Sentence examples for surging rebels from inspiring English sources

The antidrug fight here has not worked as planned, with coca plantings continuing to rise, and there was a general feeling that something drastic needed to be done to help Colombia battle the surging rebels.

This week, rebels surged into Bukavu, one of the most important cities in eastern Congo, which nestles on the border with Rwanda.

The rebels surged forward and grabbed the man by the arms, pulling him clear of the pipe and hauling him to his feet.

The ease with which, for a while, the rebels surged forward, and are now being pushed back, shows how vulnerable the colonel and his supporters are.

Arms smuggling in particular surged last year, as rebels in Libya grabbed huge stocks of weapons accumulated during the paranoid reign of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi.Complaints from Israel and its Western allies over Sinai's increasing lawlessness have often been met with protests that the 1979 peace treaty restricted Egypt's army to a token, lightly armed presence.

"Now the president is saying we have to remove Qaddafi," Mr. Romney said at the time, adding, "Who's going to own Libya if we get rid of the government there?" But on Monday evening, as the rebels surged through Tripoli, Mr. Romney told Neil Cavuto of Fox Business Network that "the world celebrates the idea of getting rid of Qaddafi".

Yemen's crisis escalated when northern Houthi rebels surged south, battling forces allied to Mr Hadi by the beginning of March.

Tuareg rebel activity surged in 2012 after many of the Tuareg rebels who had traveled to Libya to fight for Muammar al-Qaddafi in that country's 2011 revolt returned to Mali, well-armed from their time in combat.

Of late fighting between government troops and the rebels has surged, while tensions will be further stoked by this week's murder in Kiev of a pro-Russian Ukrainian journalist and the strange death of a Ukrainian MP sympathetic to Moscow.

Candidates allied with Álvaro Uribe Vélez, an arch-conservative presidential hopeful who vows to deal with leftist rebels harshly, surged in Sunday's Congressional elections in another sign that Colombia was continuing its rightward shift after the bitter failure of peace talks, several leading political analysts said today.

Surging tension has plagued the region in western Sudan this year as fighting has resumed between the government and the rebels, and as fractious tribes battle among themselves, according to United Nations reports.