The area, where the Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbian borders meet, is strategically important and could enable the rebel groups both in Serbia and in Macedonia to join forces.
She's a bit of a rebel, both in reality and in the films she makes.
In remarks that fit quite neatly with Russia Today's frequent criticism of all things American, Mr. Qaddafi told their correspondent Maria Finoshina: Listen, NATO and rebels both are in a hurry, they want to finish as soon as possible because they are hungry, they are tired, they want to share the cake.
A member of Guatemala's feared Kaibil unit, he had fought jungle rebels in both Guatemala's civil war and the UN campaigns in the Congo.
And Nigeria, one of the world's biggest oil producers, has rebels in both its north and south.
While most of the atrocities documented were committed by government forces, the report said, rebels in both regions had preyed on the local populations, exacting illegal taxes, carrying out executions and in one case, killing a French aid worker.
The retreat came amid a series of gains by pro-Russian rebels in both the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, and further south around the port of Mariupol.
Ukraine's army has been forced to retreat amid a series of gains by pro-Russian rebels in both the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, and further south around the port of Mariupol.
However, it is now leading a coalition that has been launching airstrikes on the jihadi rebels in both Iraq and Syria since last year and providing military assistance to Baghdad.
Though the US-led coalition has called on the help of "moderate" rebels in both countries to fight IS on the ground, its provision of arms and training for Kurds in Iraq has been consigned through the Iraqi government, under which the Kurdish militia technically fall.
