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The Tigray Defense Forces consist of former members of the gendarmerie Regional Special Forces in the Tigray Region, ENDF defectors, [6] [13] local militia, members of Tigrayan regional political parties including the TPLF, National Congress of Great Tigray, Salsay Weyane Tigray, Tigray Independence Party and others, [14] as well as numerous youth who fled to the mountains [clarification needed].
Under control of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Under control of Amhara militants (Fano) Under control of the Eritrean Defence Forces (EDF) Under control of the Tigray Defense Forces (TDF) Under control of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) Under control of Benishangul and/or Gumuz militias Contested ; Stable mixed control
The Tigray war [b] was an armed conflict that lasted from 3 November 2020 [a] to 3 November 2022. [45] [46] It was a civil war [47] that was primarily fought in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia between forces allied to the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrea on one side, and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) on the other.
The Tigray Region [A] (or simply Tigray; officially the Tigray National Regional State) [B] is the northernmost regional state in Ethiopia. The Tigray Region is the homeland of the Tigrayan, Irob and Kunama people. Its capital and largest city is Mekelle. Tigray is the fifth-largest by area, the fourth-most populous, and the fifth-most densely ...
The 3,500 consisted of 460 troops from Ethiopia (later to grow into the Tekil Brigade) [30] as well as troops from Ghana, Morocco and Tunisia. Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie raised some 3,000 Imperial Bodyguard personnel- about 10 percent of the Ethiopian army's entire strength at that time-and made it part of the UN peacekeeping force in the ...
Map illustrating the Ethiopian civil conflict as of 2022; included are al-Shabaab attacks, the Tigray War zone, and the redeployment of federal troops from the southeast to the north. An alliance between Fano , an Amhara youth militia [ 48 ] and Qeerroo , its Oromo counterpart, played a crucial role in the bringing about the political and ...
Tigray People's Liberation Front [3] The alliance was named the United Front of Ethiopian Federalist and Confederalist Forces. [3] On 31 January 2022 the ARDUF announced that it was distancing itself from the United Front of Ethiopian Federalist and Confederalist Forces after accusing Tigrayan forces of killing civilians in the Afar region. [4]
Agulae has also reportedly fallen to the TDF. The TDF claim that 10,000 Ethiopian soldiers were killed in the offensive. [123] [124] On 22 June 2021, there was an airstrike by the Ethiopian Air Force on the town of Togoga in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia on market day during the Tigray War on 22 June 2021. 64 people were killed and 180 others ...