1.   Children as young as ten were forced to fight with the rebel militia.

2.   Officials said that more teams of American advisers will be slipped into Afghanistan to work with rebel militias like the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance.

3.   These troops had been advising rebel militias, helping to direct airstrikes and working in small teams to watch and sometimes harass Taliban and al-Qaida forces.

4.   Those forces are training rebel militias, principally the Northern Alliance, and organizing their resupply of fuel and ammunition.

5.   Until now, almost all the U.S. troops in Afghanistan were special operations forces advising rebel militias or directing air strikes.

6.   A senior army official has been killed during a gun battle between rebel militia and government forces, his family said Thursday.

7.   Adok spoke in Geneva in ceremonies mark the entry into force of an international treaty banning the recruitment of children by national armies and rebel militias.

8.   Adok spoke in Geneva in ceremonies marking the entry into force of an international treaty banning the recruitment of children by national armies and rebel militias.

9.   Adok spoke in Geneva a day before an international treaty banning the recruitment of children by national armies and rebel militias goes into effect.

10.   Earlier this month, rebel Serb militias in Croatia were rounding up draft dodgers who had fled to avoid fighting, according to local Belgrade press reports.