11.   According to the Interfax news agency, the Russian command said it would allow civilians to leave before attacking.

12.   According to Khaled, the civilians left Jebul Siraj because they feared the Taliban would see them as collaborators because most of them are ethnic Tajiks, like Massood.

13.   Civilians were leaving the area, officials said.

14.   Civilians were leaving Grozny and Gudermes in response to rumors that fighting would intensify.

15.   He said several hundred Serb civilians had left, but added there was no exodus of Serbs from Kosovo.

16.   In Sarajevo, optimism over a new agreement allowing civilians to leave the besieged capital was clouded when a car traveling out of the city hit a landmine.

17.   It was not clear whether all civilians had left.

18.   Pentagon says even Serb civilians will probably leave Kosovo.

19.   Russian forces claimed to have opened a corridor to let civilians leave.

20.   Tamil civilians leave rebel-controlled area.