ACG - Armed Criminal Groups
ADF Nalu - Forces Alliées Démocratiques et Armée Nationale pour la Libération d’Ouganda (DRC)
ALP - Afghan Local Police
AMISOM - African Union Forces
ANSF - Afghan National Security Forces
AOG - Armed Opposition Group
ARC ‐ Armée Révolutionnaire du Congo
AS - Al Shabaab (see also HSM)
BBIED - Body-borne Improvised Explosive Device
CF - Coalition Force (Syria)
CPX - Complex (attack)—two or more weapons/explosive devices
EAF - External Armed Forces / Forces Armées Etrangères
FAMA - Forces Armées du Mali
FAR - Forces armées régulières
FARDC – Force Armée de La République Démocratique du Congo
FDLR - Force Démocratique pour la Libération du Rwanda (DRC)
FNL - Force National de La Libération (un groupe armé du Burundi) (DRC)
GN - Gendarmerie Nationale
GOA - Groupes d’Opposition Armés
GoA - Government of Afghanistan
GoI - Government of Iraq
GoK - Government of Kenya
GoM - Government of Mali
GoS - Government of Syria
GoU - Government of Ukraine
HSM - Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen (see also AS)
IAF – Irregular armed forces / Forces armées irrégulières
IDF - Indirect Fire
IDP - Internally Displaced Persons
IEA - Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban)
IED - Improvised Explosive Device / Engin Explosif Improvisé
IF - Indirect Fire
IMF - International Military Forces
INGO - International Non-Governmental Organisation
IP - Iraqi Police
KDF - Kenyan Defence Forces
KPR - Kenyan Police Reserve
LEM - Local Ethnic Militias (Syria)
MINUSMA - Mission Multidimensionnelle Intégrée des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation au Mali / United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali
MONUSCO - Mission de l’Organisation de Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation du Congo
MRC - Mombasa Republican Council (Kenya)
NEP - North Eastern Province (Kenya)
NMI - Nyuki Movement for Independence (Kenya)
OAG - Organised Armed Group
OI – Organisation Internationale
PBIED - Personne portant un engin explosif
RCIED - Engin explosif improvisé contrôlé à distance
PGM - Pro-Government Militia
PM ‐ Police Militaire
PN - Police Nationale
PNC - Police National du Congo
PPIED - Engin Explosif Improvisé à Pression
RAF - Forces Armées Régulières
RPG - Rocket Propelled Grenade
SAF - Small Arms Fire (from a machine gun such as AK-47)
SF - Security Forces
SNG - Somali National Government
SNGF - Somalia National Government Forces
SVBIED - Suicide Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device
UVIED - Under Vehicle Improvised Explosive Device
UXO - Unexploded Ordnance
VBIED - Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device / Engin Explosif Improvisé placé dans un Véhicule