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It would be up to Iraqi government forces to thwart any plans by insurgents to resume their violence once U. S. forces begin to depart.

This may be enough to deter hostile governments, but insurgents and militias might be less worried.

And new-politics-toting insurgents do not always lose out to the establishment: just ask Bill Clinton.

"Yes, there are insurgents coming across the border, " he said at the U. S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.

nasser backed the arab insurgents , so the french were as eager as the british to see the back of him.

A team was set up to try to help persuade insurgents to lay down their weapons, so far to little effect.

Witnesses said the insurgents launched a rocket-propelled grenade against one of the cars.

That said, at least one of the host nation trucking companies has tried to do battle instead of paying off insurgents and warlords.

The family moved out of Adhamiya, a neighborhood that was becoming overrun with Sunni insurgents, and his mother remarried.

The British military claimed he was killed along with a number of other prominent insurgents in a helicopter strike on Monday.

Al Qaeda appears to be drawing closer to Somali insurgents in an effort to turn this country into a launching pad for global jihad.

However, when local residents are hurt by the NATO soldiers, then, he said, they are willing to help the insurgents.

Having kitted the soon-to-be martyr out in his jihadi outfit, the insurgents took photos and sent him on his way.

It was a jolt to most foreign observers and the Nepali elite when Maoist insurgents won the most seats in an election a year ago.

Mr Karzai seems to have stopped lambasting Pakistan for tolerating sanctuaries within its borders for Taliban insurgents.

But NATO is far from winning the war, and the ragged Afghan insurgents seem to have more staying power than the Wests mighty alliance.

Flash, insurgents like an army, with the momentum of an avalanche, a batch of pick up a batch of rushed towards the city.

Seven insurgents were shot dead in the fighting and an unknown number of other militants died in suicide blasts, he said.

Smoke billowed from a shopping center overrun by the insurgents just a few yards from the presidential palace.

Paying for a program to encourage Taliban insurgents to give up their fight is expected to be one of the main Afghan demands.

But if pro-Qaddafi insurgents manage to kill just a few foreign oil workers, international investors could shy rapidly away.

She said she was acting on behalf of insurgents based in the volatile Diyala province, north of Baghdad.

An additional objective is to blunt efforts by Taliban insurgents who are trying to regain control of the country.

But it has also been a place of bloody clashes between Taliban insurgents and the Pakistani military.

Unlike India, it has no insurgents, no ethnic and religious conflicts nor hostile neighbours.

The US-led NATO troops have a difficult time trying to identify insurgents from civilians as the Taliban operate amongst the population.

Italy is not the only country to have struck a deal with insurgents.

The Afghan Islamic Press news agency said the Taliban insurgents were responsible for the abduction.

In order to understand Vietnam as a model for insurgents in Iraq, we need to recall exactly what happened there, just as they do.

Since then, interim government officials have said the insurgents have spread throughout Iraq.

In other cases, Lynch suggested insurgents deliberately might be disseminating exaggerated reports or misinformation to media contacts.

Insurgents, by hitting ministries and other government institutions, are trying to prevent a functioning state from emerging.

When war broke out between Spain and the United States it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the insurgents.

US and Afghan officials say the insurgents enjoy at least some measure of protection from Pakistan -- although the army flatly denies this.

The calm had led many to believe that Taliban insurgents had decided to spare the election a wave of a violence.

Artillery strikes are frequently called in from other FOB's on the front lines and units on patrol when in contact with insurgents.

Even if they do not support the insurgents, as many appear not to, they may be too afraid to co-operate with the allies.

At least 30 were killed in Hub , a town near the southern port of Karachi , when insurgents targeted a vehicle carrying Chinese workers .

American and Iraqi officials had hoped that this represented an irreparable rift between homegrown insurgents and foreign jihadis.

The president and his advisers are also likely to discuss U. S. support for the Afghan government's negotiations with Taliban insurgents.

