31.   Government troops drove the rebels out of Vaksince and several other villages in fighting Friday.

32.   Government troops were reported to be continuing operations to drive the rebels further from the capital.

33.   Government troops have driven the rebels from the cities into the northern jungles.

34.   Government-allied troops took the town of Kibumba after launching an earlier attempt to drive the rebels from Goma.

35.   He insisted government troops had all but driven the rebels out of Tavildara, Interfax said.

36.   He urged international consent for Serb security forces to drive the rebels out of the buffer zone.

37.   His strategy will be to drive the rebels into the jungles and reduce the level of violence.

38.   In May, the army claimed it had driven the rebels from the entire Jaffna peninsula.

39.   In Chechnya, fierce fighting raged around Bamut on Thursday as Russians used air and artillery attacks to try to drive out rebels hiding in old rocket silos.

40.   In December, the military drove the rebels out of their longtime stronghold of Jaffna City, a defeat which the government hoped would compel them to talk peace.