The fighters fled after a brief gun battle, but government troops captured 20 of them a day later during raids on several villages in the region.

A lone fighter had fled in that direction.

They also stepped up attacks on guerrilla strongholds to the south, where many rebel fighters have fled.

The surviving Chinese fighters fled before the American fighters got a chance to close within can- non range.

Residents near the battlefield said the fighters had fled to Afghanistan.

The fighters fled after concluding that they could not stand up to American tanks, these Iraqis said.

The missile missed, eventually going into the ground after the Iraqi fighter reversed course and fled north.

But some officers said they feared that many Muslim fighters had fled into the hills with their weapons to fight Serbs.

The remaining fighters, with fifteen hostages, flee to northern Mali.

When the shooting began, the fighters fled into the fields with barely a trace.