Appearing with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the general said Iranian assistance to Iraqi insurgents is "decidedly unhelpful. "

At least seven people were killed in Mogadishu late Wednesday as government forces traded shell and gunfire with al-Shabab insurgents.

Western soldiers prefer to fight in the dark, when their night-vision gear gives them the advantage over insurgents.

A military statement says Oqabi recently became the head of a "punishment committee" formed to carry out insurgents' "vigilante judgment" .

At least 70 people including insurgents and police academy instructors were killed Sunday across the country.

The proposal includes dialogue between Colonel Gadhafi and Libyan insurgents, supported by an Arab League fact-finding mission.

The day after Colonel Lewis arrived, insurgents fired a rocket at the base, the first such attack in nearly a year.

It has also diverted hundreds of millions to pay for weapons unrelated to its fight with the insurgents.

Ahmad Majidyar, of the American Enterprise Institute, said setting deadlines like the 2014 pullout date could be helping the insurgents.

The U. N envoy did not name any insurgent leaders, such as fugitive chief of the Taliban insurgents, Mullah Omar.

As allied forces take away the insurgents' safe havens and reduce their freedom of movement, they will fight back, he said.

critics now call it "mowing the grass, " since soldiers would repeatedly clear areas of insurgents only to see them reappear afterward.

US and Iraqi troops arrest dozens of suspected insurgents in Baghdad while American forces all over the Iraq celebrate the Fourth of July.

But a more troubling explanation would be that insurgents in the area were operating under the nose of Pakistani security forces.

Afghan officials say five insurgents believed to have been planning attacks in central Kabul have been killed in a gun battle.

The United States says al-Shabab has links to al-Qaida, and foreigners are believed to be fighting alongside the Somali insurgents.

Speaking by telephone from Nairobi, Geddo tells VOA the famine, as terrible as it is, appears to be working in favor of the insurgents.

Relations have been tense since NATO helicopters last weekend opened fire on targets across the border, killing several alleged insurgents.

It has been a conduit for insurgents in Iraq and it ran Lebanon as a virtual dominion for 15 years until it was ousted in 2005.

Arkenberg warns that such a network and API could also be exploited by insurgents, criminals or regimes.

There are no sureties when dealing with insurgents, but one rule is not to tell them exactly when you will be in a particular place.

Pushtuns, members of the country's largest ethnic group, to which most insurgents belong, are loth to sign up.

Islamist insurgents have attacked towns and villages across the country, including some close to the border with Kenya.

It was imperative that the president get a message to the leader of the insurgents.

NATO commanders have warned of an increase in violence as Afghan and coalition forces go on the offensive against insurgents.

Scattered protests continued in Libya Saturday, amid reports of further defections by former top officials to the side of the insurgents.

Pray for the insurgents to be soundly defeated, for their members to give up, and for their supply of equipment and financing to be cut off.

A few moments later, the soldiers dislodged the last remaining insurgents, who had taken refuge at the top of the house.

Islamist insurgents and pro-government forces in Somalia are fighting in an area near the presidential palace in the capital, Mogadishu.

Militia are Chechen based faction, who are more advanced than insurgents but are not like the conventional armies. More info TBA.

The cruel struggle between Iraqi insurgents and U. S. troops is just like a time consuming cat and mouse.

Insurgents easily set up roadblocks on highways and have pushed east through western Baghdad, nearly to the heart of the city.

Security must be improved, economic activity encouraged, government strengthened and insurgents offered inducements to defect.

it succumbed not to the insurgents, but to the regular armies of North Vietnam, after the war effort was starved of support by Congress.

Assisting insurgents is a classic form of unconventional warfare, and it does not necessarily mean putting Western personnel in Libya.

Meanwhile. NATO says coalition forces killed at least 10 insurgents during air strikes in northern Baghlan province Sunday.

They argue that it would allow the insurgents' representatives to talk freely to other parties in the conflict.

A US helicopter gunship involved in a notorious Baghdad incident had previously killed Iraqi insurgents after they tried to surrender.

