41.   However, the Chechen independence fighters effectively control most of the republic and Russian troops have begun pulling out.

42.   However, he indicated that it would not include direct negotiations with the independence fighters or other concessions ahead of the June presidential elections.

43.   Hundreds of artillery shells slammed into Bamut, a village in western Chechnya where independence fighters have been holding out for four months.

44.   In another was Chechen independence fighter Arsan Mukayev, who lost an arm Friday when a shell exploded in Shali.

45.   In Chechnya, independence fighters are close to losing their last strongholds in the mountains of Chechnya, after six months of vicious fighting with a massive Russian force.

46.   In Chechnya, reports from the capital Grozny said independence fighters had decided to pull out of the city in the face of Russian attacks.

47.   A former independence fighter in Algeria was killed and decapitated in front of his wife and daughter, the El Massa newspaper reported Saturday.

48.   A Russian attempt to storm Serzhen Yurt has been beaten back and Chechen independence fighters were in control of the key village in southeast Chechnya on Monday.

49.   A Russian attempt to storm Serzhen Yurt has been beaten back and Chechen independence fighters were in control of the key village in southeastern Chechnya Monday.

50.   All three take part in the negotiations aimed at ending the war between Russian forces and independence fighters led by Dzhokhar Dudayev.