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This region along the Pakistan border was still, after nearly eight and a half years of the War on Terror, a safe haven for Afghan insurgents, foreign jihadists, and terrorist cells—often working in concert.†
p. 6.1

insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
It was a land of high-value targets: raids in the region almost always resulted in fruitful intelligence, which led to further dismantling of the insurgency against the Afghan government and yielded more pieces to the puzzle that eventually revealed the whereabouts of bin Laden.†
p. 6.1
The valley was a deadly piece of real estate where insurgents could strike coalition forces and then retreat into their mountain strongholds—villages and valleys whose inhabitants, in many cases, had never seen an American.†
p. 6.4

insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
There were lines on the map beyond which the insurgents knew they would not be pursued.†
p. 6.5
Even though this particular hamlet was a way-over-the-line safe haven for insurgents, Adam and his teammates began planning to either capture or kill James.†
p. 6.6
Lately, however, the insurgents and jihadists had begun shaving to appear younger and were even donning burkas to disguise themselves as women, to better their chances of escape.†
p. 6.9
This had to be a surgical strike, aimed at one insurgent and his cell of fighters who, if not eliminated by Adam's team, would continue to attack American or coalition forces.†
p. 7.9
The swift victory against the Taliban regime then shifted to a counterinsurgency mission of fighting hard-line Taliban insurgents and their allies—foreign jihadists pouring in from Pakistan and Iran.†
p. 160.8

insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
In addition to fighting these insurgents and jihadists and providing security for the newly formed Afghan government, the U.S. military's priority mission remained the manhunt for Osama bin Laden, the archi tect of the September 11 attacks on American soil.†
p. 160.9
For the first few weeks in Iraq, while Adam's teammates were conducting special reconnaissance, sniper missions, and raids—capturing or killing insurgents, clearing houses, and gathering intelligence—Adam tirelessly performed a myriad of support tasks while based in the northern city of Mosul.†
p. 172.4
He constructed the C4 charges his team used for explosive entry; he took aerial photographs of target buildings and neighborhoods from airplanes and helicopters; he participated in the interrogation of captured insurgents; and most importantly, he pored over intelligence and played a lead role in planning missions.†
p. 172.6
As a member of the support team for Team TWO in Mosul, Adam had planned nearly a dozen successful direct-action raids and missions that resulted in the capture or killing of numerous insurgents.†
p. 177.8
The Team TEN SEALS had been sent out on June 28 as part of a Quick Reaction Force to aid a four-man SEAL reconnaissance team that was outnumbered, out-positioned, and pinned down by anticoalition insurgents in a fierce firefight in the mountainous Kunar Province.†
p. 185.2
Impossible to identify ("They don't carry the 'I'm a bad guy' flag," says one SEAL), these hard-line Taliban insurgents, foreign jihadists, aspiring terrorists, and good old-fashioned organized criminals all had the same goal: upset any attempts at regional (thus national) stability for either their own monetary gain or to accomplish Allah's will.†
p. 214.1
The second battle was against the Taliban insurgency.†
p. 215.5
During the assault two of our brothers from the Navy were shot and killed while clearing a building that was occupied by terrorist insurgents.†
p. 227.4

insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
Once the identities of dozens of the highest-level leaders—a mixture of foreign terrorists and domestic insurgents—were identified and confirmed, the DEVGRU SEALs were tasked with either killing or capturing them in their homes and safe houses, almost always under cover of darkness.†
p. 229.3
This enemy, however, is often content to die, especially if that means taking "infidels" along, and the firefight continued until every armed insurgent was killed.†
p. 231.9 *
Awakened by the gunfire, the insurgents at the other compound had also fought to their deaths.†
p. 231.9

insurgents = members of an irregular armed force that fight a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
Seventeen terrorists and insurgents were killed that night.†
p. 233.1
Special Warfare Operator First Class (Sea, Air, and Land) Brown maneuvered under intense enemy fire with his assault team and engaged the insurgents at close range with accurate small arms fire and grenades.†
p. 234.5
On July 13, 2008, U.S. Army soldiers based at a remote command outpost near the village of Wanat in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan, were surrounded and attacked by an estimated two hundred Taliban insurgents.†
p. 242.4
This unusually heavy enemy activity—generally reserved for the insurgents' spring offensive—punctuated the ever-present danger of an ambush or an attack.†
p. 243.5
And it was unlikely that anything in these SEALs' careers would match their rotation in 2008, when they'd obliterated the network of insurgents and IED builders in Iraq with back-to-back nightly raids and sometimes back-to-back raids in a single night.†
p. 259.9
A place that was a sanctuary for the insurgents, a place where they felt safe and beyond the reach of the American military.†
p. 298.5
Seven of the ten men I had met with from SEAL Team SIX—Brian Bill, Chris Campbell, John Faas, Kevin Houston, Matt Mason, Tom Ratzlaff, and Heath Robinson—were locked and loaded on a CH-47 helicopter that was approaching a landing zone in Wardak Province when an insurgent-fired rocket-propelled grenade struck the aft rotor blade, causing the CH-47 to crash into a dry creek bed and explode.†
p. 314.7

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(1) (insurgent)
a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More rarely, Insurgent is used as an adjective to indicate rebelliousness.

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