First they were driven out of their homes by the Israeli Army fighting Palestinian militants in the 1960's and '70s.

Mr. Karimov has insisted the troops were fighting Islamic militants.

Mr. Zeroual ran on a platform of continuing to fight radical Islamic militants while widening the political spectrum to include the secular and moderate Islamic opposition.

General Musharraf has vowed to continue to fight such militants and to crush terrorism in almost daily comments since the Bajaur strike.

For two years, neighboring Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan have been fighting Islamic militants, apparently trained in Afghanistan, who want to create a fundamentalist state.

September 26 - Nine Russian soldiers died in Chechnya, mostly fighting militants near the village of Bugovroi.

American military advisers arrived in the southern Philippines to help train Philippine troops who are fighting Muslim militants.

It is famous for producing great soldiers like Colonel Bachhiter Singh Sahota who laid down his life fighting militants in Kashmir.

A10 Algeria's President vowed to fight Muslim militants.

It operates under a United Nations mandate and is separate from the American-led allied force that is fighting militants in southern and eastern Afghanistan.