21.   Aid agencies like UNHCR forced to intervene in conflict zones had seen their workers killed, relief supplies plundered and their vehicles hijacked, said Ogata.

22.   Army soldiers showed no sign of withdrawing from a conflict zone a day after the government said they would in a bid to relaunch peace talks.

23.   Bowing to international pressure, Russia has only recently allowed international human rights officials to go to the Chechen conflict zone.

24.   But Ecuador accused Peru of attacking its bases Wednesday and Thursday and Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori expressed concern that snipers may be in the conflict zone.

25.   But Indian infantry soldiers rested beside their guns on Sunday in the mountains of the conflict zone, hoping the pro-Pakistan fighters will withdraw.

26.   CNN-Turk television said the United States had asked for a unit of officers who could train northern alliance fighters away from the conflict zone in Afghanistan.

27.   Ecuador also wants to keep its military posts in place along the conflict zone that both side claim is national territory.

28.   Following the U.S. attacks in Afghanistan, Ukrainian authorities strengthened frontiers and tightened their visa regime for people from countries close to the conflict zone.

29.   Fujimori left Wednesday for the conflict zone with selected Peruvian journalists, and planned to visit Tiwintza and two other bases he says were taken from Ecuadorean forces.

30.   He invited reporters to join him on a tour of the conflict zone.