Mobile infantry sweeps can never win the war if Afghan teenagers with no future prospects constantly replace killed insurgents.

In Iraq, the return of widespread bombings in Baghdad and elsewhere by insurgents led to the unravelling of the governing Shia coalition.

Close to 200 Nigerian troops are due to arrive in Mali to help fight Islamist insurgents in the country's north.

The New Republic, long plagued by war and insurgents, was eager to embrace a time of peace.

Taliban insurgents have launched frequent and deadly attacks on local as well foreign troops in Afghanistan this year.

Afghan police say up to 30 people were killed in Helmand province when Taliban insurgents attacked a road construction gang.

At least 35 civilians had been killed, along with dozens of insurgents.

The U. S. military says insurgents have killed two members of the international force in Afghanistan in bomb attacks.

The idea is desperate: removing such troops would be a boost to insurgents who threaten Pakistan and Afghanistan alike.

Two Taliban insurgents were killed in a gun battle after they took over a disused building in the east of the capital.

The mayor said the houses posed a security threat because they had been built with money from insurgents.

Earlier, President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed accompanied AU peacekeepers and government troops as they battled Islamist insurgents.

Earlier, President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed accompanied AU peacekeepers and government troops as they battled Islamist insurgents.

We will address the problem of Iran and Syria allowing terrorists and insurgents to use their territory to move in and out of Iraq.

Current disposal methods involve a version of the MAARS robot that insurgents will bomb to take out of action.

Some a former insurgents, which says others are young unemployed men who have had enough of the violence.

The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet glittering in the sun on a neighboring roof.

Insurgents had put them in bins around the city and set them off by mobile phones to terrify voters.

Insurgents in Iraq have attacked a government compound north of Baghdad, killing at least 16 policemen and freeing more than 30 prisoners.

Frightened by the invasion of Iraq, Syria nevertheless yanked the American lion's tail by letting insurgents slip into the fray.

The army claims the area is now mostly clear of insurgents, although soldiers continue to battle militants in nearby tribal areas.

Taliban insurgents and criminal gangs are blamed for a recent wave of killings and kidnappings targeting Afghans and foreigners.

Only a few years ago, the strategy for U. S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq focused on targeting insurgents.

Indian officials are closely monitoring Pakistan's crackdown on insurgents, especially the ongoing military operation against the Taliban.

The idea of a British army ever again confronting a national army of a hostile state, or groups of insurgents, in the open is anachronistic.

In much of the Delta it has now become difficult to distinguish between politicians, gangsters and insurgents.

Some experts say insurgents are waiting for the Americans to withdraw before moving back in.

Both sides have now confirmed that operations are underway around the airport and the provincial capital to find the insurgents.

The insurgents got out of their cars and, with their Kalashnikovs, shot them dead.

It is not known whether he was a member of the Taliban or being forced to act by the insurgents.

Coalition forces have beaten back insurgents and kept them out of many regions.

Brigades now exercise in mock Iraqi villages, with thousands of actors playing civilians, Iraqi forces and insurgents.

In May, insurgents launched a renewed offensive against the new unity government, made up of Islamists and secular politicians.

Sunni Muslim insurgents are being blamed for the blasts that killed at least 88 people.

Helicopters stretched the hillsides and there were daily newspaper reports of military triumph against the insurgents.

After a prolonged siege, the town was rendered up to the insurgents.

Insurgents targeted heavily defended government offices and ministries, almost completely destroying the foreign ministry.

Fighting the Taliban to withdraw some of its long-held positions, but very tenacious insurgents.

The agency played a role in supporting insurgents in Kashmir and militants in Afghanistan during the Russian occupation of the country.

This was the second helicopter to be shot down by insurgents in the past two weeks.

The guards saw this as a pretty good excuse to start squirting fire extinguishers at the insurgents because, hey, why the hell not?

Such attacks might also be seen as a mark of desperation by the insurgents.

