31.   On Sunday, rebels freed what were believed to be the last of the peacekeepers.

32.   On Tuesday, the rebels freed five other Rwandan nuns kidnapped along with the Spaniards.

33.   President Joseph Estrada said he would only halt the four-day assault if the Abu Sayyaf rebels free all their captives, including six foreigners.

34.   Rebels freed a food barge and its crew in southern Sudan but one relief worker remained a hostage, the U.N. food agency said Wednesday.

35.   Renegade Muslim rebels freed nine college students they kidnapped in the southern Philippines after being warned the military would attack their hideout, police said Tuesday.

36.   Tamil rebels on Friday freed two Indonesian crewmen whom they took captive after attacking a passenger ferry this week, officials said.

37.   The ELN rebels freed him.

38.   The rebels freed ambassador Tabare Bocalandro on Tuesday, almost immediately after Uruguay freed two of their comrades.

39.   The rebels freed four Peruvian men for medical reasons Thursday, including one man in a wheelchair, Red Cross spokesman Steven Anderson said.

40.   The rebels freed three elderly captives to tell the families of the remaining victims to prepare ransom payments, said police superintendent Issah Abdullah.