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“If something is not in Iraq’s interest, we don’t want them,” said Rahman Hussein Ahmed, a 51-year-old former fighter in a rebel group that opposed both Iran and the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Here’s hoping it inspires a new generation of rebel filmmakers to take the wheel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

It ruled "the temporary suspension" of bombings of rebel camps when there is intelligence information or other alerts about "the possible presence of children and adolescents."

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

George Washington and the Continental Congress hoped to sever French-speaking eastern Quebec from the rest of British Canada and bring it into the war as a 14th rebel colony.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

The realization that the one person she most wanted to show the rebel flag cherub to, and laugh about it with, wasn’t there.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

A humanitarian source said the Afar town of Erebti, near the border with Tigray, fell to the rebels on Sunday after being pounded by heavy artillery.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The rebels also clashed with government troops in neighboring Afar, in the sharpest escalation of hostilities since the end of the devastating civil war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province and one of DR Congo's most crowded hillside cities, was captured by M23 rebels in February last year.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

U.S. oil prices reached their highest levels since the beginning of June on Tuesday after Saudi Arabia announced that a wave of attacks by Houthi rebels hit oil facilities.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

To the man who piloted the men across the river, the strangers were unremarkable, just another band of bedraggled rebels heading home after losing the war.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

One of the main reasons colonists rebelled against the crown was that they wanted more Indigenous land—they wanted to move farther west into North America, but the king was telling them no.

From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026

Paraguay’s national anthem starts by stating that the people of the Americas were “oppressed for three centuries” until they rebelled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Haiti became the first independent black nation in the Americas in 1804, after enslaved people rebelled against their French masters in what was then the colony of Saint-Domingue.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

Many Americans in this 250th year of independence will look back proudly on those colonials who rebelled against British taxation by dumping tea in Boston Harbor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

The young Einstein rebelled against the notion of privileged frames of reference in physics as much as he did in politics.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Prosecutors say Mr. Mangione wrote in a notebook that he was rebelling against “the deadly, greed fueled health insurance cartel.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Speakers promoting AI are getting booed at universities, voters are rebelling against data centers, and even AI-friendly Trump administration officials are starting to retreat as an artificial intelligence backlash gathers pace across the United States.

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

"Maybe I was rebelling against everything, but not knowing what I was trying to aim for at the same time."

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara told Kennedy that, as a political compromise, to keep the Joint Chiefs of Staff from rebelling, he needed 1,000.

From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026

It was rebelling and would have leaped over the side of the mountain, to all our destruction, in its attempt to unseat me had I relaxed control for a single second.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou