Tomas Borge Martinez, the last member of the National Sandinista Liberation Front that overthrew the US-backed Nicaraguan government in 1979, died at age 81 overnight Monday. Borge had helped found the guerilla movement in 1961.
Marc Perelman meets Gérard Chaliand, an expert in war zones. Chaliand learned about the world and its struggles by leaving home when he was 18 and traveling the globe, fighting alongside guerillas and hopping from Algeria to Vietnam to Colombia. A fascinating journey which he recounts in his memoirs, the first part of which is being published here in France.
A FRANCE 24 correspondent embedded with anti-regime fighters reports on the rebel response to a counter attack by Gaddafi loyalists, who briefly retook the oil port of Brega.
Tribal gunmen freed all 47 hostages that they had held for four days in a mountainous area of the southern Philippines, a government official said Sunday. The hostages have been taken to hospital so doctors can their condition after their ordeal.
Tribal gunmen on Sunday freed all 47 hostages they had been detaining for four days in a mountainous area of the southern Philippines, a government official said. The hostages have been taken to a government hospital for a health check-up.
Negotiators have put off until Friday talks to secure the release of 57 remaining hostages taken by gunmen from a school in southern Philippines. The gunmen took 75 people hostage but later released 18, including all 17 children.
Colombian authorities said guerrillas killed three people and kidnapped a local council worker during an attack on a government building in the Huila province. President Alvaro Uribe promised swift action to find the lawmaker.
Chhattisgarh is the fief of Maoist guerrillas. The “Naxalites” as Indians call them, have done the rounds of the villages to forbid inhabitants to vote and boycott elections. Authorities have deployed 15,000 soldiers to reassure voters.
Peru's Shining Path rebels killed 13 soldiers in an ambush of a military patrol in the country's remote southeast, Defence Minister Antero Flores Araoz said on Saturday.
Southern Thailand is no dream holiday destination. In the last five years, more than 3,000 people have been killed there during an ongoing civil war between the Thai army and Islamist militants, whose existance was unknown to many.
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