NATO says the aircraft was being off-loaded through the rear ramp, when insurgents fired the grenade into the cargo bay.

NATO says insurgents in Afghanistan fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a military helicopter, killing one person and wounding eight others.

In addition, Afghan officials said the same day, 12 insurgents in the northwest when the bomb was "mistaken bombing" killed.

The Iraqi national army and police will get stronger, holding off the insurgents if not actually defeating them.

Hertling stresses that the battle against terrorists and insurgents is far from won.

Realizing that the Solos were considered Corellian insurgents, Ben tried to arrest them as terrorists.

Over the next 10 years, the battles between incumbents and software-powered insurgents will be epic.

Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi told The Associated Press by telephone that insurgents shot down the helicopter.

The anti-coalition insurgents have been joined by sectarian death squads whose aim is the ethnic cleansing of mixed Sunni and Shia areas.

They would clear insurgents out of parts of Baghdad.

But insurgents are now focusing on spectacular assaults in an effort to affect the political situation.

The underlying problem of insurgents using North Waziristan as a haven from which to launch attacks and assist jihadist terrorists remains.

Yet the roads that are foreign development's proudest boasts also serve to meet the insurgents' and drug-dealers' logistical needs.

It has become a favorite target of insurgents over the past several months, attacking it with car bombs, mortars and rockets.

Children played there, and the insurgents' graffiti were covered with slogans such as "Long live the National Guard" .

Mr Karzai has called for a peace jirga, or tribal assembly, to promote reconciliation with insurgents.

He has begun tentatively tackling the lethal ShiaH militias, now as much a scourge as the Sunni insurgents.

The U. S. military says once Helmand is free of insurgents, Afghan security forces will take over.

Sporadic gunfire from insurgents down the main road flies harmlessly overhead.

NATO says he is one of several senior al-Qaida and Taliban insurgents captured in Balkh province this year.

Pakistan's police forces are often undermanned and short on equipment, making them easy targets for insurgents. U.

He has begun tentatively tackling the lethal Shia militias, now as much a scourge as the Sunni insurgents.

In this grotesque carnival, the US military's contractors are forced to pay suspected insurgents to protect American supply routes.

The war, which put much of rural Nepal under the control of Maoist insurgents, has increased the supply of sex workers.

Civilian casualties rose even after Mullah Omar, the Taliban's spiritual leader, ordered insurgents to avoid killing bystanders.

Pakistan's government agreed a truce to end fighting with Islamist insurgents in the Swat valley in its North-West Frontier Province.

Special-forces operations, particularly night raids directed against mid-level insurgents, were greatly increased.

General Wardak partly blames foreign insurgents driven out of Iraq and other countries by coalition forces.

Far below him, insurgents were ambushing a coalition patrol and he could see them firing at the "friendlies. "

These insurgents terrorized rural Sierra Leone in an effort to control the nations diamond mines.

Surprised by Aberhart's refusal to be drawn into open conflict, the insurgents needed time to reassess their strategy.

Instead, insurgents sabotaged pipelines, assassinated engineers and managers, and suppressed Iraq's oil industry for years.

The ringleader of the US military guards who photographed their abuse of suspected Iraqi insurgents at the Abu Ghraib prison has been freed.

Kidnappings, murders, suicide bombings, and ongoing offensives pitting the US Army against insurgents were the norm.

The pilotless aircrafts armed with bombs and missiles are used against insurgents - but civilians are often also among those killed.

The insurgents detonated a string of roadside bombs as they fled before U. S. and Iraqi army reinforcements arrived.

Almost all of these awards were for "encounters" with suspected insurgents.

Insurgents lobbed mortars and fought gun battles with Iraqi forces, which are providing the bulk of the security at polling sites.

The two leaders also discussed ongoing efforts to make peace with willing insurgents and reintegrate them into Afghan society.

Japan's media landscape is dominated by conglomerates, which see themselves as peers of industry and government rather than insurgents.

The minister also promised "serious steps" in response to the increased activity of the insurgents in Dagestan.

