11.   The militia has claimed responsibility for dozens of shooting attacks against Israelis and, in recent months, has begun staging suicide bombings as well.

12.   The pro-Syrian Shiite Amal militia claimed responsibility for the nighttime attack.

13.   The militia has claimed responsibility for dozens of shooting attacks and recently has sent suicide bombers into Israel as well.

14.   The militias have claimed responsibility for many recent attacks against Israelis.

15.   The Syrian-backed Shiite Amal militia claimed responsibility for the attacks in a communique in the southernmost Lebanese port of Tyre.

16.   The Taliban Islamic militia claimed Wednesday to have recaptured a strategic military base from its northern-based opposition.

17.   Iran has denied Islamic Taliban militia claims that it is involved in the Afghan conflict, but has reiterated its recognition of the beleaguered Kabul administration.

18.   A loyalist militia customarily claims a killing, portraying the victim as either a republican militia member or sympathizer.

19.   A Northern Ireland Protestant loyalist militia claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a northern Belfast pub early Monday during which no one was hurt.

20.   The pro-Syrian Shiite Moslem Amal militia claimed responsibility for firing rockets at the SLA positions of Rsheif and Jabal Hmayed in a pre-dawn attack.