ZAWIYAH, Libya — The Libyan rebels challenging Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi demonstrated their increasing military coordination and firepower on Sunday, as defecting officers in the east took steps to establish a unified command while their followers in this rebel-held city, just outside the leader's stronghold in the capital, displayed tanks, Kalashnikovs and antiaircraft guns.
When the loyalist reinforcements rolled into the capital aboard tanks and armored vehicles and began to wrest the initiative, the rebels began to break.
Wiles, 30, who remembers the chaos after the Russian capital markets tanked 70% in 1998, is much more confident about the new EU members' stability.
Peter Kreko of the Political Capital think tank in Budapest says he believes Mr Vona "wants to move the party towards the centre, and push out the extremist elements.
In late 2008, with Sri Lankan soldiers advancing on Kilinochchi, the Tigers' capital, a tank shell flattened their home.
The Chadian military struggled to regain control of the capital, Ndjamena, using tanks and helicopter gunships, officials said.
WASHINGTON — Yemen's political stalemate flared into violence on Monday when forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh fought opposition tribesmen for six hours in the heart of Sana, the capital, with guns, tanks and rocket-propelled grenades.
United States troops began a gradual encirclement of Baghdad on Friday, apparently as part of a strategy to isolate the capital, and American tanks were reported moving into the city this morning.
As Mr. Saakashvili tried to assure the capital, two Russian tanks were parked inside the gate of a refurbished military base in Senaki that until two days ago had been a Georgian military outpost.
All this throws profound light on many things - not least Godard's sense that cinema is an occupied country, one in which American capital has stationed tanks at key points of the film industry stopping him from doing what he wants as freely as he would like.
