[Types_with_Fist]

This is worse than "militants" or "insurgents" or "gunmen".

"Group" kind of makes it sound like a bunch of neighbors getting together for a backyard barbeque.

[Bernard]

It was a group of Michael Moore Freedom Fighters.

[followerofchrist]

"Group" kind of makes it sound like a bunch of neighbors getting together for a backyard barbeque."

Chechen terrorists are called "rebels." That sounds like James Dean's crowd, a rebellious gang of youths out of the Leave it to Beaver era.