91.   Raids were conducted late Wednesday in Lahore and other major cities and towns in Punjab to round up activists from both Sunni and Shiite extremist groups, police said.

92.   Several roads from Baghdad to the south have been closed to all but military traffic, said the Iran-based Shiite group, quoting sources inside Iraq.

93.   Several Lebanon-based groups carry out armed operations against the Israeli army and the SLA in the zone, notably the Iranian-backed Shiite fundamentalist group Hezbollah.

94.   The clashes between forces of prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and a Shiite group loyal to President Burhanuddin Rabbani started late Wednesday and went on into Thursday morning.

95.   The fight for control of Kabul has been aggravated by a new battle between two Shiite groups.

96.   The group is to monitor possible ceasefire violations by Israel and the Shiite fundamentalist group.

97.   The Hezbollah fire, which the Shiite fundamentalist group claimed in a statement, did not hit the aircrafts.

98.   The Hezbollah fire, which was confirmed by the Shiite fundamentalist group, did not hit the aircraft.

99.   The Iraqi communist party has suspended its participation in the INC, and Al-Daawa, the oldest Shiite group, has quit the alliance.

100.   The operation to round up the suspects was linked to a drive to detain activists from militant Sunni and Shiite groups allegedly involved in recurring sectarian violence.