1.   Kurdish rebels are battling Turkey in the hope of establishing an independent nation.

2.   Rebels battled government troops on the outskirts of the capital Monday in heavy fighting, leaving dead in the streets and the latest efforts to secure peace foundering.

3.   Aceh is one of three Indonesian regions where rebels are battling for independence.

4.   Along with government soldiers and a civil defense force militia, the rebels are battling troops from a West African coalition army, known as ECOMOG.

5.   Army and Hutu rebels battle despite peace talks.

6.   Army rebels battled French-backed government troops Wednesday and foreigners fled the country as President Ange-Felix Patasse refused to resign, reigniting a military uprising.

7.   But a U.N. guard in northern Iraq told The Associated Press that Kurdish rebels battled with Turkish troops in the Karkurk region near the Iranian border.

8.   Chechen rebels battled Russian forces in fierce fighting Wednesday in the capital of the breakaway region.

9.   Chechen rebels have battled for independence for three years.

10.   Congolese rebels on Thursday battled a pro-government militia in the eastern Congolese town of Bukavu, relief sources in neighboring Rwanda said.