11.   Locals said the fighters were killed during a battle against Northern Alliance forces at the airport just outside Kandahar.

12.   McCain sat ringside at a boxing match where a fighter was killed.

13.   Officials in Khost, the province capital, said the strike focused on the wrong gunmen, killing pro-U.S. fighters.

14.   Once the fighters are killed or surrender, a new phase of the Israeli operation will begin, said an army spokesman, Brigadier General Ron Kitrey.

15.   One Albanian fighter was also killed in a shootout.

16.   Palestinian medical officials said two fighters were killed in the raids.

17.   Palestinian sources said two Palestinian fighters were killed in separate missile strikes by Israeli helicopters.

18.   Six Afghan anti-Taliban fighters also were killed in the blast.

19.   The Pastrana administration has said the army and the police have indeed been focusing on paramilitary members, arresting and killing fighters in death squads.

20.   Two months ago, he used those weapons in combat, and recalled proudly that eight enemy fighters had been killed.