Jayhawkers were free-state guerrilla fighters opposed to the pro-slavery fighters in the years before the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

On Friday,the UN human rights office expressed concern about unconfirmed reports of kidnapping and abuse of civilians by fighters loyal to Alassane Ouattara.

VOA: special.2011.04.02

They were the place where Indian fighters went to speak with the Great Spirit.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

It blames the Palestinian group for positioning fighters and rockets in civilian areas.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

And they have suggested that Taliban fighters were responsible for killing some civilians.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

Their fierce fighters became farmers who needed government help.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

Many of them were fierce fighters.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

They were also fierce fighters.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Late Thursday, fighters loyal to Commander Karey carried out a revenge attack on an al-Shabab stronghold in the capital.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Some witnesses have alleged that National Patriotic Front fighters in Liberia ate the organs of those they had killed.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Ahlu-Sunna spokesman Sheik Abdullahi Sheik AbuYusuf says heavily-armed al-Shabab fighters attacked Dhusamareb town early Saturday with gunfire and mortars.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

He said al-Shabaab is supported by more than 400 foreign fighters, and is funded by al-Qaida and certain foreign governments.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

But he said the number of civilian casualties was "greatly outnumbered" by the number of Taliban fighters killed in the incident.

VOA: standard.2009.06.08

In this alternate version of their life, Fiona has gone from housewife to heroine as leader of the ogre resistance fighters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

Many of those fighters were children, drugged and forced into murdering and mutilating their own people and sometimes their own families.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Meanwhile,the Pakistani army has blocked all entry and exit routes out of South Waziristan, where officials believe Mehsud's fighters are based.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

He says so-called enemy combatants, foreign fighters captured on overseas battlefields, should not be granted the protections of the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Taliban militants quickly claimed responsibility, saying 20 fighters mostly suicide bombers took part in the assault that began overnight.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Those veterans are seen as freedom fighters by Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, but as fascist collaborators by his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Pakistan's army says its forces killed another 51 militants in the last day, bringing the total death count to 751 Taliban fighters.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

Dr.Betty Maxfield, the army's chief of personnel data. She says Asian-Americans are more commonly found in non-combat jobs then as front-line fighters.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

But residents in Mogadishu say al-Shabab fighters have been searching vehicles Wednesday at various checkpoints set up in areas under their control.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

They lost everything they had but the clothes on their back." Wilson says these men demonstrated their loyalty and their effectiveness as fighters.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Major-General Khalid Rabbani said troops faced days of fierce battles with foreign fighters and,in the end, captured several large caches of weapons and supplies.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

There are credible reports that al-Qaida has operatives in various parts of Somalia teaching al-Shabab fighters techniques to carry out suicide and roadside bombings.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

The Pakistani army entered the South Waziristan tribal region last Saturday from three different areas in an attempt to completely surround the Taliban fighters.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

"Children,many of them are used as suicide bombers as well as fighters, on the one hand, that girls schools are attacked on the other.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16