Half a mile from the rebel checkpoint at West Point, two Government soldiers had pulled up in a car and were talking to the wife of one of them.

The road east out of town, past the Italian NATO peacekeepers and the last, ragged rebel checkpoint, seemed deserted, the large brick houses nearby empty, the biggest ones burned.

Allied officers ordered Kurdish guerrilla leaders today to let Kurdish refugees through rebel checkpoints and into a safe-haven zone in northern Iraq.

Loyalist soldiers launched an attack on a rebel checkpoint between Jalu and Al Jawf, killing six rebels.

On 6 May, loyalist forces attacked a rebel checkpoint between Jalu and Kufra, killing six rebel fighters.

Some of the rebel checkpoints stood hard by posts set up by French paratroopers and British marines.

The loyalists traveled through narrow back streets in order to evade rebel checkpoints and changed vehicles to a black Citroën sedan.

The Zambians passed through two rebel checkpoints and then at a third found themselves boxed in by a force of heavily armed guerrillas.

A group of rebels managed to fend off a military assault against a rebel checkpoint outside of the city, but within hours, government tanks had captured the city's main square.

The bus from Denau to Kabul was stopped every couple of miles at rebel checkpoints, where armed men checked all baggage and interrogated the men.