Sentences with phrase «islamist rebels»

NATO's decision to launch a ferocious bombing campaign to help Islamist rebels overthrow Colonel Gaddafi in 2011 hangs over Britain today like a toxic cloud, writes JOHN R. BRADLEY.

The West had supported Islamist rebels in Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Egypt and destroyed Iraqi state.

More than five months after Islamist rebels seized control of the Christian - majority CAR, Christians remain vulnerable to atrocities and the threat of imposition of Islamic law.

Since Islamist rebels seized power in March, a new fault line has emerged: religion.

Paolo Dall» Oglio had gone to negotiate a hostage release and a truce between Islamist rebels and local Kurds at ISIS headquarters in Raqqa when he disappeared.

But reports of chemical attacks have surfaced regularly since then, and Islamist rebels fighting in the town of Douma — the site of the suspected chemical attack earlier this month that sparked the US and allies» strike on Friday — say Assad is using the terrifying weapons to win on the battlefield.

Teams from the UN and NGOs on the ground are currently working with Nigerian officials to determine how best to offer treatment for the physical and psychological needs that the girls will have after being raped by members of the Islamist rebel group, should they be freed.

Israel borders an IS - controlled area directly but it's a small enclave so no oil could through there except through non-IS Islamist rebel territory before.

Not exact matches

Islamist terrorist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda are also involved in the war, but even as terrorist groups» grip on certain areas of the country fades, the war between the rebels and Assad doesn't seem likely to stop anytime soon.

Niek de Goeij is speaking as separatist and Islamist terrorists continue to cause violence in the north African country, despite a peace agreement in June between the Mali government and rebel groups who wanted to form a separate state.

While accounts of rebel soldiers going door to door in the Christian quarter of Homs in March 2012 and driving them out of the city were initially met with scepticism, by the end of 2013 no one could doubt the intentional targeting of Christians, after three Christian men were shot dead for refusing to convert to Islam and a group of nuns were kidnapped after Maaloula fell to Islamist groups within the opposition.

In September 2014 Bassel Idriss, the commander of an FSA - aligned rebel brigade, was one of several group leaders who admitted to working alongside Islamist groups in Syria, including Isis.

Rebel groups and Islamist mercenaries from Chad and Sudan joined forces in December to form a militant coalition called Seleka, which took the capital, Bangui, on March 24 and sent then - President Francois Bozize into exile in Cameroon.

The country's security has gradually worsened since 2013, when French forces repelled allied Islamist and Tuareg rebel fighters from parts of the north.