Sentence examples for rebels position from inspiring English sources

There is little doubt that the FARC's attacks were an attempt to shore up the rebels' position before the negotiations.

As the Ministry of Defense watched the rebels position themselves closer and closer, it warned that troops would shoot if rebels approached within 200 yards of government positions.

The Kachin rebels' position on the battlefield has been considerably weakened in recent weeks with the loss of strategic hilltops near their headquarters at Laiza, a town on the border with China.

In recent years, as Bashar al-Assad's allies have weakened the rebels' position, a belief endured among opposition military leaders that if they could not win the war, Assad could not either.

Fighting was reported southwest of the capital, and any consolidation of the rebels' position would enable them to interrupt electricity from the huge Inga dam nearby and to stop food and fuel deliveries to Kinshasa from the country's sole seaport.

But General Idris said in an interview on Friday that the rebels' position had been so weakened that they would have little leverage at a Geneva meeting and thus would not attend the conference unless they received additional arms and ammunition.

It also said that the rebels positioned heavy weapons in hospital grounds.

But rebels positioned near the city are dependent on food, ammunition and supplies from Benghazi, which has its own problems.

The approach to the river and the path of any possible assault on the rebel position was dominated by thick forests, marshes and swamps.

In comments made to French radio ahead of the international conference here, France's foreign minister, Alain Juppé, called the rebel position "fair and logical".

Despite assurances that the government would not use air strikes, on July 8th Ukrainian forces hit a rebel position near an abandoned coal mine.