List of paramilitary organizations

• General Service Unit (Kenya)
• Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS)

• Avengers of Blood[1]

• Special Mobile Force

• Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC)
• Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps
• Discipline and Intelligence Corps
• Safety and Traffic Cadet Corps

• Seychelles People's Defence Forces

• Rapid Support Forces

• The Emergency Response Team (RCMP)
  • Marine Emergency Response Team

• CIA Special Activities Center, Special Operations Group
• DOE Federal Protective Forces
• DOE Office of Secure Transportation
• FBI SWAT
• FBI Hostage Rescue Team
• United States Marshals Service
• National Lancers

• Venezuelan National Guard
• Bolivarian Militia of Venezuela

• Border Guard Bangladesh
• Bangladesh Coast Guard
• Bangladesh Ansar
• Bangladesh National Cadet Corps

• Paramilitary forces of China

• Police Force
  • Special Duties Unit
  • Special Tactical Squad
  • Counter Terrorism Response Unit
  • Police Tactical Unit
  • Airport Security Unit
  • VIP Protection Unit
  • Surveillance Support Unit
    • Quick Reaction Force
  • Small Boat Division
    • Maritime Emergency Response Team
• Civil Aid Service
• Government Flying Service

• Paramilitary forces of India

• Brimob
• Densus 88

• Special Assault Team

• Pasukan Gerakan Am as Paramilitary Force
• People's Volunteer Corps of Ministry of Home Affairs
• 69 Komando PGK as Multi Spectrum Special Force

• The Worker-Peasant Red Guards of the Workers' Party of Korea of North Korea

• Civil Armed Forces
• Pakistan National Guard
• Pakistan Levies

• Special Action Force

• Special Task Force

• Border Patrol Police
• Marine Paramilitary Task Force
• Paramilitary Marine Regiment, Royal Thai Navy also known as Thahan Phran Marines
• Thahan Phran also known as Thai Rangers
• Village Scouts
• Volunteer Defense Corps (Thailand)

• Militia and Self-Defense (Vietnam)

• RENEA

• Estonian Defence League

• Border Guard
• Police Rapid Response Unit

• Action Division of DGSE
• National Gendarmerie
• Marseille Naval Fire Battalion of the French Navy
• Paris Fire Brigade of the French Army

• Guardia di Finanza

• Zemessardze

• Lithuanian Riflemen's Union

• Royal Marechaussee
• Dienst Speciale Interventies

• BOA KGP

• Guarda Nacional Republicana (National Republican Guard)

• Registered Cossacks of the Russian Federation
• Kadyrovtsy

• National Task Force

• Azov Battalion
• Noman Çelebicihan Battalion
• Ukrainian Volunteer Corps (since 2022)

• Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
• Basij

• Popular Mobilization Forces
• Facilities Protection Service

• Magav

• National Defence Forces

• Village Guards

• Australian Border Force

• Raskamboni Front

• AUC
• AAA
• CONVIVIR
• Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Córdoba and Urabá (ACCU)
• Los Paisas
• Black Eagles
• Los Rastrojos
• Libertadores del Vichada
• Bloque Meta
• ERPAC

See also Right-wing paramilitarism in Colombia.

• Jalisco New Generation Cartel
• Grupos de autodefensa comunitaria

Various unorganized non-governmental Militia organizations in the United States (that are not associated with the U.S. military, law enforcement agencies, nor state defense forces in any way). There are many others totaling at around 334 unorganized militia groups as of 2011[10]

• 3 Percenters
• Arizona Border Recon
• Hutaree
• Idaho Light Foot Militia
• Michigan Militia
• Militia of Montana
• Missouri Citizens Militia
• New York Light Foot Militia
• Oath Keepers
• Ohio Defense Force
• Texas Light Foot Militia
• Fruit of Islam, paramilitary wing of the Nation of Islam

• Cambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF) (Cholana Kangtoap Serei Cheat Kampouchea): Rebel group in Cambodia

• Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
• Popular Front of India

• Pancasila Youth
• Free Aceh Movement: Regional separatist group in Aceh, Indonesia. Also known as Aceh Security Disturbance Movement.

