It was the second time this year that Mr. Sadr's fighters have battled the Americans in Najaf.

Hours after the hostages streamed from the school, several fighters remained positioned on the school grounds and battled fiercely, indicating not only their suicidal determination but also a high degree of planning.

Russian forces have advanced to within five miles of the capital on the north near Petropavlovskaya, where Chechen fighters were battling them tonight with small arms.

This show features the weekly wrestling action where fighters will battle it in the ring.

Druse fighters have been battling General Aoun's army in the hills northeast of Beirut.

Moreover they knew - without the need of telling - that the fighter in that car had battled and won for right.

There ahead was where the winged fighters had battled over their prey, and that far the furred hunters had come.

Its streets were turned into rivers by burst pipes, as fighters battled through waist-high swathes of mud brown water, street by bloody street.

A fighter over its own homeland could battle until it dropped out of the sky into friendly soil, the pilot free to fight again.

When the Islamic fighters battled the Soviets, people willingly gave the tax to commanders.