Chad rebels seize key eastern town
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N'DJAMENA  - Chadian rebels attacked the eastern regional capital of Abeche on Saturday in their latest strike against President Idriss Deby's rule, wresting control from government forces who withdrew and surrounded the town.
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NAIROBI, June 26 -- Widespread banditry, kidnapping and political violence in the volatile and virtually lawless northeastern corner of the Central African Republic are forcing thousands of villagers to flee to Chad, where the security situation is possibly more desperate, according to an Amnesty...
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Chadian rebels renewed their assault on the capital of this oil-rich central African country Monday, and tens of thousands of people fled as gunfire crackled and artillery shells exploded across the city.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's army fought rebel forces northeast of the capital N'Djamena on Friday to try to halt a rapid rebel advance on the city.
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Chad's president declared himself in control of the country Wednesday, even while acknowledging that three-fourths of his government had disappeared since rebels attacked the capital.
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Tens of thousands of Chadians fled when rebels stormed the capital earlier this month. They're returning cautiously.
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Shooting has reportedly been heard in the eastern Chadian city of Abeche, amid warnings of a new rebel offensive.
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N'DJAMENA  - Rebels fighting to overthrow Chad's President Idriss Deby attacked the eastern town of Adre on the border with Darfur on Thursday, in a raid the Chadian government said had been launched from neighboring Sudan.
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Marauding fighters have killed and mutilated 20 civilians in eastern Chad, the central African country's government said, blaming the atrocities on militias backed by neighbouring Sudan.
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MAHMUDIYA, Iraq : US troops battled rebels in the northern town of Tall Afar for a second day as Iraqi and US forces arrested 500 suspected militants in the heartland of the Sunni Muslim insurgency.
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Chadian rebels renewed their assault on the capital of this oil-rich central African country Monday, and tens of thousands of people fled as gunfire crackled and artillery shells exploded across the city
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NAIROBI, Feb. 3 -- Heavily armed rebels trying to overthrow the government of Chad battled near the presidential palace in the capital Sunday and later claimed to control a town on the eastern border with Sudan, raising concerns about the 240,000 refugees from Sudan's ravaged Darfur region who live...
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Chad's army says it has retaken the eastern town of Abeche, a day after it reportedly fell into rebel hands.
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French-backed government forces regained control of the last rebel-held town in Central African Republic on Sunday, dealing a fatal blow to a weeks-old rebellion in the country's north, a presidential spokesman said.
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N'DJAMENA  - Troops loyal to Chad's president drove back rebels besieging his palace on Sunday, the government said, adding it had repulsed an assault by Sudanese forces in the east that it called "a declaration of war".
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Congolese soldiers loyal to a renegade general took the eastern town of Sake on Sunday after a brief engagement with U.N. troops and clashes with the army that killed at least five and wounded dozens, U.N. officials said.
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A Chadian military reconnaissance plane was shot down in eastern Chad on Tuesday, a government spokesman said, and a rebel group claimed responsibility. A government spokesman blamed neighboring Sudan for backing the rebels and said it was "a state of war."