For a brief moment, I imagined rebels stopping and raiding the bus.
The four Serbs and the rebels stopped in a local cafe for drinks.
The next day, as Mr. Assad insisted that the rebels stop shooting first, Mr. Nasrallah called on all Syrians — "people, regime, state, army" — to lay down their arms "simultaneously".
He said his rebels stopped fighting when they lost their base at Ka Mar Pa Law, just inside Myanmar, in early 2000 to Burmese forces.
4. JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2012 ZABADANI Resistance near Damascus prevents the government from retaking a town The government negotiates a cease-fire in Zabadani after rebels stop the advance of security forces on Jan . 18
On that occasion, the rebels stopped at the city gates, content to have sent an emphatic message that forced Congo's president, Joseph Kabila, to pick up the phone to Rwanda's leader, Paul Kagame.
A few masked rebels stopped to help me and told me not to worry; that they are my neighbours and that I can stay at home but the plane was shooting the city and it was risky to stay.
BAB AL-SALAM, Syria — When Syrian rebels stopped two buses of Lebanese travelers in the spring and took 11 passengers hostage, they set off a cascade of fallout: riots at the Beirut airport, retaliation kidnappings against Syrians in Lebanon and a deepening of the sectarian character of the war.
That is, the Obama administration will be sending small arms to the rebels, stopping short of the anti-tank and anti-aircraft weaponry desired by the rebels.
So it was inevitable that, at some point, the rebels would stop relying on the West to ship over weapons, and instead work out how to make them themselves.
Columbian Rebels Will Stop Collecting War Taxes The leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has ordered his troops to stop collecting taxes in territories it dominates.
