Last rebel eastern base 'taken'
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The Sri Lankan military say they have captured  the last Tamil Tiger rebel stronghold in the east of the country.
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US military officials yesterday said they had regained control over the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, recording a big
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With military support from France, the army of the Central African Republic has taken back control of Ouadda Djalle, the last town that fell into rebel hands, French military and rebel sources said.
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U.N. peacekeepers and Haitian police seized the last remaining gang stronghold in Haiti's largest slum on Wednesday, the latest in a series of military crackdowns aimed at stabilizing the impoverished and divided Caribbean nation.
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The army in the Central African Republic has recaptured the last town in rebel hands, Ouadda Djalle, with French military help, a French military source has said.
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American forces overran the last center of rebel resistance in Falluja on Sunday after a weeklong invasion that smashed what they called the principal base for the Iraqi insurgency.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces expect to be  positioned throughout the last remaining guerrilla stronghold  in Falluja by Tuesday, a Marine officer said on Saturday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 14 -- A Turkish engineer and two Afghans were apparently kidnapped Tuesday in an area of eastern Afghanistan where bandits and insurgents from the Taliban and other Islamic extremist groups operate, officials said.
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A Darfur rebel group said it seized control of a Sudanese army base in neighboring Kordofan province on Wednesday.
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The Indian army is carrying out a major offensive against rebel bases in the north-east, says a spokesman.
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NATO assumed control of international forces across Afghanistan, taking charge of the east of the country from the US-led coalition that toppled the Taliban regime five years ago.
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LIMA, Peru  - Rebels who laid siege to a police  station and parts of a southern Peruvian town four days ago  demanding the president's resignation decided to surrender  their weapons Tuesday, a government statement said.
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THOPPIGALA, Sri Lanka -- Army commandos seized a massive rocky plateau nicknamed "Tora Bora" and searched grassy fields and brush yesterday looking for as many as 200 Tamil Tiger rebels -- the last organized resistance, the military said, to government forces in eastern Sri Lanka.
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ELEANOR HALL: To Iraq now and US-led forces are poised on the outskirts of the rebel stronghold city of Fallujah, awaiting the go ahead to launch a major assault on the city, as reports emerge that American and Iraqi government forces have already seized
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"The dissidents are not a worthy target for a military force"  The final British troops withdrew Monday from the Northern Ireland borderland long known as 'bandit country,' ending a 37-year mission to keep watch over the Irish Republican Army's most dangerous power base.Soldiers from the second battalion of the Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment left Bessbrook Mill in what their commander, Col. Wayne Harber, called a final act in 'the longest military campaign in the army's history.''We are pleased to be going and that the peace process is progressing. Soldiers know the importance of peace more than anybody else,' Harber said. Read more
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The Sri Lankan government plans victory celebrations after troops seized the last Tamil Tiger base in the east.
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American forces overran the last center of rebel resistance in Falluja after a weeklong invasion that smashed what they called the principal base for the Iraqi insurgency.