61.   Eritrea, in turn, has accused the Khartoum government of supporting Eritrean Islamic rebels.

62.   Fighting between government forces and Islamic rebels continued Friday for a sixth day and Russian commanders warned the insurgents may attack the largest hydroelectric plant in Central Asia.

63.   Extremist Islamic rebels have long targeted Algerian journalists and other intellectuals in their four-year battle to topple the secular state and install a strict Islamic regime.

64.   For more than a month, India has fought to evict Islamic rebels from mountaintops inside the part of Kashmir it controls.

65.   For the past decade, Islamic rebels in Kashmir have battled to end Indian control over the region.

66.   Government forces claimed Sunday they killed four suspected Islamic rebels, including a deputy commander of Pakistan-based guerrilla group during a gunbattle in Kashmir.

67.   He is opposed by pro-democracy activists, armed Islamic rebels and independent bands of fighters.

68.   He also denied any link between Islamic rebels in Kashmir and the Taliban or the al-Qaida network of Osama bin Laden.

69.   He pledged to ask Islamic rebel fighters to withdraw from their positions inside part of the Indian-controlled Kashmir.

70.   He said they might have been headed to Jolo Island, where the Islamic rebel group Abu Sayyaf is based.