1.   But the presidential spokesman, Zafar Saidov, bristles at the suggestion that the country is in the hands of renegade commanders.

2.   Government troops last month abandoned a two-week operation to wipe out an armed band led by renegade commander Rezvon Sodirov.

3.   A renegade Chechen military commander on Wednesday reiterated his intention to blow up a pipeline carrying Caspian Sea oil across Russia to the Black Sea.

4.   A renegade military commander led a siege on a western Tajik city Wednesday, clashing with armed loyalists of another warlord.

5.   A renegade military commander led his men to besiege a western Tajik city on Wednesday, clashing with armed loyalists of another warlord.

6.   A renegade Tajik military commander routed a rival warlord on Friday, sending his fighters fleeing to Uzbekistan after a three-day siege on an industrial city.

7.   A powerful bomb exploded Wednesday in the Chechen capital Grozny, killing at least three people outside the offices of a renegade military commander.

8.   A renegade military commander dug in Saturday at a collective farm in southern Tajikistan, while government troops sought to control another mutinous hotspot, a presidential spokesman said.

9.   A renegade Tajik military commander withdrew most of his troops from an industrial city Saturday after routing a rival warlord.

10.   A radio station controlled by renegade Muslim commander Fikret Abdic said his forces were taking ground from Bosnian government troops and seizing strategic points.