Sentence examples for secular rebels from inspiring English sources

"The secular rebels are watching us closely".

But Islamists with links to an extremist group, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, quickly overran the secular rebels.

The group has been trying to make inroads into areas in the north that are held by more secular rebels.

All are held by the Free Syrian Army, secular rebels, or non-Isis Islamists including Jaysh al-Fath (the Army of Conquest).

For three years, Iran's aid, arms, and advisers have helped Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad, to beat back both secular rebels and Islamic extremists.

The child of Russian Jews who immigrated to Israel, secular rebels against their own parents' Orthodox belief, he grew up on a kibbutz that followed Zionism's ethos of working and defending the land.

"You could have a situation where the more secular rebel groups could well be fighting the more Islamist-oriented groups," he said.

The Saudi government appears to be trying to finance more secular rebel groups, Maysara said, while the Qataris appear to be closer to the Muslim Brotherhood.

The one place where moderate and secular rebel groups had some strength was in southern Syria between Damascus and the Jordanian border.

"If we see an Assad fighter plane overhead and there's a 50-50 chance we'll hit it, we don't strike," a secular rebel told the independent Web site Syria Deeply.

By late 2012 the assortment of mostly secular rebel groups that had been the mainstay of the armed opposition appeared to be weakening as a result of infighting and exhaustion, and Islamist forces took on a more prominent role.