Sentence examples for on rebels from inspiring English sources

Calvin Sims (NYT) PHILIPPINES: WAR ON REBELS -- President Joseph Estrada said he had ordered "all out" military action against Muslim separatist guerrillas in the south.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Agence France-Presse) — Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo agreed Sunday to accept an international force to take on rebels in eastern Congo, and the African Union said it was ready to send peacekeepers there.

While past grenade attacks have been aimed mainly at genocide survivors or genocide memorials and were often blamed on rebels, the recent ones have struck at commercial areas, creating a new level of tension in the capital.

Norimitsu Onishi CONGO: PLEA TO REBELS -- The Vatican has called on rebels in Congo to allow a local archbishop to return home after he was banned for reportedly making statements inciting violence against ethnic Tutsi.

(AP) ASIA SRI LANKA: ASSAULT ON REBELS Government troops began a huge offensive to recapture a Tamil rebel stronghold in northern Sri Lanka, sending planes and tanks into the attack.

Marshall is even keener on rebels.

Hezbollah guerrillas are leading an assault on rebels in Qusayr.

Less than a quarter-mile on, rebels controlled the area around the Grand Mosque.

Colonel Qaddafi's forces appeared to make little headway in an assault on rebels in several cities.

Russian attacks on rebels would probably alarm Turkey, a Nato member.

He says his fighters have focused their efforts on rebels, not civilians.