(a) Government forces, including the armed forces, the police forces, security forces and popular defence forces.

The few remnants of the rebel forces are on the run.

It is urgent that we cease wavering between the rebel forces and the legal authority.

Rebel factions, opposition fighters and Government forces continue to target innocent civilians with alarming frequency.

(vii) The indiscriminate attacks against civilian populations, including against hospitals in the zones held by rebel forces and the zones held by foreign forces

(b) The Popular Defence Forces (PDF) are paramilitary forces that are mobilized when there is a threat to the national security.

In Sierra Leone, for example, women were forced to become sexual slaves of the rebel forces, (so called bush wives ).

In the short term, it will not make them popular with the security forces and the establishment.

AU continues to monitor the situation and to coordinate with the Government of the Sudan, rebel forces and other armed groups.

The Commission has also found credible evidence that rebel forces are responsible for serious violations, which may amount to war crimes.

Not only were the rebel movements more active militarily against Government forces, but both SLA and JEM attacked villages and other civilian targets.

During September there were numerous violent incidents initiated either by the Sudanese Armed Forces, the Popular Defence Forces and tribal militias, or SLM A in both Northern and Southern Darfur.

(d) Rebel armed groups. They include forces of the Sudan Liberation Movement, the Justice and Equality Movement and the Movement for Reform and Development.

Sixth, the Government should make a new start by disarming the Popular Defence Forces, as announced in August of last year.

The strain on Syria s neighbors is immense, and the conflict is inexorably seeping into the wider region. Both government and rebel forces have committed atrocity crimes.

In most cases, Government forces were on the defensive as the rebel movements conducted small scale attacks against Government convoys or small units of army or police personnel.

However, the national disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) process was ongoing and could not be completed until the former rebel forces had been fully integrated into the army.

The situation worsened radically when a coup d'état was attempted in September 2002, which resulted in the division of the country into two parts, with the south being controlled by the Government and the north by the rebel forces, the Forces nouvelles.

These are rebel officers who had been nominated in the context of the integration of the armed forces command they include leaders of armed groups in Ituri and mere warlords.

A number of camps remained vulnerable to infiltration and or pillage by rebel forces seeking food, medical supplies and labour, and who raped or abducted refugees and IDPs, including children.

During that period, despite the signing of the N'Djamena Ceasefire Agreement in April 2004, the armed movements clashed numerous times with Government forces, the paramilitary Popular Defence Forces, tribal based militias (commonly referred to as Janjaweed) or some combination thereof.

During the reporting period, lack of security was frequently a factor prompting flight in situations from Darfur to Colombia and many camps remained vulnerable to infiltration and or pillage by rebel forces.

The Security Council recalls the demands on the Government of the Sudan and the rebel forces, as well as other armed groups, to respect fully their commitments referred to in its recent resolutions.

And the least popular became the most popular.

In Southern Darfur, 800 weapons were collected by the Government of the Sudan over the period of review as part of its effort to downsize the Popular Defence Forces.

Now the most popular option became the least popular.

Who doesn't love a rebel?

Calls upon the rebel groups

On 14 December, a helicopter strike by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed four men east of Gaza city, reportedly all members of the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees.

The popular upsurge in the Arab world shows that democratic empowerment hinges on two key internal factors the role of security forces and the technological sophistication of the state s repressive capacity. In recent weeks, security forces have shaped developments in different ways in three Arab states.

During the reporting period, the frequency and intensity of the violence committed by the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Popular Defence Forces, Government aligned tribal militia and the armed movements including in particular the Sudan Liberation Movement Army (SLM A) reached levels unseen since January 2005.

Violent confrontations took place between the rebel movements and Government forces, who were operating jointly with armed tribal militia, or at least in the same area at the same time and towards the same general goals.

But I was also a rebel.

Frank Gehry as a young rebel

a protection against every rebel satan

a protection against every rebel satan

The Al Qaeda led and Salafist extremist groups in the rebel forces, such a Al Nusra, have proved to be just as vicious as the government and its allies, the Iranian proxy Hezbollah and Iran s Revolutionary Guard. But the united view of Western intelligence services is that there is no evidence that these rebel groups launched the chemical weapons attack.

You cannot make anyone rebel against Him.

You cannot make anyone rebel against Him.

and to preserve against every rebel Satan

and to preserve against every rebel Satan

Can tempt anyone to rebel against Him.

Can tempt anyone to rebel against Him.

Tom was popular.

However, I have encountered rebel leaders who care.