31.   Government soldiers and ECOMOG troops are battling the rebel Revolutionary United Front, which has fought a long-running war in Sierra Leone.

32.   Government soldiers and West African intervention force troops are battling the rebel Revolutionary United Front, which has fought a long-running war in Sierra Leone.

33.   Government troops battle Serb rebels Sunday in northeastern Bosnia, and U.N. officials reported growing Serb artillery attacks in the southwest.

34.   Government troops continued to battle rebel Muslims and Croatian and Bosnian Serbs in the northwest Bihac area.

35.   Government forces have been battling rebels who have surrounded the capital and cut all but one major land route into the city.

36.   Government troops battled rebels in two separate confrontations overnight, killing eight militants, police said.

37.   Government troops battled Serb rebels Sunday in northeastern Bosnia, and U.N. officials reported growing Serb artillery attacks in the southwest.

38.   He did not say who was sending the arms, but the Zairian army, which has been battling the rebels, was likely behind the airlift.

39.   His face etched with grief, he told newspaper reporters that the military needed strengthening to battle the rebels effectively.

40.   In the southeast, where soldiers are battling Kurdish rebels, detainees can be held for seven days without access to a lawyer.