1.   Anger at the alliance began building as the six-month old insurgency grew.

2.   India accuses its neighbor of backing the nine year-old insurgency in Kashmir.

3.   India accuses Pakistan of backing a nine-year old Islamic led insurgency in Kashmir, a charge Pakistan denies.

4.   The list of places torn by violence thus grew longer --Assam, the fight for separate Gorkhaland, the old Naga insurgency resurfacing sporadically, Jharkhand.

5.   Under heavy police guard, thousands of Algerians in France began voting Monday for a new parliament in their country racked by a five-year old Muslim insurgency.

6.   The peace talks are the first in more than a year to seek a solution to the two-decade old insurgency in the southeastern hill districts.

7.   Peace talks began here Saturday between the government and tribal rebel leaders aimed at ending a two-decade old insurgency.