Sentence examples for the rebels around from inspiring English sources

A spokesman for the rebel Free Syrian Army described the abduction as "unconvincing and strange," given that the father did not share his son's views and was seen as having good relations with the rebels around him.

The rebels around us were firing Katyushas at the town's edges from multiple rocket launchers, and Qaddafi's men were firing back, "walking" the artillery shells close to the rebel positions.

So while Mr. Ricardo escorted the rebels around Europe, another Colombian government delegation met with European governments seeking nearly $1 billion in aid for the "carrot" part of Plan Colombia.

They also included tanks and other ground forces engaged with the rebels around the country, reflecting the broader aim of pushing Colonel Qadaffi's forces to withdraw from disputed cities. Communications centers and at least one Scud missile site were also struck.

In the rebel-held city of Misrata in western Libya and on the eastern front with the rebels around the oil town of Brega, Qaddafi forces continued to hammer rebels with rockets, artillery and mortars, as rebel leaders expressed exasperation at the limits of NATO's support.

The rebels had dug around 60 ditches to prevent armoured vehicles reaching parts of the city, but he said the army had filled around 30 of them.

This," he said, and paused, looking at the rebels gathered around him, "is necessity".

"The rebels came around 2am and went from door to door, looting food, goods, clothes and medicine, and abducting one person," says Jean-Pierre Bnongoti, head of the village.

The rebels numbered around 500 men by the time reinforcements had arrived from the nearby rebel-held towns of Jadu and Zintan.This time they fended off the colonel's troops.

Other reporters followed, sent by such news agencies as CBS, while a reporter from Paris Match stayed with the rebels for around 4 months, documenting their routine.

1961 'Transitional' Stage for Algeria France will start setting up an embryonic independent Algerian government without the nationalist rebels around Nov. 1 unless they accept further peace negotiations, informed sources said today [Sept. 6].