1.   As Putin vowed to battle the rebels and to achieve the sort of victory that eluded the Russian military in Chechnya, Russian officials rushed to tout their gains.

2.   Dmitry Mokrushkin commanded a platoon that battled the rebels hand-to-hand for the square.

3.   He said the houses were destroyed last February in a grenade attack by Serbs battling separatist rebels in the village.

4.   If the U.S. government agrees to provide aid to battle the rebels, Uribe seems willing to be an unwavering soldier in the fight.

5.   Nigerian troops battled the rebels as part of a West African force before the U.N. peacemakers arrived.

6.   President Boris Trajkovski of Macedonia on Friday rejected an initiative to demobilize armed police reservists who have taken part in battling the rebels.

7.   So far, the paramilitaries have refrained from attacking the guerrilla enclave, even as they have battled the rebels across much of the rest of Colombia.

8.   That would imply that those who obtained the guns Saturday might try to battle antigovernment rebels rather than disarm them.

9.   Pastrana has said the protest was organized by a right-wing paramilitary group that has been battling rebels and massacring suspected guerrilla sympathizers.

10.   Pro-Dudayev forces have battled rebels for months, and the conflict intensified late last month with the capture of Russian fighters among the opposition forces.