11.   The committee, with truce monitors from the United States, France, Lebanon, Syria and Israel, was set up to oversee the agreement to spare civilians.

12.   The military has continued to claim that heavy bombings and shellings have spared civilians, despite abundant evidence to the contrary.

13.   There has been no indication of major civilian casualties and Turkey has repeatedly promised to spare civilians, though European countries and the United Nations have expressed concern.

14.   Until recently, Serb civilians were mostly spared from attacks, as radical Albanians targeted and killed Serb policemen or Albanians loyal to Serb authorities.

15.   Under the terms of the April ceasefire, both Israel and the Hezbollah pledged to spare civilians in their conflict.

16.   Under the terms of the ceasefire Israel and Hezbollah agreed to spare civilians.

17.   Under the agreement, the guerrilla group and Israel agreed to spare civilians.

18.   Under the agreement, the two sides pledged to spare civilians and not to use local residents as human shields by mounting operations from inhabited areas.

19.   Russia Thursday called on Turkey to spare civilians in its crackdown on Kurdish rebels in north Iraq, a spokesman for the Russian foreign ministry said.

20.   Ten Israeli soldiers have been killed since Hezbollah and the Jewish state signed the conditional ceasefire in April, vowing to spare civilians.