Sentence examples for military rebels from inspiring English sources

But plans among military rebels to overthrow the government seem merely to be on hold.

ReprintsMr Preston puts the number of those who died in battle at 200,000, after Nationalist military rebels rose against the democratically elected Republican government in 1936.

The most shameful absence was of the eventual victors in the 20th century's long war of ideologies the fence-sitting liberal democracies led by Britain, France and America that failed to support an elected republican government against Franco's military rebels, thereby emboldening their backers.Like any long war with multiple fronts, Spain's is hard to narrate.

The Alawite-led military, rebels said, set about forcing Sunni families away from villages and neighborhoods, and established a network of outposts, often supported with tanks and armored fighting vehicles, and within range of supporting rocket and artillery fire from larger outposts near the highway.

The story begins after a bloody coup and is narrated in alternating chapters by two 16-year-olds: Laokolé, who flees home with her family ahead of marauding military rebels; and a member of a rebel faction who calls himself Johnny Mad Dog and goes on a joy ride of killing, raping and looting.

Clashes between military rebels and Syrian forces are growing more frequent and the defectors have managed to take control of small pieces of territory in the north as well as parts of Homs province, which is Syria's largest, stretching from the border with Lebanon in the west to Iraq and Jordan in the east.

The military rebelled and opened the airport in Karachi, and General Musharraf had Mr. Sharif arrested and put in jail.

Many have died in pursuit of that goal, and the death rate is increasing as military, rebel and terrorist groups put journalists onto their hit lists.

Declaring common cause with Mr. Assad, Hezbollah fighters last week helped the Syrian military rout rebels from Qusayr, a rebel stronghold near the Lebanese border.

On Friday, the military routed rebels from a strategic town in eastern Sri Lanka.

The Ukrainian military accuses rebels of using heavy artillery around a number of locations in recent days.