21.   Sadly, the shared interest in peace proved weaker than the distrust, greed and ambition of rival warlords, whose forces resumed fighting earlier this month in Monrovia.

22.   Russian forces Monday fought to reclaim the city.

23.   Should Northern Alliance forces soon fight their way into Kabul, Washington and its allies would achieve an important symbolic success.

24.   The anti-Taliban forces fight among themselves.

25.   The men were not far from the hill where Muslim and Serbian forces fought on Tuesday, and where at least one Muslim man was killed before they retreated.

26.   The Nigerian forces are fighting to restore President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah to power.

27.   The rebel force is fighting for a separate state.

28.   The rebel force is fighting for a separate state in a province where ethnic Albanians outnumber Serbs nine to one.

29.   Thus far in the three-month war, government forces have fought the rebels largely by bombarding them with rockets and shells.

30.   Without that, Japanese forces would fight to the last man regardless of what the government in Tokyo did.