Many of the people in Cerska fled Serbian forces in the nearby towns of Zvornik and Vlasenica last spring.

In 1992, Colonel Deric fled Bosnian Serb forces who burned his home in the western Bosnian town of Kljuc.

As the band fled American forces, Lozen inspired women and children, frozen in fear, to cross the surging Rio Grande.

As many as 1.3 million Kurdish refugees have left their homes, fleeing Iraqi forces and trying to reach refuge in Turkey or Iran.

Mr. Dzasokhov said he had received instructions to open a channel to Alsan Maskhadov, who was Chechnya's president until fleeing Russian forces in 1999.

In 1917 it was burnt down by fleeing Russian forces.

They came across bridges blown by fleeing Japanese forces slowing down their patrol until division combat engineers came and either rebuilt the bridges or made alternative bypasses.

She has fled Serbian forces several times in recent months and said she could not face moving further, even though she had yet to find a tent.

His grandfather relates the story of the day he turned eighteen, fleeing German forces through the woods of France with a dying comrade hanging on for life.

As a child in 1944, she fled Soviet forces and her homeland by small boat.