11.   In Washington, Colombia is in the spotlight because the House of Representatives voted last week to lift restrictions on U.S. military aid to fight the rebels.

12.   It claims not to be allied with either side, but to be fighting Hutu rebels.

13.   Last week, thousands of Albanian refugees poured out of villages destroyed by Serbian police fighting the rebels of the Kosovo Liberation Army, or KLA.

14.   Late last week, the Bush administration asked Congress to lift restrictions on military aid to Colombia to help the government fight the rebels.

15.   Namibia has suffered from attacks by Angolan rebels ever since it decided to allow Angolan soldiers to fight the rebels from Namibian soil.

16.   One of them, Sedat Bucak, is chief of a pro-government Kurdish militia that has been helping the army fight Kurdish rebels.

17.   One option would leave the task to a peacekeeping force from the Nigerian-led West African organization that has been fighting the rebels.

18.   President Gen. Efrain Rios Montt forms right-wing Civilian Self-Defense Patrols, which fight rebels in the countryside.

19.   Reports of how the government fought Kurdish rebels in Batman have led to a series of revelations about actions taken in other Kurdish provinces.