Tag: Rebel

Somali government forces backed by African Union troops moved cautiously on Sunday into areas of the famine-struck capital abandoned the day before by Shebab...

An oil tanker laden with tonnes of petrol steamed into the port of Benghazi on Thursday, with rebels on board claiming they seized the...

A deadline for strongman Moamer Gaddafi to step down and remain in the country has expired, the chief of Libya’s rebel Transitional National...

Sixteen rebel fighters have been killed and another 126 wounded in two days of fierce fighting for control of Zliten, the last coastal city...

Fresh blasts rocked Tripoli on Sunday after veteran Libyan leader Moamar Gaddafi vowed never to give in to mounting calls to go into exile...

Germany on Monday gave official recognition to Libya’s rebels, amid a surge in fighting across the country and as strongman Moamer Gaddafi said over...

Syrian tanks and helicopters stormed the town of Jisr al-Shughour on Sunday, residents said, and state television reported heavy clashes between army troops and...

Maoist rebels killed 15 police officers in the jungles of India’s central state of Chhattisgarh in two separate bomb blasts, police said on Friday,...

Forces loyal to embattled Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi killed 20 people and wounded more than 80 when they bombarded western Misrata region with shells...

Kuwait, a major OPEC producer, is heading for a deep political crisis as a rebellious parliament steps up its pressure on the government and...

Moamer Gaddafi's government was mulling extending on Wednesday a deadline for rebels in Libya's third city Misrata to lay down their arms after the...

The besieged Libyan rebel city of Misrata braced for a new bombardment by Moamer Gaddafi's forces on Tuesday as an ultimatum for its surrender...

NATO bombs destroyed Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi's office in his immense Tripoli residence on Monday, while rebels pushed forward against the strongman's troops...

BRUSSELS - NATO refused to apologise Friday for a deadly airstrike on Libyan rebel tanks, saying that the military alliance was unaware that the opposition was using such vehicles.
"I'm not apologising," Rear Admiral Russell Harding, deputy commander of NATO's Libya operations, told a news briefing.
"The situation on the ground, as I said, was extremely fluid and remains extremely fluid. Up until yesterday we had no information that the TNC or opposition forces were using

WASHINGTON - The international coalition's strikes on forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have enabled Libyan rebels to regroup and attempt an advance west, but US officials maintain Washington will not take decisive sides in the conflict.
President Barack Obama sought in his speech Monday to reconcile the fact that he wants Gaddafi gone with the view that pursuing a policy of regime change through military means could spell disaster.
"If we tried to overthrow Gaddafi by force,

MOSCOW - The Chechen Islamist rebel leader who is Russia's most wanted man has issued an appeal for recruits for a "total war" against the Russian state, in a new video message posted on Thursday. "A total war is in progress, fight the enemy where ever you can," Doku Umarov said standing alongside two other militants in a snow-covered forest in a video posted on militant website hunafa.com.
As well as repeating calls for women to join the rebellion, Umarov called on Russian

JUBA - Renegade militia fighters clashed with south Sudan's army for a second time in three weeks, both sides said, reigniting fears for the stability of the oil-producing region in the countdown to its independence. Rebel leader George Athor told Reuters just short of 100 people died in the latest fighting on Sunday in the south's Jonglei state - where France's Total oil giant is due to start exploring.
The south's army said fighting continued on Monday but added Athor's death