Tag: Rebel
Rebel leader in east Ukraine killed in blast
MOSCOW: The leader of the Russian-backed separatist Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, Alexander Zakharchenko, is believed to have been killed in an explosion in...
Air strikes pound rebel strongholds, gas chokes civilians in Syria
IDLIB: Warplanes launched heavy attacks on the two last major rebel-held areas in Syria, killing at least 29 people in the Ghouta suburb near...
Yemen rebel alliance collapses as ‘street war’ shakes capital
SANAA: Gun battles forced shops and schools to close in Yemen’s capital on Sunday as residents warned a three-year rebel alliance was collapsing into a...
Sri Lanka’s president pardons rebel who plotted to kill him
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena marked his first year in office on Friday by pardoning a Tamil Tiger rebel convicted of plotting to murder...
Pak team reaches ‘holy land’
Pakistani delegation arrives in Saudia for talks over Yemen crisis as PM Sharif calls for safe evacuation of stranded Pakistanis in Yemen
As Prime Minister...
Syria fights off rebel advance on Damascus
Syrian government forces have bombarded several rebel strongholds in the suburbs of Damascus to quell the fighters battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad...
AIRSTRIKE ‘KILLS 60’ IN SYRIA
More than 60 people were killed in a regime airstrike on a bakery in a rebel-held town on Sunday, monitors said, as peace envoy...
Syrian fighters join forces against al-Assad
Syria’s rebel leaders have agreed to come under a united command in a bid to integrate diverse fighting groups and streamline the route for...
DRC rebel leader heads to Uganda for talks
Sultani Makenga, leader of the M23 armed group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has travelled to the to the Ugandan capital Kampala for...
Six Colombian police killed in rebel attack
Six Colombian police officers were killed Monday in an attack blamed on leftist FARC guerrillas, regional police sources told AFP. The officers were gunned...
Troops enter key rebel district of Homs
Syrian troops entered the rebel district of Khaldiyeh in the besieged central city of Homs on Tuesday, state television said.
“Our valiant armed forces have...
Tajik rebel chief hands in weapons as truce holds
An ex-warlord in Tajikistan blamed for the murder of a regional security chief has laid down his arms, the interior ministry said Monday, as...
Syria army shells Aleppo rebel districts
The Syrian army shelled rebel-held districts of commercial capital Aleppo Sunday as fighting flared anew around a southwestern neighbourhood that rebel fighters had quit...
Syria army pounds rebel-held areas of Aleppo: NGOs
Syria's army, locked in a fierce battle for control of Aleppo, pounded rebel-held areas of the commercial capital on Thursday, rights activists reported.
An...
Three dead in breakaway rebel attack in Philippines
A breakaway group of Muslim rebels used chainsaws to launch simultaneous attacks across 11 towns in the southern Philippines Monday, leaving at least three...
Syria rebels say at ‘gates of victory’
The Syrian National Council sounded a defiant note in a an overnight statement, saying fierce clashes in cities across the country was a sign...
PHF asks rebel players to explain
The Pakistan Hockey Federation has on Friday issued show cause noticed to some of the senior members of the national hockey team for teir...
