Why would we intervene on behalf of the rebels in Libya and not help those in Syria?
The paper says that the rebels have the technical ability to strike not only in the region but also in Europe.
On the issue of arming the rebels, the President has said that that issue has not been ruled in or out, something you underscored in a statement yesterday.
Their remarks come two days after the United States promised to send food and medical supplies -- but not weapons -- to rebels in the first such move since the conflict began nearly two years ago.
Also on Monday, the US said it would not stand in the way of other countries arming Syrian rebels.
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Burhan Ghalioun, the professorial leader of the Syrian National Council, the main opposition group in exile, has pledged to oversee and organise the rebels, but not to equip them.
It remained stable politically until March, when a group of soldiers toppled the government, saying it had not provided adequate support for them to fight ethnic Tuareg rebels in the country's largely desert north.
But this attack is identical in pattern to many others in Darfur and the rebels are not the only targets.
The rebels said they were not given army posts promised in a 2009 deal to end a previous uprising.
Uganda does not micro-manage the rebels it supports in Congo as Rwanda does.
Turkey's Human Rights Association is investigating claims that the army has used chemical weapons against the PKK. These are probably overblown, but the refusal to hand over the bodies of 19 rebels killed in a recent clash in the south-eastern province of Hakkari has not helped.
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However, theories that Mr Kadyrov was killed by the Russians, not the rebels, are undermined by the fact that Russia's top military commander in Chechnya was seriously hurt in the bombing.
Turkey's capture of Ocalan in Kenya in 1999 did not end his role in the conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish rebels.
It maintained a strong democracy until March, when a group of soldiers toppled the government, saying it had not provided adequate equipment for them to fight ethnic Tuareg rebels roaming the vast desert in the north.
Ordinary Sierra Leoneans fear that if the peace agreement were to break down, the UN troops might not show the same resolve or resourcefulness that the Nigerians used in fighting the rebels.
His announcement in the House of Commons stopped short of arming the rebels, but he told the BBC on Sunday that the UK would not rule out doing so in future.
This is not the first time rebels have seized a train in the area.
The regime "has been using the sectarian line, but the opposition and the rebels have increasingly repeated that they do not view it in those terms, " she said.
The rebels say the weapons pledged by Gulf governments have not yet arrived in large amounts.
Correspondents say Mr Younes was not trusted by all the rebels because of his previous role in cracking down on dissidents.
But it was not clear whether the rebels managed to retain any territory they claimed in battle, and the Syrian army said it too launched an offensive.
In Rome on Thursday, Mr Kerry promised direct aid to Syrian rebels in the form of food and medical supplies, but not the weapons they say they need to win.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon praised its intervention in Mali, saying dialogue is not now possible with the rebels.
In 2008 a memorandum also promised autonomy, but the rebels did not have to lay down their arms.
The UN move comes as former rebels in Ivory Coast said on Friday they would not lay down their arms as previously announced.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December was also one of the major stories of 1979 and, like the others chronicled in "Strange Rebels, " one that was historically significant in ways not apparent until later.
Regarding the letters of May 30 on U.S. involvement in Syria: The U.S. is making a huge mistake in backing Islamic rebels in Syria and not supporting Bashar al-Assad.
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Breaking a three-month silence on the matter, President Reagan acknowledged that his administration had traded arms to Iran for the release of hostages, but said he was not aware of any diversion of funds from the arms sale to aid Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
The rebels have been pushing for military supplies and insisted in Istanbul that any weapons they received would not "fall into the wrong hands".
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An even more delicate question, raised by the rebels' poor military performance, is whether there would be any circumstance in which coalition (though not American) ground forces might go in.
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