Forces hunt East Timor rebel chief
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International security forces and U.N.  police in East Timor have launched a search for rebel leader  Major Alfredo Reinado who escaped from jail with more than 50  prisoners, officials said on Thursday.
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An East Timor rebel leader asked to negotiate with authorities Thursday as an Australian-led international force surrounded his hideout, but rejected calls to hand himself in, a witness with him said.
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East Timorese rebel Alfredo Reinado escaped when Australian troops stormed his stronghold, killing four of his armed men, a defence official said Sunday.
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An Australian-led international  peacekeeping force launched a raid to capture East Timor rebel  Alfredo Reinado on Sunday, killing four people, an Australian  commander said.
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The rebel East Timor military leader who escaped from jail earlier this week appeared on television and criticized the country's government.
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East Timor's military and international forces have launched an operation against rebels hiding in hills near the capital following an assassination attempt on the country's president.
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Troops and police enforced a state of emergency across East Timor on Tuesday as President Jose Ramos-Horta recuperated from an assassination bid that doctors said he was lucky to survive.
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East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta was shot and seriously wounded Monday by rebel soldiers in an assassination attempt that plunged the fledgling nation into a fresh crisis.
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Officials called on a fugitive East Timorese rebel leader to surrender Thursday as international troops surrounded a mountain town where he and scores of armed followers were holed up.
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One of the rebels involved in the attacks on East Timor's two top leaders denies trying to assassinate them.
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An East Timor independence hero was challenging a former prime minister for leadership in this fledgling democracy as important parliamentary elections got under way Saturday.
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Australian troops backed by tanks, helicopters and airplanes have stormed the East Timor town where a rebel leader is holed up, entering his stronghold, a witness said on Sunday.
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A fugitive rebel leader in East Timor has threatened to shoot Australian soldiers who try to capture him, saying he will never give himself up.
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Fierce gunbattles raged in East Timor&#039;s capital Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding more than a dozen, as international troops arrived in the tiny nation to help it quell a rebellion by disgruntled ex-soldiers.
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East Timor's ex-prime minister Mari Alkatiri has been questioned by the prosecutor-general's office over allegations he authorised the arming of a hit squad tasked with eliminating his rivals.
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East Timor Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta began his new job collecting weapons from civilians as the nation tries to rebuild from a spate of violence.
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Rebel soldiers attacked the home of East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta early on Monday and he has been wounded in the stomach by gunfire, a military spokesman said on Monday.