The army is now cracking down on Assamese insurgents who are fighting for an independent state.

The founder of an Islamic movement fighting for a separate state in the south is dead, an official of the group said today.

He has been fighting for a separate state since 1952.

The guerrillas are fighting for a separate Tamil state in the northeast area of the island nation.

They have been fighting for an independent state for most of this century, but never as a unified force.

None of the three sides in Bosnia are fighting for such a state.

The weapons had the names of various groups fighting for a separate state painted on them.

The charges were "nationalism," as they had earlier fought for an independent Armenian state.

We are fighting for a united Serbian state.

The rebel force is fighting for a separate state.