Chad rebels attack key 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of Abeche on Saturday in their latest strike against President Idriss Deby's rule, but government forces said they had withdrawn and surrounded the town.
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Chadian rebels from the Union of Forces for Development and Democracy (UFDD) launched a new offensive in the far east of the country, bordering Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, French and Chadian officials said.
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Insurgents on Wednesday ambushed a convoy of African Union peacekeepers sent to help stabilize Somalia's violent capital, setting off a gunfight that wounded three civilians, witnesses said.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad's President Idriss Deby appointed a close ally as defence minister on Friday as soldiers and police imposed a security crackdown across the country following a rebel attack on the capital two weeks ago.
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Sudanese government aircraft, army and militia attacked two towns in West Darfur state on Friday, causing heavy civilian casualties, Darfur rebels and witnesses said.
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Rebels said Monday they have captured another town near Central African Republic's restive Chad-Sudan borderlands and that their forces are aiming for the country's southern capital. Government officials only confirmed there was fighting.
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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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A Chadian rebel group claims to have shot down a military plane which was bombing their positions.
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N'DJAMENA  - Chad government forces fought on Saturday with rebels around the eastern town of Abeche after the insurgents launched a fresh attack in their campaign against President Idriss Deby, the defense minister said.
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Fighting broke out early Saturday between the national army and rebels in a volatile region of eastern Chad, and rebels claimed they had seized the major city in the area.
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A Chadian rebel group has said it has shot down a small government army plane in the east of the central African country, in the latest sign of growing conflict.
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Chad's government told the French military it still was fighting rebels using "air power" outside of N'Djamena, the capital, according to French military spokesman Cmdr. Christophe Prazuck
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Chadian troops and Darfur rebels launch an attack in Sudan's western region, diplomatic sources say.
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Chadian rebels penetrated the capital of the central African nation on Saturday and were clashing with government forces there, a French military spokesman said.
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N'DJAMENA  - Nearly 40 people were killed in clashes between Chad's security forces and Arab raiders on horseback who attacked two eastern villages, burning homes and mutilating their victims, the government said on Tuesday.
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Thousands of refugees stream from Chad into Cameroon following a rebel assault on the Chadian capital.
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Chad's army fought to drive off  rebels who pushed to within 100 km (60 miles) of the capital  N'Djamena on Friday and the clashes delayed the deployment of  European peacekeepers to the African country.