Nigeria offensive against rebels
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PORT HARCOURT (Nigeria) - Nigeria&#39;s army yesterday launched an offensive against a separatist rebel group which threatened oil installations and workers in the southern Delta region, an army spokesman said.
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US-led troops battling for control of Fallujah yesterday took their fight against rebels to the south of the Iraqi city as scores of insurgents opened a new front in Mosul in the north.
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Nigerian rebel leader Mujahid Dokubo-Asari said he arrived in the capital Abuja on Wednesday for talks with President Olusegun Obasanjo after his group threatened a new offensive against troops in the oil-producing Niger delta and threatened to target oil workers.
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Police in the west African state of Benin have arrested two rebel leaders from the Central African Republic (CAR), whose forces are waging a violent offensive in their home country, a court official in the CAR capital Bangui has said.
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Oil prices raced to new highs above $50  on Tuesday as rebel threats against Nigerian oil facilities  threatened to inflict further strain on global supplies.
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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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MOSUL, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched an  offensive in Mosul on Tuesday to retake control of rebel-held  areas after a week of anarchy that has seen insurgents  attacking across Iraq's third largest city.
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Rebels refuse to return to AU-sponsored talks with Sudanese government until latter stops attacks in Darfur. ABUJA - Rebel leaders accused the Sudanese government of pursuing an offensive in the western region
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Rebel fighters in Nigeria&#39;s oil-producing Niger delta will attack oil wells and pipelines if the army does not halt assaults on their forces, a rebel commander says.
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By Andrew MItchell LONDON  - Oil prices raced to new record highs above $50 on Tuesday as rebel threats against Nigerian oil facilities threatened to inflict further strain on global supplies.
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Armed men have attacked an oil installation belonging to the Royal Dutch Shell company in Nigeria's volatile southern Niger Delta region, industry sources said.
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US FORCES launched a large ground and air offensive against insurgents in Mosul yesterday in an effort to retake areas lost to the rebels in heavy fighting last week.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Militants said they killed 17 soldiers in two separate gun battles in Nigeria's oil heartland on Wednesday and threatened imminent attacks on strategic oil facilities.
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The UN says Rwanda is threatening to attack Hutu rebels based in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. Meanwhile, Kigali says the rebels are advancing toward Rwanda&#39;s border.
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PORT HARCOURT -- Militants said they killed 17 soldiers in two separate gun battles in Nigeria's oil heartland yesterday and threatened imminent attacks on strategic oil facilities. The killings extend to four days a surge in violence between troops and rebels in the world's eighth largest oil exporter and follow the kidnapping of seven foreign workers from a US company ...
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Attack helicopters battled speedboats full of armed fighters for control of key oil installations. Seven foreigners were abducted from a residential compound, and militants claimed dozens of soldiers were killed. Even by the standards of Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta region, it has been a bloody week.
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With a US-led offensive on Falluja apparently imminent, rebels hit back with attacks in Samarra, Baghdad and Ramadi, another rebel-held city.