11.   France demanded today that Russia explain its increasingly bloody campaign in Chechnya, as European criticism of the offensive sharpened.

12.   Instead, the Turks held strong for more than eight months, driving the Allies off their land in a bloody campaign.

13.   In the past, the militants have waged a bloody campaign against government forces, but casualties outside of Algiers have sometimes been difficult to confirm.

14.   Police said the material was believed to belong to collaborators working with ETA, the outlawed Spanish militant group fighting a bloody campaign for an independent homeland.

15.   Seven centuries ago, King Edward I led his soldiers in a bloody campaign to crush the Welsh nobles and bring Wales under English rule.

16.   Shotgun-wielding attackers killed a shopkeeper on this French Mediterranean island, where separatists are waging an increasingly bloody campaign.

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

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

19.   Stepping up a bloody campaign to intimidate turncoats, Mafia gunmen in eastern Sicily killed the father of three mobsters who are collaborating with prosecutors, police said.

20.   That plan failed when talks broke down and the rebels renewed their bloody campaign.