Western oil companies were paying the northern Islamic government to gain access to the oilfields, while Christian groups in America were pouring money into the south in the belief that by propping up the rebels they were establishing a vanguard against Islam.
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Are you going to -- because his flags are -- their flags have come up with the rebels.
The Colombian government has recently stepped up pressure on the rebels, offering rewards to guerrillas who surrender and free hostages.
The Colombian government recently has stepped up pressure on the rebels, offering rewards to the guerrillas if they surrender and free their hostages.
The army has fallen out with the local militiamen, known as Kamajors, and taken up with the former rebels, bringing thousands of them to the capital.
The peace talks between the Khartoum government and Darfur's main rebel groups broke up last week after the rebels accused the government of breaching a ceasefire agreed earlier this year.
Up to 800, 000 people have been displaced since the rebels took up arms against the Kinshasa government in May.
The Gulf Arabs are loth to cough up the cash they promised to support the rebels.
He broadcast from a studio in the basement, serving up nightly denunciations of NATO, the rebels and the foreign journalists in the hotel ... while predicting Gadhafi's imminent victory over his enemies.
The decision ramps up the possibility of weapons shipments to the Syrian rebels and "sends a very strong message from Europe to the Assad regime, " says Britain's foreign secretary.
Ministers and leaders of the parties in the seven-member coalition complain that deals with the rebels are being stitched up by a small group of officials answering directly to the 84-year-old prime minister, Girija Koirala.
In the fighting that followed the decision by rebels from the KIA to take up arms once more, about 75, 000 people have been displaced from their homes to flee to both government and rebel-held land.
In April, an assault was launched against the rebels holed up in the city, after they murdered and mutilated four American ex-soldiers.
The government set up the camps after the authorities launched an operation against the rebels whom they accuse of killing and kidnapping villagers.
The U.S. so far has balked at sending weapons to the rebels, fearing the arms could end up in the hands of al-Qaida-linked groups or other extremists in the opposition ranks.
At the joint press conference, televised live from the prime minister's residence, where the forthcoming interim government was announced, the proceedings were conducted in darkness until the rebels rigged up some light bulbs.
The authorities have blamed the blast on leftist rebels who have stepped up attacks in Bogota since the inauguration of President Alvaro Uribe in August.
As part of an effort to stop the Presevo Valley rebels linking up with a similar group in nearby Macedonia, Serb forces deployed into a southern section of the buffer zone on Wednesday with NATO approval.
Vij said the suspected rebels triggered a land mine that blew up one of the cars.
Aid agencies wonder, and fear, what might happen were the rebels to step up their activities.
Newport said the rebels have set up roadblocks so the rangers are making their way through woods south to safety.
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Earlier, the rebels also blew up a railway track near Untari railway station and a school building in Chatra district.
This aid, like the NATO no-fly zone preventing Gaddafi from using his air force, and the British military trainers now being deployed to Libya to teach the rebels to fight, will probably end up serving no greater end then prolonging the current stalemate.
Fear of arrest has kept Mr Kony and three of his four cronies away from the peace talks in Juba. (The other has reportedly been killed.) Martin Ojul, the LRA's chief negotiator at the talks, promised this week that they would show up in southern Sudan along with the rest of the rebels, as required by the terms of the truce.
Those charges implicated him in the killings of up to 100, 000 Kurds during the 1988 Anfal campaign against Kurdish rebels -- a campaign that included the use of poison gas against Kurdish towns in northern Iraq.
Members of Syria's Sunni Muslim majority dominate the ranks of the rebels fighting to topple Assad's regime, made up mostly of the minority Alawite sect an offshoot group of Shiite Islam that the president's family also belongs to.
UN's human-rights investigator, Sergio Pinheiro, backed this up, saying that civilian support for the rebels was weakening.
The chief Colombian government negotiator has said he wants to speed up the pace of peace talks with Farc rebels.
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The fighting came as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was meeting with Syrian opposition leaders in London to discuss ways to step up aid to rebels fighting to topple the regime in Damascus.
To keep up their end of the bargain with the rebels they will therefore have to attract much larger crowds than they have managed so far and this looks unlikely unless their leaders are changed.
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