Rebels News

Aleppo - Syrian rebels in the northern city of Aleppo have launched a major attack against the city's central prison where 250 anti government individuals are being held.

A video from Syria has shown a rebel commander mutilating the body of a Syrian soldier, and cutting the soldiers heart out before biting on it.

Kurdish rebels belonging to the militant PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) have began pulling their fighters out of Turkey, and back to their main stronghold in northern Iraq.

Geneva - Carla del Ponte, member of the UN Human Rights Commission, has unequivocally stated that chemical weapons have not been used by the Syrian army but by fighters among the rebels.

US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has affirmed that the Obama administration is rethinking it's policy on arming Syrian rebels.

Urumchi - A deadly fight developed when police tried to apprehend members of the Uyghur underground believed to possess illegal weapons in Xinjiang, a territory occupied by China since 1949.

Damascus - At least fifteen people were killed, with up to twenty wounded, when mortar shells were fired by Syrian rebels striking a Damascus university.

Bangui - The president of the Central African Republic (CAR), Francois Bozize, has fled the capital, Bangui, after rebels of the Seleka coalition entered the city and clashed with members of an African peacekeeping force.

Damascus - Syrian rebels managed to capture an air defence base near Jordan today, after a 16 day siege on the base. The capture will come as a strategic victory for the rebels as the base is located near an international highway linking Damascus to Jordan.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has stated that France is ready to arm the Syrian rebels, even without consent from the EU.