21.   The failure to pay the military has been the chief reason government forces have put up so little resistance in towns the rebels hold.

22.   The rebels are also holding a number of Japanese businessmen and Peruvian military and government officials, including Foreign Minister Francisco Tudela.

23.   The rebels are holding much of the countryside in the southern provinces, and the government holds the major towns, railheads and ports.

24.   The rebels hold the town, but only up to a checkpoint about a half-mile from the camp.

25.   The rebels have held onto many top Japanese executives.

26.   The rebels held the international community to their promise, made as the peacekeepers were preparing to move into Kosovo, and the bargain was kept, he said.

27.   The rebels held them there for almost two months.

28.   The rebels still hold two Germans, seven Malaysians, two French, two Finns, two South Africans, two Filipinos and a Lebanese.

29.   The paramilitaries gained their first significant stronghold in December, taking over a neighborhood the rebels had held.

30.   The Russian military said on Wednesday it has retaken all villages held by rebels in Dagestan, the Russian republic between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea.