21.   A Kurdish faction allied with President Saddam Hussein captured two towns in fierce fighting Sunday with a rival Kurdish group in northern Iraq.

22.   After an airlift to the western village of Kitona they also captured Muanda town.

23.   After a week of battling for Kindu, rebel fighters had made little progress and failed to capture the town outright.

24.   After Eritrea captured the town in June, both soldiers and officials said it would be returned to Ethiopia following a peace agreement.

25.   Bosnia this week, capturing towns that likely would be given to them in a peace deal.

26.   But government troops failed to capture the town because they ran out of ammunition, the soldiers said.

27.   But Mohamed Ali Aden Qalinleh, a RRA spokesman in Mogadishu, said his faction had captured the town alone and denied Ethiopian involvement.

28.   But that northern town was captured by troops last September, forcing rebels into the jungles.

29.   But the government captured the town late last year and this week invited an APTV crew and other journalists to come and see how the people of Jaffna live.

30.   By Thursday, the rebels claimed to have captured the town, although it could not be immediately confirmed.