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An anti-drug brigade will soon begin backing police efforts to eradicate coca fields in two southern provinces largely controlled by Colombia's most powerful guerrilla group.

Worse, the PYD and the YPG are the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers Partyy (PKK), a powerful guerrilla organisation that has been fighting the Turkish army since 1984.

AT AN open-air ceremony in the small jungle town of San Vicente del Caguan, Andres Pastrana, the Colombian president, and representatives of the country's most powerful guerrilla group, this week formally declared the opening of peace talks.

ReprintsOverwhelmingly backed by Lebanon's Shias, some 40% of the population, Hizbullah has long insisted that its powerful guerrilla force, now believed to have some 50,000 rockets supplied by Iran and Syria, is untouchable.

A10 Colombian Leader Softens Tone President-elect Álvaro Uribe Vélez held out the possibility of negotiating with guerrilla commanders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the country's largest and most powerful guerrilla organization, under United Nations mediation.

Negotiators from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the country's most powerful guerrilla group, met with government officials in a southern demilitarized enclave for closed-door talks for the first time since November.

The current peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), the country's oldest and most powerful guerrillas, are different.

The rump of the once-powerful guerrillas survives through drug-trafficking.Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, appointed a member of his ruling party to a new post as head of government of Caracas, the capital, equipped with most of the powers and budget previously held by the elected mayor.

From their start in the 1960s when a number of students and intellectuals formed the movement based on an uprising in a Bengal village, Naxalbari, they have evolved into a powerful rural guerrilla group covering five eastern states.

Assad's forces have been on the offensive since last month when the army, backed by militants from the powerful Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah, recaptured a border town near Lebanon straddling supply lines between Damascus and Syria's seacoast.

Supporters, among them top military commanders, say it is needed to combat powerful Marxist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries fighting in the increasingly brutal 37-year-old war.