Briefs: Rebels rule out peace with present leadership
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Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tigers on Thursday doused hopes of putting a speedy end to two decades of civil war, saying a final peace deal was impossible under the current government.
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Rebels from Sudan's Darfur region  Thursday rejected calls to disarm or confine their fighters to  their bases before a political solution to the conflict there  has been decided and implemented.
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BOGOTA -- Colombia's biggest leftist rebel group proposed a conditional cease-fire with the government yesterday, its biggest step toward peace since Alvaro Uribe became president in 2002.
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Afghan rebel leader and al Qaeda ally Gulbuddin Hekmatyar on Thursday denied he had declared a ceasefire in his battle against Afghanistan's government, a spokesman said.
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CORCHA CAMP, Sudan  - A Sudanese rebel commander in a camp in Darfur tells his troops he is hoping for peace. But just a few hours march away, young men say they are convinced Sudan wants to drive them off the land.
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A powerful rebel group in India's troubled northeast has offered to hold conditional peace talks with authorities to end more than a quarter-century of separatist conflict, a mediator said on Tuesday.
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A cease-fire between the government and a rebel group that has terrorized this east African nation for nearly 20 years is on track despite complaints from the rebels' leader, a government official said Friday.
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Rebel commanders in the Darfur region of western Sudan urged the founder of their movement on Friday to take part in negotiations on ending four and a half years of conflict in Darfur.
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The peace talks set to begin today will fail and ultimately prolong the conflict, says leading rebel.
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The two rebel groups fighting in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region have been accused by Chad of stalling the peace process. Disagreements within the two groups had made it very difficult for the government
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Announcement of ceasefire with rebel groups to come at start of weekend peace talks, ambassador says.
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The United Nations and the African Union have just seven weeks to persuade major rebel factions to attend new Darfur peace talks in Libya &#151; a tough job because a key rebel leader immediately rejected any negotiations until there is a cease-fire.
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ABUJA : Sudanese government envoys sat down with leaders of the rebellion in the western Darfur region as African Union peace talks took off here with a likelihood of bitter rows over security arrangements.
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Corrects ninth paragraph to show one rebel group, not two,   signed a peace deal with the government in May.
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Rebels in Chechnya have not attacked Russian forces in the three days since the rebels' fugitive leader ordered a cease-fire, a source in the mountainous region's pro-Moscow police said on Sunday.
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JUBA, Sudan  - Hundreds of Ugandan rebels   including their deputy commander have gathered at two locations   as part of a truce signed with the government three weeks ago,   the chief mediator of peace talks said on Monday.
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Peace talks between the Sudanese government and rebel groups have collapsed and could be suspended for weeks. On Wednesday Muhammad Ahmad Tugod, the chief negotiator for Sudanese group, the Justice and Equality