21.   Since the end of an independence war against Russia, Chechnya has been running its own affairs.

22.   So did pro-American Albania, as well as Bosnia and Croatia, two former Yugoslav republics who were supported by the United States in their independence wars.

23.   That was the year before a peace treaty ended a brutal independence war between France and Algeria, its former colony.

24.   That was the day perhaps hundreds of Algerians drowned in the Seine River during a demonstration, as France was fighting a brutal independence war in Algeria.

25.   The crackdown started a nine-month independence war.

26.   The group has been active in Chechnya and Dagestan since the Chechen independence war, and has said it wants to merge the republics into an Islamic state.

27.   The Israeli army banned women from combat after its independence war, citing instances of rape during combat.

28.   The Israeli army banned women from combat after its independence war, citing instances of rape.

29.   The Muslim republic considers itself a sovereign state following a two-year independence war against Moscow, which ended with a peace treaty this year.

30.   The protest came as France was fighting a brutal independence war in Algeria.