Insurgents in this area tend to cruise about on motorbikes, stashing weapons if necessary before speeding back to hideouts in the desert.

The threat of more attacks looms as rivals seek to undermine Maliki, and insurgents try to upset the electoral process.

The insurgents have reportedly earlier tried to negotiate a share of the profits with the pirates who had refused.

Graffiti appeared on a wall in ugly black paint accusing Laith of selling information about insurgents to the military.

British forces last week led similar, but smaller, missions to fight and clear out insurgents in Helmand and neighboring Kandahar provinces.

He noted that the Russian AK-47 rifle, a weapon of choice among insurgents around the world, was invented during a pig year.

Politicians had no credibility with slap-together committees of insurgents.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks but some analysts are linking the attacks to North Caucasus insurgents.

Top Bush administration officials say a plan is in place to deal with insurgents in Iraq.

Nonetheless, attacks by Maoist, Hindu nationalist, Muslim and regional insurgents are persistent.

They say the goal is to attack Taleban safe havens in four southern provinces and disrupt the insurgents' leadership.

Taliban insurgents wearing US military uniforms have attacked two coalition bases in eastern Afghanistan, Nato forces say.

Amnesty International, a human-rights lobby group, accuses the Thai army of continuing to torture suspected Muslim insurgents in the south.

Canadian troops patrolled a farming village on Saturday from where Taliban insurgents launched recent rocket attacks on their camp.

At night the noise of a generator can carry a long way, become a calling card for insurgents.

U. S. military officials estimate close to 100 insurgents were killed, and say one U. S. soldier was killed and four were wounded.

In eastern Afghanistan, meanwhile, insurgents have captured an American Soldier, the US military reported today.

Some fear that fighting in the surrounding countryside will push insurgents into Kandahar city, traditionally a sanctuary.

General Ham said Iraq's government has proved in recent weeks its willingness and ability to take on insurgents, including Shi'ite militias.

The attack was aimed at a government complex that included a prison; several jailed insurgents escaped in the chaos.

Further east, the islands of the southern Philippines are dotted with the bases of Muslim insurgents.

Attacks by insurgents are no longer treated in Moscow or in the outside world as terrorist attacks on Russia.

And on a single afternoon in early May, three separate patrols were ambushed by insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades.

The Chechen insurgents appear only as shadowy, vicious figures, slitting their captives' throats or trading them as slaves.

A switch to an asymmetric model, as has proven effective for Iraq's insurgents, has looked likely for some time.

Today Taliban insurgents again hold sway over much of the Kandahar countryside.

But the Iraqis proved unable or unwilling to hold the line against the insurgents.

The insurgents, armed with rocket-propelled grenades and suicide vests, attacked the US Embassy and NATO headquarters.

The eighth route to ZaoZhuang, outside the main to attack the ZaoZhuang insurgents to stop the surrounded.

With Iraqis in the lead, our forces will help secure the city by chasing down terrorists, insurgents, and roaming death squads.

The insurgents' support base includes Muslim ethnic Malays who resent domination by Thailand's Buddhist majority.

Authorities say they have no confirmation that the killing was carried out by the insurgents.

US military helicopter has gone down northwest of Baghdad with Sunni insurgents tied to Al-Qaeda claiming responsibility.

Suspected Sunni insurgents often target members of the civilian militias that allied with Iraqi and U. S. forces.

Insurgents have previously targeted some of the Indians.

When he was here putting down an insurgency, he was framed and killed by insurgents.

The remaining third -- in particular Helmand and Kandahar provinces -- is rife with both poppies and insurgents.

In the south, however, tribal structures are weaker, warlords tend to dominate and insurgents exploit tribal rivalries.

It also had a park full of little palaces for hobbits, and the waiters all looked like insurgents.

Kashmiris have dropped their guns and shooed away Islamic insurgents who a decade or so ago skulked in the postcard-perfect mountains.

