1.  A SCOTTISH researcher has been led to safety after being trapped in a remote wildlife reserve by gun battles raging between rival forces in the African republic of Rwanda.

2.  After about a year, Hamas, an Islamic fundamentalist group, emerged as a rival force.

3.  He was also a Manichaean, believing that the conflict between good and evil that he experienced within himself reflected a real war between rival cosmic forces.

4.  In some instances, there have been outright shootouts between the rival forces.

5.  Stepping into a fierce fight between the Army and Guard, Cohen is telling the rival forces to work it out.

6.  The Taliban now control more than half of Afghanistan, including Kabul, but it has not managed to defeat rival forces in the rest of the country.

7.  They have vowed to start a rival political force that could bring together a formidable alliance of regional parties.

8.  A volley of rocket fire slammed into a neighborhood on the west of the Cambodian capital Saturday after Co-Premier Hun Sen staged two military assaults against rival forces.

9.  After the handover, NATO forces immediately set to their task of separating the rival forces, bulldozing competing checkpoints and clearing mines.

10.  Armored personnel carriers roamed the streets as rival forces clashes with small arms fire in some neighborhoods, pinning residents down in their homes and shops.