91.   The separatist command meanwhile said its forces shot down a Russian fighter aircraft early Thursday afternoon after it bombed rebel positions in the south of Grozny.

92.   Turkish military aircraft have bombed rebel positions in northern Iraq in past months, but no large-scale incursions have been made.

93.   Turkish war planes heavily bombed positions held by rebel Turkish Kurds inside northern Iraq on Monday, local security officials and an Iraqi Kurdish group said.

94.   Two Israeli warplanes bombed hilltop positions near a village in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon on Friday, after an attack by Hezbollah guerrillas, an AFP correspondent reported.

95.   Jet fighters belonging to northern warlord Abdul Rachid Dostam bombed Taliban positions north of Kabul twice Saturday, sources here said.

96.   Jet fighters belonging to northern warlord Abdul Rashid Dostam bombed Taliban positions northeast of Kabul twice Saturday, sources here said.

97.   Mullah Rabbani said Rabbani jets had bombed their positions around Mohammad Agha over the past two days but the Taliban had sustained no casualties.

98.   One mission was flown by a pro-Rabbani jet which bombed Hezb positions near Maranjan Hill.

99.   Russian planes bombed Georgian positions during the siege of Sukhumi, which Abkhazian separatists have proclaimed as their capital.

100.   Russian warplanes bombed Chechen positions south of Grozny Saturday as Russian tanks threatened to encircle the capital.