1.   Somalia said that its forces had been pursuing anti-government rebels.

2.   Journalists covering the fighting in Sierra Leone say Executive Outcomes mercenaries sometimes machine-gunned civilians from its helicopters while pursuing rebels.

3.   Last weekend, Colombian soldiers broke up a guerrilla roadblock and pursued the rebels for days through the jungle, eventually killing more than a dozen.

4.   Over the next few hours, government troops pursued the rebels through the flat farmland ringing the capital city.

5.   Putin then announced that Russian troops would pursue the rebels into Chechnya.

6.   Russia has vowed to pursue the rebels into the highlands and destroy them there.

7.   Yugoslav forces have repeatedly pursued rebels of the Kosovo Liberation Army into Albania, and the shelling might have been an attempt to intimidate them.

8.   Plagued by rebel attacks, Uganda signed an agreement with Sudan earlier this year to allow its soldiers to enter southern Sudan to pursue the rebels.

9.   Police and soldiers blocked local traffic, and said they were pursuing the rebels.

10.   Abaya said some soldiers were pursuing the rebels on another island, but refused to elaborate.