11.   In addition to the villages in the Botlikh district, the rebels also had seized two villages in the southwestern Tsumadinsky district.

12.   Islamic militants have crossed the Chechen border and seized villages in Dagestan twice since the beginning of August.

13.   Israel seizes a village in southern Lebanon.

14.   Israeli troops seized a village in southern Lebanon on Thursday night, hours after their planes blasted suspected guerrilla hideouts, security officials said.

15.   Islamic militants twice crossed the Chechen border and seized villages in Dagestan since the beginning of August, clashing with Russian forces.

16.   Last month, ethnic Albanian militants seized several villages in the zone in an offensive that killed four Serb policemen.

17.   Last month, however, armed ethnic Albanians launched attacks in the buffer zone, killed four Serb policemen and seized several villages.

18.   Little is known about the rebels who seized the villages, nestled in mountains that form the border between Dagestan and Chechnya.

19.   President Boris Trajkovski accused ethnic Albanian politicians of being in league with armed extremists who have seized several villages in northern Macedonia.

20.   Russia launched its offensive in Chechnya in September, after Islamic militants seized villages in the neighboring Russian region of Dagestan.