• Barasi Revolusi Nasional (BRN): National separatist group in Malaysia and Thailand
• Barisan National Pember-Basan Pattani (BNPP): Islamic insurgent group in Malaysia and Thailand

• Eastern Shan State Army
• Mong Tai Army (MTA): Armed drug cartel
• National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA)
• United Wa State Army (UWSA): Autonomous military group in Wa State
• Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA): Also known as the Kokang Army, a Kokang nationalist group active in Myanmar.
• Karen National Liberation Army
• Kachin Independence Army: Group in North Burma which occupies most of Kachin State.[11]
• Shan State Army - North
• Shan State Army - South

• Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA): Separatist group

• Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG): Islamic separatist group in the southern Philippines. Also known as Al Harakut Al Islamiyya.
• Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB): Urban militant group of the Communist Party of the Philippines
• Bagani: A counter insurgency group operating in Cabanglasan.
• Ilaga (1971-1979): Christian extremist paramilitary group in the Southern Philippines. They battled against the Moro National Liberation Front and Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
• Alamara: A counterinsurgency operating across the central-eastern side of Mindanao

• Eelam People’s Democratic Party[12]

• Barasi Revolusi Nasional (BRN): National separatist group in Malaysia and Thailand
• Barisan National Pember-Basan Pattani (BNPP): Islamic insurgent group in Malaysia and Thailand

• Albanian National Army

• Green Berets
• Serbian Honour. A Russian-trained and -funded paramilitary unit acting in support of separatist leader Milorad Dodik.[13]

• Ustaše Militia acted as a para-military unit, an auxiliary part of the WW2 Croatian Nazi Puppet State's Armed Forces

• Algeti Wolves: Georgian group which carried out anti-Russian attacks in the 1990s.

• Óglaigh na hÉireann (OnH) (2006–09): Small dissident Irish republican group, split from the Continuity IRA.
• Óglaigh na hÉireann (OnH) (2009–): Dissident Irish republican group, split from the Real IRA due to differences in leadership and factionalism.

• Strzelec Riflemen's Association of Poland

• Russian Orthodox Army[14]
• Interbrigades[15]
• Russian Imperial Movement[16]
• Wagner Group

• Grey Wolves

• Misanthropic Division
• Ukrainian National Self Defense
• Berdiansk Partisan Army
• Popular Resistance of Ukraine
• Atesh (movement)

There are a number of paramilitary organisations in the United Kingdom, most of them operate in and around Northern Ireland and are a continuation of the various paramilitary groups which operated in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. Apart from these, there are a small number of white supremacist paramilitary organisations which operate in the United Kingdom.

• Real Irish Republican Army mainly in Northern Ireland
• Ulster Defence Association (UDA): Ulster loyalist group.
• Ulster Resistance mainly in Northern Ireland
• Ulster Volunteer Force mainly in Northern Ireland
• Combat 18
• Red Hand Commando (RHC): Ulster loyalist paramilitary group, linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force
• Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF): Ulster loyalist group, split from the UVF's Mid-Ulster Brigade.
• Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) (1974–): Split from the Official IRA in opposition to the OIRA's 1972 ceasefire. Mainly in Northern Ireland
• Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO) (1986–92): Formed by expelled and disaffected members of the INLA after that group started to reduce operations in the mid 1980s. The group were heavily involved in drug dealing and other criminal activities and were forcibly shut down in 1992 by the Provisional IRA.
• Irish Republican Liberation Army (IRLA) (2006–): A "self-styled vigilante group" that split from the Continuity IRA. Linked to the Loyalist Volunteer Force according to some sources.
• The name Irish Republican Army (IRA) has been used by many Irish republican groups in the 20th and 21st centuries. The following names are commonly used by the media and security services, but each group referred to themselves solely as the Irish Republican Army (IRA), and generally rejected the legitimacy of the others.
  • Irish Volunteers (1913–16) Set up to counter the Ulster Volunteers but was shut down after the Easter Rising and formed the I.R.A. (1917–22)
  • Irish Republican Army (1917–22): The original IRA, which was the official defence force of the Irish Republic and fought in the Irish War of Independence.
  • Irish Republican Army (1922–69): The anti-treaty continuation of the original IRA, active during the Irish Civil War, Irish sabotage campaign, Northern Campaign, Irish Border Campaign and the Troubles.
  • Official IRA (OIRA) (1969–72): The Official IRA was formed after a split in 1969 between different factions of the 1922 IRA. The OIRA became a more overtly political movement, advocating Marxist–Leninist principles.
  • Provisional IRA (PIRA) (1969–2005): Also known as the Provos, the Provisional IRA was the more militarily active of the two IRAs created out of the 1969 split.
  • Continuity IRA (CIRA) (1986–): Split from the Provisional IRA when that group dropped its policy of abstentionism in relation to Dáil Éireann.
  • Real IRA (RIRA) (1997–): Known in the media as the New IRA since their 2012 merger with Republican Action Against Drugs and other smaller republican militant groups, they split from the Provisional IRA over that group's support for the Irish peace process and the Good Friday Agreement.

• SDG, otherwise known as the Serbian Volunteer Guard or Arkan's Tigers. This was a paramilitary army of Serbian Nationalists under the command of Zeljko Raznatovic, active during the Yugoslav Wars.

• Hezbollah

• The Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade of Fatah
• The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas

• Nordic Strength
• Sea Org: Scientology group with roots in naval tradition. Dress in uniforms, live communally in barracks, and are organized around naval ranks. Some dispute whether it is paramilitary.