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Colombian rebels kill 8 police in mortar attack (AP)

September 10th, 2010

AP - Leftist rebels firing homemade mortars killed at least eight police officers and wounded four in a pre-dawn attack Friday on a police barracks near the country’s border with…

Rebels kill 3 Indian peacekeepers in Congo (AP)

August 18th, 2010

AP - Dozens of rebels attacked a U.N. peacekeeping base under darkness in eastern Congo early Wednesday, killing three Indian soldiers and wounding seven other peacekeepers, an Indian army official…

American apologizes for aiding rebels in Peru (AP)

August 16th, 2010

U.S. activist Lori Berenson attends her hearing at court in Lima, Peru, Monday Aug. 16, 2010. Berenson, from New York, addressed a criminal appeals court as prosecutors called for her parole to be revoked and for her to be sent back to prison to finish her 20-year sentence for aiding the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)AP - American Lori Berenson apologized Monday for aiding leftist rebels and asked a Peruvian court to let her remain free on parole after serving 15 years of her 20-year…

Chavez: Colombian rebels should release hostages (AP)

August 8th, 2010

AP - President Hugo Chavez is urging Colombia’s rebels to release their hostages as a means of kick-starting negotiations with the country’s new president to end the South American nation’s…

As hostage, officer saw Colombia rebels decline (AP)

July 14th, 2010

Former rebel hostage, Police Gen. Luis Mendieta, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in his home in Bogota, Tuesday July 13, 2010.  Mendieta was captured in 1998 by the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and rescued during an army operation in June 2010 after being held hostage for 12 years. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)AP - After he was captured by leftist rebels, Luis Mendieta’s status in Colombia’s police force suddenly became his curse. The rebels’ military chief told the lieutenant colonel — his…

Suspected Kurdish rebels kill 4 in bombing (AP)

June 22nd, 2010

Iraqi policemen stand at the site of a roadside bombing in the Dora area of southern Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 22, 2010. Iraqi officials say a roadside bomb apparently aimed at a senior transportation official has missed its target and killed bystanders instead. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a remote-controlled bomb in Istanbul Tuesday, killing four people and wounding 12 on a bus carrying military personnel and their families, the governor said.


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Report: suspected Kurd rebels kill 3 in bombing (AP)

June 22nd, 2010

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (C) speaks with Turkish soldiers in a trench during his visit to the Turkish city of Hakkari at the border with Iraq June 20, 2010. REUTERS/Kayhan Ozer/AnatolianAP - A television report says suspected Kurdish rebels have killed at least three people in a bomb attack on a bus carrying military personnel in Istanbul.


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Turkey: May air raid killed 100 Kurdish rebels (AP)

June 18th, 2010

A Turkish soldier patrols on a road near the Turkey-Iraq border in the mainly Kurdish southeastern province of Sirnak, in 2008. Turkish soldiers on Wednesday crossed into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels for the first time in two years and bombed targets across the border, killing four militants, the army said.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AP - Turkey’s military said Friday it killed as many as 120 Kurdish rebels in an air raid on rebel hideouts in northern Iraq last month and a daylong incursion…

Turkey: Air raid killed 100 Kurdish rebels May 20 (AP)

June 18th, 2010

A Turkish soldier patrols on a road near the Turkey-Iraq border in the mainly Kurdish southeastern province of Sirnak, in 2008. Turkish soldiers on Wednesday crossed into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels for the first time in two years and bombed targets across the border, killing four militants, the army said.(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AP - More than 100 Kurdish rebels were killed in an air raid over northern Iraq last month, Turkey’s military said Friday.


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NY woman who aided Peru rebels free after 15 years (AP)

May 27th, 2010

US Activist Lori Berenson, smiles after leaving prison on parole next to her husband and attorney Anibal Apari, in Lima, Thursday, May 27, 2010. A judge granted parole to Berenson, the 40-year-old New York activist who has spent 15 years in Peruvian prisons on a conviction of aiding leftist rebels.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)AP - New Yorker Lori Berenson walked out of a Peruvian prison with a smile on her face Thursday, then pushed through a mob of reporters before settling into a…