Listen to Karen Coleman's report of her encounter with the KLA

The Kosovo Liberation Army is still fighting Serbian police to hold onto parts of the province it has recently taken control of. As ethnic Albanian civilians flee from villages that have been attacked by the Serbs, the KLA is fighting its enemies from the hills.

Although the Serbs are driving out ethnic Albanians from some parts of Kosovo, they have not managed to eradicate the KLA. In fact, the guerrillas still appear to be strong and resisting Serbian attempts to kill them.

Serbian police have lost control in some areas

About 15km outside Pristina there is a Serbian police checkpoint. Just up the road from it, soldiers from the KLA have put up a roadblock. Cars and boulders are lined across the road and no one can get through them.

As we drove up to it on Saturday, KLA fighters pointed their guns directly to us, fearing we may have been Serbs. They relaxed once they realised we were journalists and politely told us to wait for further instruction.

About 15 of them were guarding the area. A mixture of armed villagers and soldiers, some of them wore uniforms with the KLA insignia stitched to their sleeves. They had Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.

Further west towards the Albanian border it is clear the clandestine movement has control of large parts of the province, which it calls the Free Territory.