"Konna is under our control this evening but we are still conducting mopping-up operations, " said Lt Col Diarra Kone, though he warned that some rebels might still be in the town.
Depending on the wording of the motion, we could see some Labour rebels.
An ominous echo of that came with the news, from Russian commanders, that some 500 rebels had returned to the ruined city.
South African newspapers reported on Sunday that some of the rebels whom the soldiers had been fighting were teenagers.
But at least there is a sense that Iraq's new rulers have a chance of reaching out to some of the rebels.
Another former Ghazni governor, Afghan intelligence chief Asadullah Khaled, provided covert aid to some of the rebels, Mr. Khaled and rebel leaders said.
In Libya the rebels had some form of government going in, but little control over the guns on the ground.
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The Obama administration shares these concerns and believes that some of the Syrian rebels have direct links to al Qaeda's leadership in both Pakistan and Iraq.
Some fear that the rebels are being deliberately intransigent, in the hope that the dire humanitarian crisis will force the world powers to send in troops.
It came amid reports that Peru's army had launched an operation to remove some 300 Shining Path rebels who work closely with cocaine traffickers in the region.
Two initial British attempts failed to rescue Lucknow, only emboldening more Indian soldiers and landowners to revolt until 30, 000 rebels, by some estimates, bombarded the Residency with artillery fire.
Some have kinship ties with the rebels in Darfur and have supplied them with arms.
Earlier in the week, Bozize had offered to release some political prisoners, but the rebels said the gestures were too little, too late.
This small, professional force succeeded where a much larger but poorly-organised UN force had failed, by hitting the rebels hard and restoring some basic functions of government.
Had he been younger he might have outwitted the rebels, but at 78 some of the old fire had gone.
Turkey has also backed rebels in neighboring Syria, and some violence from that conflict has spilled over the border.
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The anti-Taliban rebels say their 250 fighters control some 50 of Andar's 400 or so villages and are in active pursuit of 50 more.
Officials suggested this week that some foreign fighters might have been among the rebels involved in the seizing of hundreds of hostages at a Moscow theatre.
Some argue that the 2009 deal with former rebels that bought - at a high price - a measure of peace to the Kivus was destined to fail.
The World Bank aid package is to support a peace deal signed in February between DR Congo and its neighbours, some of whom are accused of backing the rebels.
Since the president announced, on October 21st, that Zimbabwean troops would attack the rebels in their eastern strongholds, some 10, 000 soldiers have been flown to Congo, bringing the total to an estimated 13, 000.
Reagan sounds genuinely surprised in his diary about the Iran-contra mess, in which his people sold weapons to Iran and then sent some of the money to the contras, the rebels trying to overthrow the government of Nicaragua.
Some 6, 000 of his troops have joined the rebels, who number many thousands of volunteers but have only rudimentary equipment.
He said that some people had tried to resume work, as the rebels had requested, but there was no public transport.
The United States and Western allies have staunchly opposed the Assad government, but it has balked at arming Syria's rebels, who have been getting weapons from some Arab nations and seizing or buying them from Syrian soldiers.
Mahmoud said some rebel commanders were killed in the fighting on Thursday and rebels threatened to bombard Lebanese territory in retaliation.
The Melbourne Rebels-bound fly-half had been firing some excellent wide passes but when he tried his luck once too often, Maddock picked it off and cantered under the posts.
Western analysts say the plan by the Economic Community of West African States to deploy some 3, 000 troops to reclaim areas held by the rebels may just make the situation worse.
The region is some distance from fighting in the north between the army and Tuareg rebels.
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