They're armed.

Armed Forces

Contemporary armed conflicts have blurred the distinction between international and internal armed conflicts.

IV. Armed conflict

For example, terrorist or counter terrorist actions may entail resort to armed force between States giving rise to an international armed conflict, as was the case in Afghanistan in 2002, or a non international armed conflict involving armed confrontations between a State's armed forces and a relatively organized dissident armed group or between such groups within the territory of a State.

Children in armed conflict

Armed Forces of Liberia

Prevention of armed conflict

Violence in armed conflict

Children and armed conflict

Children in armed conflicts

Children and armed conflict.

Prevention of armed conflict

Prevention of armed conflict

Women and Armed Conflict

New Liberian armed forces

Children and armed conflict

Prevention of armed conflict'

The armed rebellion has ended but it has had after effects, including armed banditry, bringing about lasting vulnerability.

Efforts by both the Government and the armed groups to control armed elements are often insufficient or ineffective.

Children affected by armed conflict

IX. Piracy and armed robbery

They armed themselves with guns.

Protecting children in armed conflict

Armed conflicts also hamper development.

(e) Armed bandits and outlaws.

Protecting children in armed conflicts

Internal armed conflicts could affect the operation of treaties as much as, if not more than international armed conflicts.

It includes combatants affected by force downsizing, armed groups allied to the signatories of the agreement and foreign armed groups.

They fuel and prolong armed conflicts.

In support of Saleh s armed forces.

He is armed to the teeth.

Effects of armed conflicts on treaties.

(b) Violations attributed to armed groups

Protection of civilians in armed conflict.

Protection of civilians in armed conflict

Effects of armed conflicts on treaties

Effects of armed conflicts on treaties.

on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe

Armed gangs were roaming the streets.

Prevention of armed conflict P.12 .

Armed conflict within Chapter VII operations

The Soul Sea is also armed, with a much bigger gun, and often accompanied the Alpha Serengeti as an armed escort .

Roberts, Environmental Issues in International Armed Conflict, in R. J. Grunawalt et al., Protection of the Environment During Armed Conflict 222 (1996).

(b) Armed conflict means a state of war or a conflict which involve armed operations which by their nature or extent are likely to affect the operation of treaties between States parties to the armed conflict or between States parties to the armed conflict and third States, regardless of a formal declaration of war or other declaration by any or all of the parties to the armed conflict.