Sentence examples for rebels loss from inspiring English sources

The rebels' loss enabled Erik to gain his former position.

And according to one opposition MP, this show of rare unity may have also contributed to the rebels' loss of nerve.

They also say that the rebels' loss of their haven in Fallujah, where bombs were assembled and foreign volunteers and others trained to deliver them, has reduced the number of big attacks.

The rebels' loss of the town – which holds symbolic value to both sides in the country's vicious civil war – after three weeks of bitter fighting comes amid reports that the regime is readying an attempt to re-take Aleppo.

At the main front, which has moved back and forth in a fringe between the rebel-held east and Gadhafi-ruled west, the rebels' losses this week underlined the inferiority of their equipment, training and organization, compared to the regime's.

If loyalist troops do win definitive control of the prison, it will be seen as another blow to the opposition in advance of the 3 June presidential election, following the rebel loss of central Homs early this month.

Officials said they had no information about rebel losses because the Maoists usually carry away their fallen comrades.

That, too, is probably an understatement, but it is considerably higher than previously acknowledged rebel losses, reflecting the intensity of the recent fighting.

Moreover, as Colonel Qaddafi's forces have suffered attrition, they have seemed to rely more on land mines to defend their positions, a menace that could drive up rebel losses when they move forward.

Rebel spokesmen at Misurata, a port city considered a linchpin of the wider war, acknowledged that rebel forces had taken new casualties in fighting there, with six rebels dead, but that rebel losses, amounting to several dozen killed in recent days, had resulted from a push to gain ground in a rural area west of the city.

But administration officials are increasingly concerned about the coalition's fractiousness, rebel losses in the battlefield, the growing role of radical Islamists in the insurgency and the increasing confidence of President Bashar al-Assad, diminishing any incentive for him to engage in peace talks.