11.   Reporters who reached the still smoldering village of Ivaja found at least four dead in the abandoned village, along with dead animals and scorched farm buildings.

12.   The Golan Heights is a plateau graced with crop lands and vineyards, but scarred by abandoned Syrian villages and Israeli war memorials of twisted scrap metal.

13.   The soldiers said they also searched an abandoned village in the area called Shodiaka.

14.   They had based themselves in an abandoned Albanian village, near Djakovica in western Kosovo, and had been able to cook for themselves.

15.   We were drawn from the car at another stop by an outlandishly picturesque abandoned village where Contrabando Creek joins the Rio Grande.

16.   We stayed in an especially dramatic one, the Taybet Zaman, a hotel built into an abandoned village.

17.   Abandoned fishing villages pepper the former coastline.

18.   Army vehicles and truckloads of troops rolled into this nearly abandoned Indian village Thursday, retaking a second Chiapas town from Zapatista rebels.

19.   Bases are generally caves, old railway cars buried in the ground or abandoned villages.

20.   Hundreds of Ukrainians returned Sunday to cemeteries in abandoned villages around the Chernobyl nuclear plant for Eastertide, bearing home-baked tribute and asking forgiveness from deceased relatives.