11.   On Monday, border guards commanders announced they had shot and killed two gunmen who tried to cross the border.

12.   The agency quoted Maj. Mohsen Rezaei, the guards commander, as saying that despite the large quantities of live ammunition, the exercise proceeded without incident.

13.   The guard commander declares himself the new president two days later.

14.   The Interfax news agency said members of the guard and gunmen from the local self-defense unit clashed Saturday morning when the guard commander ordered his troops to advance.

15.   The judge ruled Kalejs was a unit guard commander at two concentration camps where thousands had been killed.

16.   The Russian border guard commander Gen. Andrei Nikolayev is expected to give an overview of the activity and involvement of the troops.

17.   The talks were held Friday at a border checkpoint and involved border guard commanders, customs officials and diplomats from the two countries.

18.   And earlier, an Iranian border guard commander told IRNA that his forces had repelled a DPIK raid Sunday on several border villages.

19.   But the rebels of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan were forced to retreat by government troops, a border guard commander told IRNA.

20.   Earlier, an Iranian border guard commander told IRNA that his forces had repelled a DPIK raid Sunday on several border villages.