1.   American warplanes pounded targets around the city.

2.   As he spoke, warplanes, gunboats and tanks pounded targets across the West Bank and Gaza.

3.   As the cabinet ministers debated the decision Thursday morning, the Israeli air force was already pounding targets in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

4.   Israeli fighter jets pounded Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon heavily Monday as Barak promised to respond aggressively, using language that has in the past presaged massive retaliation.

5.   Israeli warplanes and helicopters pounded Palestinian targets in the West Bank and Gaza in waves of airstrikes, and Palestinian militants carried out ambushes and shootings.

6.   Monday, Russian warplanes pounded targets along the Dagestan-Chechen border and, according to the Chechens, villages inside Chechnya.

7.   NATO warplanes, meanwhile, are pounding Serb targets in Kosovo around the clock.

8.   On the war front, American warplanes continued to pound Taliban targets in Afghanistan.

9.   Several thousand troops entered Iraq on Wednesday, and Thursday they pounded targets with missiles fired from American-made Cobra helicopters.

10.   The occasional Katyusha rocket attacks from Lebanon by Hezbollah guerrillas have stopped, and the thunder of Israeli artillery pounding targets across the border is no longer heard.