including a 1998 attack in which 80 students were massacred. A Ugandan military operation later forced the ADF into eastern Congo. The ADF has since established ties with the Islamic State group. The ADF has received funding from the Government of Sudan, which has also provided supplies and training. The ADF may also have received funding from the illegal mining and logging industries of the DRC
8 Al-Qaeda 1988  11/07/2023 13:05 
   "The Base" in Arabic. Founded by the late Osama bin Laden, the late Ayman Zawahiri, and the late Abdullah Azzam during the fight in Afghanistan against the Soviets. Azzam's car blew up one day, moving Zawahiri to the Number Two slot. Once the Soviets were gone and collapsed, the surviving pair decided to conquer the world in the name of Islam, since it was run by Crusaders and Jews. Results are still out on that one.
5 ISIS 2004  11/05/2023 16:18 
   The unholy offspring of Zarqawi's al-Qaeda in Iraq organization. They are very Moslem, fond of chopping people's heads off and selling infidel women into lives of slavery and Islamic degradation.

ISIS managed to conquer good-sized swathes of Iraq and Syria before a U.S.-led coalition managed to throw them out. Kurdish forces of the SDF liberated Raqqa, the ISIS capital, and Manbij, among other places, after extended fighting. At that point the Turks decided to gobble up the Kurdish areas of Syria.

In Iraq, the Iraqi army folded with barely a fight in Mosul. They regrouped and ultimately got rid of all but the sleepers. At that point Iranian-backed puppets threw the government into confusion and turmoil and Popular Mobilization Forces came into being, along with a number of Hezbollah-taste-alikes.

On the bright side, the U.S. has been successful in bumping off the heads of ISIS, starting with al-Baghdadi.
1 M23 2009 Rwanda 11/05/2023 10:12 
   March 23rd Movement, also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army (Armée révolutionnaire du Congo). For the most part formed of ethnic Tutsi bad guyz.

The M23 rebellion of 2012 to 2013 against the DRC government led to the displacement of large numbers of people. On 20 November 2012, M23 took control of Goma, a provincial capital with a population of a million people, but it was requested to evacuate it by the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region because the DRC government had finally agreed to negotiate. In late 2012, Congolese troops, along with UN troops, retook control of Goma, and M23 announced a ceasefire and said that it wanted to resume peace talks.

A United Nations report found that Rwanda created and commanded the M23 rebel group. Rwanda ceased its support because of international pressure and the military defeat by the DRC and the UN in 2013.

In 2017, M23 elements resumed their insurgency, but the operations of this splinter faction had little local impact. In 2022, a larger portion of M23 started an offensive, which eventually resulted in the capture of the Congolese border town of Bunagana. After the M23 attacks of 2022, the Congolese government blamed Rwanda of supporting the rebels. Rwanda piously denied these accusations. In November 2022, M23 rebels got close to the city of Goma and forced about 180,000 people to leave their homes after the Congolese Army had withdrawn from the region near the village of Kibumba.

As of February 2023 the group occupies various major towns in eastern North Kivu including Bunagana, Kiwanja, Kitchanga, Rubaya, and controls vital roads leading to Goma.
14 Pak Taliban 2003  11/07/2023 13:40 
   Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan. The Pakistani version of the Afghan Taliban, an outgrowth of the TNSM and multiple jihadi organizations. It briefly ruled Swat, then tried to conquer the rest of the country. The government threw it out in a rare move against practitioners of the True Religion and it has since been waging jihad from bases in Afghanistan.
2 Rwanda 1962  11/05/2023 10:14 
   Rwanda, a former Belgian colony, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Rwanda has guarded its political stability since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Parliamentary elections in September 2018 saw women fill 61% of seats, the Rwandan Patriotic Front maintain an absolute majority, and two opposition parties, the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda and Social Party, Imberakuri, win two seats each. President Paul Kagame was re-elected for a seven-year term in August 2018, after an amendment to the constitution allowed him to run for a third term.
6 Taliban 1988  11/05/2023 10:09 
   The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. They are a Pashtun-dominated group of ultra-primitive Moslems who came to power in the wake of the war against the Soviets. Given shelter by the Pak government, who thought they were controlling them, they fought the U.S. backed government, the U.S., and its allies for twenty years in the wake of 9-11 to reestablish their hold and return to flogging their women.