1.   Despite long-held claims by the military that main rebel forces have been destroyed, insurgents wage daily ambushes and mine explosions throughout Chechnya.

2.   Shadowy insurgents have waged a low-level civil war in the north of Liberia for two years.

3.   Since then, insurgents have waged a bloody campaign to topple the government.

4.   Since then, Islamic insurgents have waged a bloody campaign to topple the military-backed government.

5.   The Afghan insurgents waged the last proxy Cold War battle between Washington and Moscow.

6.   Islamic insurgents have waged a bloody insurgency against the government for the last four years.

7.   Maoist insurgents have been waging an armed campaign in Bihar for more than two decades to rescue poor farmers in the state from virtual bondage by rich landowners.