11.   The crisis began in December when Islamic insurgents attacked the Indian parliament in New Delhi.

12.   The insurgents often attack soft targets, such as schools, hospitals, remote villages and vehicle convoys without military escorts.

13.   Two Tajik police officers and several rebels were killed when insurgents attacked and destroyed a police checkpoint in Tajikistan, Russian news agencies reported Sunday.

14.   Yugoslav forces were barred from using heavy weapons in the zone, and lost control of much of it when ethnic Albanian insurgents attacked their positions last November.

15.   Communist insurgents on Monday attacked military detachments in the southern Philippines, leaving one soldier and an undetermined number of rebels wounded, a military spokesman said.

16.   Election-related violence was also reported Tuesday in the tiny far eastern states of Manipur and Tripura, where tribal insurgents attacked several polling stations.

17.   President Chandrika Kumaratunga on Wednesday cancelled concessions made to the Tamil Tigers after a truce between the government and rebels collapsed when the insurgents attacked a navy gunboat.