Sentence examples for driving rebels from inspiring English sources

Fighting has broken out near a complex linked to Syria's chemical weapons programme, in an offensive by President Bashar al-Assad's forces aimed at driving rebels from main sectors of the capital, Reuters reports citing activists.

The Syrian military has been methodically pursuing an offensive aimed at driving rebels away from the sprawling Ghouta zone and other areas near Damascus.

Syria's government says that is not the case, and that the army is driving rebels back from positions in the suburbs and outskirts of Damascus where they have tried to concentrate their offensive.

AMMAN, April 28 (Reuters) - Fighting erupted in Damascus on Sunday near a complex linked to Syria's chemical weapons programme, on the third day of an offensive by President Bashar al-Assad's forces aimed at driving rebels from main sectors of the capital, activists said.

It has not achieved the declared aim of driving rebel Houthi forces from the capital, Sanaa, and it has led to severe casualties caused by the bombing of civilian targets.

But armed groups may still be able to get contraband minerals into these centres.Moreover, the Congolese army is driving rebel groups closer to mining areas that have hitherto been considered fairly clean, such as the Maniema province and North Kivu's Bisie mine, which provides most of the country's cassiterite.

But in one area, the Qalamoun mountains on Lebanon's border with Syria, government forces, along with their allies from the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah, have been driving rebel fighters back.

The air campaign stopped him from driving the rebels from their last urban strongholds.

Angolan officials are saying privately that their government is not prepared to waste money and troops driving the rebels out of the forests of eastern Congo.

It should concentrate on driving the rebels out of the north's three main cities and keeping the urban areas safe.

The government's main victory over the weekend appeared to be driving the rebels from the town of Bin Jawwad, which they had taken Saturday night.