Chechen soldiers relax after a long night on the road to fight for Chechnya’s capital, Grozny, circa 1999. Photo by Laurent Van Der Stockt.
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SHAMIL AND SONS — Imam Shamil with sons in 1859. Born in the Dagestan region of the Caucasus, Shamil was an anti-Russian resistance leader during the Caucasian War (1817–1864). Toward the end of the war, he was captured and lived the rest of his days as a guest of the Tsar.
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Fidel Castro delivers an hours-long speech in Santa Clara, Cuba, 1959. Photo by Burt Glinn/Magnum Photos.
BOER LEADERS, vintage series of cigarette cards commemorating luminaries of the Boer Wars.
Khmer Rouge soldiers, circa Year Zero.
Guerrilla’s in the reeds - ‘44.
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IRA partisans with Seán Hogan’s Flying Column during the Irish War of Independence.
Philippine insurgents.
Syrian-Kurdish women at a funeral in Syria.
Photos of wounded mujahideen fighters from the Jihad Museum in Herat, Afghanistan. The museum is dedicated to the nine-year resistance to Soviet occupation in the 1980s.
Women of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, aka FARC. Photo by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala.
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