Assyrian Liberation Army

The Assyrian Liberation Army was a paramilitary organization operating in the Kingdom of Assyria between 76 AEE and 79 AEE, though it was officially established only in 78 AEE. It consisted mostly of former Assyrian soldiers who had fled Assyria after it was invaded by Shilhak-Inshushinak, king of Elam, during the Great Powers' War. Shilhak's new Assyrian government was headed by Ninsina and her Daughters of Ishtar, who were staunchly opposed to the previous ruling dynasty and its supporters. The retreating Assyrian soldiers spent the years during the OFK-EC War in the Levant, fighting for the Organization of Free Kingdoms against Shilhak's Eastern Coalition, with the promise that Assyria will be reconquered and they will be able to return there. 
However, the war ended in 76 AEE with the Treaty of Euphrates, which left Assyria still in Ninsina's hands, within the EC, which angered many Assyrians in the OFK and led to Tiglath-Pileser, the exiled Assyrian king, to formally leave the OFK and attempt a takeover of Assyria himself. After the war, the Kemet Intelligence Agency decided to start supplying and funding these Assyrians in order to destabilize the EC aligned kingdom, yet Tiglath was still killed and replaced by his right hand man Naram-Eil, as the latter was deemed easier to control by the KIA and less likely to deviate from their instructions than Tiglath, who many thought had already gone insane. Thus in late 76 AEE, the renegade Assyrians under Naram-Eil crossed the Euphrates and, after establishing a base near Harran, began their terror campaign in Assyria, with the help of the OFK through the KIA. In 78 AEE the Assyrian Liberation Army was officially established and received more recruits from Assyria itself. The ALA's numbers rose from about 2800 in 76 AEE to 4500 in late 78 AEE, though they started declining later as the Assyrian government and the EC started cracking down on the organization. 
Ultimately, however, the ALA was unsuccessful, and none of its actions produced any positive results for them or the OFK. This was partly due to miscommunication between them and the KIA and within the ALA itself, as there was no consensus on what actually was supposed to be done. Some wanted to truly overthrow the Assyrian government and make it into an OFK member state again, others wanted to carve out and independent kingdom for themselves within Assyria, others yet just wanted to cause chaos and destruction and profit from it as much as possible. Thus the attacks were more sporadic and had no clear end goals. They included various assassinations and assassination attempts, destruction of government buildings, arson in public areas, kidnappings, and the spreading of anti-EC propaganda. 
The most notable event was the blowing up of the cotton mills' complex in Mari in 79 AEE, which claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians and some officials, but this only hastened the end of the ALA, as it led the ECSS task force, engaging in the operation Annunitum's Wrath, tracking the ALA to Harran and there learning of its direct connection to the OFK. Once the EC rulers were informed of it, a diplomatic crisis began, as they threatened the rather unprepared OFK with another war. The crisis was eventually resolved, with the OFK - specifically the Commonwealth - being humiliated and forced to pay an indemnity to the EC. The KIA also agreed to lure out the remaining ALA members (only a few hundred of them being left after the EC purges following the ECSS findings) and execute them near the Hittite border. All the remaining ALA members, including Naram-Eil, were surrounded by the KIA agents and Commonwealth soldiers and trapped in a mountain pass near Hatti, where they were shot to death. This marked the official end of the ALA as well as any OFK involvement in Assyria.
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