Instead, the battle for power is fought in the minds of the local population, insurgents and western publics.

Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for carrying the attack, saying Mr. Karzai was their target.

Sunni insurgents probably linked to al-Qaeda have recently perpetrated a string of spectacular atrocities.

Bomb blasts kill six marines in Western Iraq where US forces kill dozens of militants and offensives to uproot Al-Qaida insurgents.

The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely.

The insurgents, knowing that the Americans are poised to pull out, are aiming to make Iraq as unstable as ever.

Intisar's husband, Nathir Bashir Ali, suspects his house was bombed by insurgents as retribution for sending Rakan to the United States.

The fighting ended early Wednesday with all the insurgents killed.

This week, insurgents attacked the peacekeepers' positions on three consecutive days.

The spokesman added that the NATO helicopters did fire at insurgents who had taken positions on the hotel's roof.

Taliban insurgents have claimed responsibility for the deadly attack.

The police chief says the village where the attack occurred was once considered a hub of Taliban insurgents.

Worse, the insurgents appear to be operating closer to Kabul.

For night-time combat, modern armies have the upper hand over insurgents thanks to night-vision goggles.

The analyst said another "complex attack" involving several insurgents was likely for election day.

America sees Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal areas as a safe haven for insurgents.

Two insurgents were captured, it said, along with automatic rifles and "communications equipment" .

Its government is stable, if fractious. Its security forces can defend the country against terrorists and insurgents.

Threats to sovereignty now come not from domestic insurgents but from international investors.

at least 27 people were confirmed dead, including 11 insurgents.

Most insurgents appear to be local to the battlefield.

The Afghan intelligence official also said that the insurgents had chosen a late hour in the night when rear guards were relaxed.

That could complicate efforts to integrate former insurgents into the economy.

Insurgents also set off bombs at a busy intersection, security checkpoints.

The anger, though, is not confined to the insurgents of the right.

Others are accused of collaborating with insurgents, arms smugglers and highway bandits.

The aim is to eliminate insurgents in Wild West-style -- without judges, evidence or trial.

Some U. S. and Afghan officials cast doubt, however, on the idea that insurgents had a role.

International military officials have said they believed they were targeting a group of 120 insurgents.

No fewer than 31, 780 of these deaths are attributed to improvised roadside bombs (IEDs) planted by insurgents.

Mortar systems provide much needed relief for convoys and patrols that come under attack from insurgents.

Insurgents had mounted anti-aircraft guns in the back of the stolen trucks, and fired on the Apaches.

At least 7 people were killed and 19 wounded by the insurgents.

Taliban insurgents have said they were behind the attack .

But they will offer more targets for insurgents to shoot at, and reinforce many Iraqis' resentment of the occupation.

Insurgents also attacked the motorcade of Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, who escaped unhurt.

US military said it was engaged in fire fight with insurgents at the time.

During the 1980s, it supplied Chinese and Egyptian rip-off Kalashnikovs to anti-Soviet insurgents in Afghanistan.

In the summer of 2009, U. S. forces discovered "days and days and hours and hours" of the drone footage on the laptops of Iraqi insurgents.

At this time it is doubtful insurgents have the technical ability [to] eavesdrop on conversations and numbers dialled from Roshan GSM.

Thus New Delhi's controversial aid to Burma's junta, which returns the favor by attacking anti-Indian insurgents.

Insurgents have not dared destroy schools that are owned by the community.

Insurgents were planting roadside bombs and driving car bombs into Iraqi and coalition forces.

The insurgents and criminals who were his sworn enemies viewed Hamidi's peacemaking as the biggest threat to their cynical ambitions.

Many saw no choice but to help the Sunni insurgents.

The sanctuary enjoyed by insurgents in Pakistan gives them the ability to fight more or less indefinitely.

Another claims that insurgents were plotting to poison beer supplies for American forces.

The terrorists and insurgents are violently opposed to democracy, and will continue to attack it.

In fact, stability without some accommodation with militant insurgents is impossible.