11.   Ethnic Albanian rebels from neighboring Kosovo have unleashed bloodshed in the former Yugoslav republic.

12.   Ethnic Albanian rebels are spreading their influence to places they had not controlled before NATO threats made the Serbian government withdraw many police and army units.

13.   Ethnic Albanian rebels declared Thursday that they have formally disbanded and are returning to civilian life, ending their eight-month insurgency for more rights in Macedonia.

14.   Expanding the area they control without having to fight for it allows the ethnic Albanian rebels to undercut U.S. efforts to fashion a negotiated settlement to the war.

15.   Ethnic Albanian rebels in Kosovo are demanding independence from Serbia.

16.   Fighting between ethnic Albanian rebels and Macedonian troops continued Tuesday in Tetovo, the northwestern Macedonian town not far from the border with Kosovo.

17.   Foreign diplomats scrambled Wednesday to avert a major clash between the forces of the new unity government of Macedonia and ethnic Albanian rebels.

18.   Friday, for the third day, police forces fired for several hours at ethnic Albanian rebels taking cover in the hills above the city.

19.   He said the ethnic Albanian rebels had been marginalized, and saw no reason for the Macedonians to escalate the conflict.

20.   He said the Tamil ethnic rebels are unhappy that parts of the cease-fire agreement are not being carried out more quickly.