21.   A bloody war ensued, with the rebel minority Serbs, backed by the Yugoslav army, occupying a third of the country.

22.   A day after Lebed told closed-door parliamentary hearings that Kulikov was among those responsible for prolonging the bloody war, the interior minister fired back at a news conference.

23.   Across the mountains in the non-Russian Caucasus, Abkhazians fought a bloody war to secede from Georgia, which put down another separatist challenge, from South Ossetians.

24.   After Lebed told parliament on Tuesday that Kulikov was among those responsible for prolonging the bloody war, the interior minister fired back Wednesday at a news conference.

25.   At about the same time and for more than a decade afterward, U.S. forces fought a bloody war with the Muslims of the south.

26.   At roughly the same time and for more than a decade afterward, U.S. forces fought a bloody war with the Muslims of the south.

27.   Canales said that as a member of the Salvadoran National Guard he was just another government soldier fighting a bloody war against leftist guerrillas.

28.   Castrillon Hoyos also had an encounter with Pablo Escobar, leader of the Medellin drug cartel, who waged a bloody war against the state.

29.   Chechen fighters Tuesday reacted with suspicion and scorn to a Kremlin appeal the previous day for immediate peace talks to end the bloody war in their homeland.

30.   Chechen separatists now essentially control their Caucasus Mountain republic after fighting a bloody war to break from Russia.