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Sudanese rebels say they have launched a major operation against an area in South Kordofan which a controversial counter-insurgency unit showed off to journalists after "liberating" it last week.

MOSCOW, Sept 23, 2014 (AFP) - The prime minister of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk said Tuesday that rebels have removed artillery from frontline areas where Ukraine had also withdrawn, in line with a peace plan signed Saturday.

KIEV, Feb 15 (Reuters) - The Ukrainian military said on Sunday a ceasefire between government troops and pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine is being observed "in general" and that rebel attacks are infrequent and not widespread.

DONETSK, Ukraine, Nov 09, 2014 (AFP) - Intense artillery fighting broke out early Sunday in the separatist bastion of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, according to AFP journalists in the area.

According to some sources, Abdelhakim Belhadj, once the man on the CIA's most-wanted list, already took a group of several hundred Libyan rebels to Syria. It seems that Arab Spring managed to revive the old Che Guevara's idea of exporting revolutions.

The United States confirmed on Friday reports that a convoy of armoured vehicles including three T-64 Russian tanks moved into Ukraine from Russia and are now in the hands of the rebels.

President Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisor Susan Rice on Friday said Washington was providing "lethal and non-lethal" support to select members of the Syrian opposition, offering more detail than usual on U.S. assistance.

Ukraine's new president has enlisted support from the leaders of Germany and France for a call on Sunday to Vladimir Putin as a ceasefire deadline looms and after pro-Russian rebels released more European monitors.

KIEV, Jan 31, 2015 (AFP) - Fighting between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian forces in the east of the country has left 15 government soldiers dead and 30 wounded over the past 24 hours, Ukraine's defence minister said Saturday.