Officials also have said Chechen fighters use the camps as bases.

By December 2002, 14,113 Chechen fighters were reported to have been killed.

She thought that there were about 100 Chechen fighters, but mostly remembers their faces.

Russian officers said at least 10 Chechen fighters had been killed today and five more wounded.

They felt that the area, dotted with groups of armed Chechen fighters, was in for more trouble.

It is not clear how many Chechen fighters there are left.

Russian troops, along with loyal Chechen fighters, now control almost all the republic, at least by day.

Russian military officials deny the troops did anything wrong, and say they arrested 100 Chechen fighters in the city.

No one knows how many Chechen fighters perished, but it must have been hundreds.

But, so far, no one has found a single Chechen fighter in Afghanistan.