Beirut: At least 21 people were killed on Tuesday in an attack in northern Syria, activists said, and members of a team of UN monitors caught in the incident said they were in rebel hands "for their own protection." When Reuters asked one of the four monitors by phone if they were being held prisoner, he said: "We are safe with the (rebel) Free Army." A spokesman for the rebel...
02:03 AM, May 16, 2012
Villavicencio: Colombia's main rebel group freed what it says were its last 10 military and police captives, a goodwill gesture that President Juan Manuel Santos praised but called insufficient to merit a peace dialogue. The men had spent between 12 and 14 years in jungle prisons, captured with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia was at the height of its military strength. But Latin America's oldest and most potent...
01:59 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Panaji: As the March 3 assembly polls inch closer, rebellion has surfaced in Goa's political ranks, with those who have been denied party tickets threatening to raise the banner of revolt. Congress, the party which stands to lose most by the rebellion factor, is battling rebels in more than 10 out of the 33 constituencies it is contesting. Goa assembly has 40 seats. Vijay Sardesai, who was one of the...
01:08 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Here are reviews of Shamim Padamsee's books 'Rebels in Rajasthan' and 'Poachers in Paradise' by an eight-year-old, Arunima Kaul, the books are published by Penguin India. Book: Rebels in Rajasthan; Author: Shamim Padamsee This story is about a flying magic jharokha, invented by Uncle Jadoo who disappeared. He had been kidnapped by an evil djinn. The jharokha can take you anywhere you want. Vayu and Deeya have to find seven...
04:56 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Beirut: Syrian troops closed public squares in Hama on Thursday after residents poured red paint symbolising blood on the ground to mark the 30th anniversary of the massacre President Bashar al-Assad's father carried out to crush an uprising. Assad has been locked in struggle with a revolt against his own rule for the past 11 months, with at least 5,000 deaths by a United Nations count, stirring Arab and Western...
04:35 AM, Feb 03, 2012
Beijing: Sudanese rebels attacked a camp belonging to a Chinese company in the troubled south Kordofan state of Sudan, taking hostage 29 Chinese workers amidst a battle with the Army. Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed that a camp belonging to a Chinese firm was attacked by rebels and several Chinese nationals "have gone missing" after that. The camp was attacked by local militants on Saturday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Weimin said...
06:38 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Beirut: Syria is ready to let Arab monitors extend their mission beyond this week, an Arab source said on Tuesday, but a rebel army chief said they should go as they had failed to curb a crackdown on protesters seeking President Bashar al-Assad's overthrow. Damascus opposes broadening the scope of the Arab League observer mission, the source at the League said, but would accept a one-month extension of its mandate...
03:27 AM, Jan 18, 2012
Ankara: Turkish warplanes mistakenly killed 35 smugglers and other villagers in an operation targeting Kurdish rebels in Iraq, a senior official said Thursday, one of the largest one-day civilian death tolls during Turkey's 27-year drive against the guerrillas. The killings spurred angry demonstrations in Istanbul and several cities in the mostly Kurdish southeast, and were the latest incident of violence to undermine the Turkish government's efforts to appease the aggrieved...
02:50 AM, Dec 30, 2011
Colombo: A Sri Lankan Appeal Court on Friday rejected a former Army chief Sarath Fonseka's plea against his 30-month jail term. The Appeal Court in a unanimous decision upheld the verdict of the court martial which sentenced Fonseka in September of 2010. The military court martial found Fonseka guilty of following wrong procedure in procurements when he headed the Army between 2005 and 2009. Fonseka was also sentenced to a...
06:44 PM, Dec 16, 2011
HYDERABAD: A day after 16 of its MLAs defied the whip and voted to topple the Kiran Kumar Reddy government, the Congress appeared to be in no great hurry to have them disqualified. Still fuzzy after surviving the trust vote in the Assembly in the early hours of Tuesday, the party seemed to be weighing the consequences of taking any action that would lead to a whole clutch of byelections...
08:14 AM, Dec 07, 2011
Tripoli: The man whose arrest in February sparked Libya's revolution was sworn in as a minister in the new interim government on Sunday but said he had been hesitant about taking on the new job. Fethi Tarbel, Libya's new sport and youth minister, wiped away tears after he took he swore a pledge of allegiance to Libya with one hand placed on the Koran, the Muslim holy book. Standing in...
01:40 AM, Dec 05, 2011
Tripoli: Dozens of Libyan religious leaders on Monday urged authorities to disarm former rebels and form a national army, backing the transitional government's struggle to exert control over the militias that overthrew dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The fighters are widely admired for their role in bringing down the Gaddafi regime, but the clerics' statement reflected concern over the militias' refusal to submit to the central authority. Dozens of militias have held...
03:10 AM, Nov 29, 2011
Colombo: Jailed former Sri Lankan army chief Sarath Fonseka was on Friday sentenced to spend three more years in prison after a court convicted him for alleging that the powerful brother of the country's President had ordered the execution of surrendering Tamil rebels. Fonseka, a member of Parliament, was found guilty by a split 2-1 decision by the High Court in the 'white flag' case, for violating emergency regulations by...
03:09 PM, Nov 18, 2011
Tripoli: Libya won't turn into an extremist Islamic country, its interim leader assured the European Union's top diplomat on Saturday, adding that the formation of a new government of experts is to be completed in the coming week. Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, chairman of the National Transitional Council, caused a stir in the West last month when he said Islamic Shariah law would be the main source of legislation in the new...
01:39 AM, Nov 13, 2011
Ankara: A group of Kurdish militants on Friday hijacked a ferry with 19 passengers near Istanbul, the country's transport minister said. The minister, Binali Yildirim, said "four or five" hijackers claiming to be members of the armed wing of the Kurdish rebel group Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, commandeered the ship after it set sail from the northwestern port city of Izmit. The rebels have been fighting for autonomy in...
02:13 AM, Nov 12, 2011
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