Editing Fedayeen (section)

=== Armenia ===
{{main article|Armenian fedayi}}[[File:Andranik hat.png|thumb|172px|General [[Andranik Ozanian]], wearing his uniform and medals with a [[papakha]] hat]]'''''Fedayi''''' also known as the '''Armenian irregular units''' or '''Armenian militia''', were [[Armenians|Armenian]] civilians who voluntarily left their families to form self-defense units in reaction to the mass murder of Armenians and the pillage of Armenian villages by criminals, [[Turkish people|Turkish]] and [[Kurds|Kurdish]] gangs, Ottoman forces, and [[Hamidiye (cavalry)|Hamidian guards]] between the 19th and early 20th centuries. Their ultimate goal was to gain Armenian autonomy ([[Armenakan Party|Armenakans]]) or independence ([[Dashnak|Dashnaks]], [[Hunchak|Hunchaks]]) depending on their ideology. Some of the key Fedayi figures also participated in the [[Iranian Constitutional Revolution]] that commenced during the same period, upon agreement of the [[Armenian Revolutionary Federation|ARF]] leaders.<ref name="Rea2">{{cite book |author=Tony Rea and John Wright |url=https://archive.org/details/arabisraeliconfl0000reat/page/43 |title=''The Arab-Israeli Conflict'' |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=1993 |isbn=019917170X |page=[https://archive.org/details/arabisraeliconfl0000reat/page/43 43]}}</ref> 

At the onset of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenians of Artsakh began forming small detachments of volunteers and often self-described themselves as ''[[Armenian fedayi|Fedayeen]]'', inheriting the name of the fighters who actively resisted the Ottoman Empire in the final decades of the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries. The Fedayeen during this period worked against attempts by the [[Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union)|Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD)]] and [[OMON]] units of the [[Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic|Azerbaijan SSR]] to [[Operation Ring|ethnically cleanse the region of Armenians.]]  

The term has also been used to refer to members of the Armenian militant group [[Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia|ASALA]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351155564 |title=Insurgent Terrorism |date=2017-11-30 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9781351155564 |isbn=978-1-351-15556-4 |editor-last=Cromer |editor-first=Gerald}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Atanesian |first=Grigor |date=2016-08-05 |title=Armenia After the Crackdown: Old-Time Warriors Ready to Take a Stand |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2016/08/05/many-more-ready-to-take-a-stand-after-armenia-crackdown-a54873 |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=The Moscow Times |language=en}}</ref>