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The officials said that while Turkey did not seek American consent for its raids on separatist Kurdish rebels, there was an understanding that it would notify the American Embassy in Ankara before attacking.
About 10 years ago, when the country was deeply mired in a civil war between government forces and Maoist rebels, there was hardly any focus on wildlife protection in one of Nepal's most famous parks.
When the Russian bombs fell on non ISIS rebels there was a concern that Putin was more concerned with supporting Assad then defeating ISIS.
Nobody knows how many rebels there are in Ingushetia or neighbouring Dagestan.
In Colombia, officials insisted for years that the rebels there were merely bandits.
Human rights groups say that nationalist rebels there are regularly detained by intelligence operatives, tortured and sometimes summarily executed.
Not surprisingly, the rebels there are overwhelmingly Sunni, backed by the Sunni regimes of Saudi Arabia and Qatar; and Bashar's main backer is the Shia regime of Iran.
And of course, among the rebels there is a minority of fanatic Islamists with Qaeda sympathies, filling a vacuum the standoffish West declined to fill.
The rebels there are battling the Islamic State, the Pentagon said, and are also supposed to be covered by a partial cease-fire that the United States and Russia brokered in February.
Now with the tide turning against the rebels there are many questions as to what is happening to those the government are capturing, whether civilians or fighters.
In Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, another planned uprising had swiftly collapsed and the rebels there were all acquitted on lesser charges by juries outraged by the government's underhand use of spies.
