Chechen fighters will now regroup in the Caucasus mountains to the south and try to fight a guerrilla war of harassment and terror against superior Russian forces.
Instead, it hit an abandoned tank at a crossroads to the north where allied Kurdish fighters were regrouping.
Denied the use of a state-owned arena in Brooklyn earlier this month, the promoters and fighters regrouped at a sound studio in Wilmington, N.C., where they staged a live tournament Nov. 18 for a pay-per-view audience.
The fighters regrouped for a second pass their last, judging by the levering off of the mother ship at extremely low altitude.
Although Pakistani officials insist that the 12,000 soldiers they have deployed in the border region are keeping a lookout for Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters, there have been persistent reports that these fighters are regrouping in the largely ungoverned area.
But its fighters have regrouped under a new leader and in 2010, they attacked a prison in Maiduguri, freeing hundreds of the group's supporters.
The fighters have regrouped there since the American-led invasion of Afghanistan drove them out of power five years ago.
The TFG has information that foreign fighters are now regrouping and reviewing their plans and methodologies.
Arenas tells how the fighters scattered, soon regrouped to give birth to the FARC, the former fighters of Marquetalia hide in jungles and remote villages throughout Colombia, reorganizing to fight a war by using irregular techniques in order to some day seize power.