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Alameddine initially casts it as a blundering, droll misadventure—the militiaman was a high-school classmate of Raja’s who captured him by mistake while trying to take some wealthier boys hostage.
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Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2025
In 2011, when the Syrian civil war started, Soleimani was instrumental in organizing Syrian defenses and marshaling an auxiliary force of approximately 70,000 militiamen that rescued President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
—Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025
The final man, in a last-second protective reflex, bows his head and crosses his hands over it, but bullets send him flying backward, and the other militiamen join in, firing repeatedly at the dead bodies.
—Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
For the next nine months, Stuart proceeded to lead thousands of supporters, militiamen, and conscripted soldiers in a military campaign now known as the Jacobite rising of 1745.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2025
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Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2025
In 2011, when the Syrian civil war started, Soleimani was instrumental in organizing Syrian defenses and marshaling an auxiliary force of approximately 70,000 militiamen that rescued President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
—Ray Takeyh, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2025
The final man, in a last-second protective reflex, bows his head and crosses his hands over it, but bullets send him flying backward, and the other militiamen join in, firing repeatedly at the dead bodies.
—Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
For the next nine months, Stuart proceeded to lead thousands of supporters, militiamen, and conscripted soldiers in a military campaign now known as the Jacobite rising of 1745.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Militiaman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/militiaman. Accessed 5 Jan. 2026.
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militiaman
noun
mi·li·tia·man
mə-ˈlish-ə-mən 
: a member of a militia
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