He had backed Bertrand since he arrived in the Levant and organised the forces that eventually broke the Muslim resistance in the area.

The siege of Sarajevo continues, as do Serbian attacks on pockets of Muslim resistance containing large numbers of refugees.

By this stage, the Aceh War was being used as a symbol of Muslim resistance to Western imperialism.

It was here that the fiercest battles were fought a century ago to subdue Muslim resistance after the Spanish-American War when Spain ceded its former colony to the United States.

At the head of a huge fleet and army, Phokas sailed in June or July 960, landed on the island, and defeated the initial Muslim resistance.

During this period, Adal emerged as a center of Muslim resistance against the expanding Christian Abyssinian kingdom.

He admitted to military training, but said that it was to fight with the Muslim resistance in Chechnya against the Russians, which was not illegal.

He later became governor of the island and was in charge of destroying the Muslim resistance in the castles and mountains of Majorca.

Lopes' troops also sided with the Muslim resistance against Portuguese occupation.

As from the beginning, the French understood that to attenuate Muslim resistance to their presence, mainly in Algeria, they had to resort to the divide and rule doctrine.