1.   But perhaps they were afraid to admit having sheltered a fighter.

2.   Moscow maintains that Georgia shelters fighters from the war in neighboring Chechnya and that visas are necessary to guard against infiltration.

3.   Serb communities will shelter fighters for the next phase.

4.   The church, they say, will shelter any fighter, Palestinian or Israeli, who lays down his arms.

5.   Damascus denies sheltering Kurdish fighters.

6.   Mountainside caves that sheltered fighters from airstrikes for weeks were abandoned.

7.   Syria denies sheltering Kurdish fighters.

8.   In the frontline village of Duba Yurt, residents negotiated with Russian commanders that the village would not shelter fighters in return for not being fired on.