21.   Rebel commanders escorted journalists through Kalemie on Wednesday to dispute Congolese government claims it had recaptured the port city.

22.   The government, which has repeatedly predicted the battle would soon be won, may have wanted to show its progress by escorting journalists to the front line.

23.   The government escorted local journalists to the scene on Sunday.

24.   The Taliban also escorted journalists to the village, which appeared to have been largely destroyed.

25.   The Taliban soldiers who were escorting foreign journalists, the first to reach Taliban-ruled Afghanistan since the bombing campaign began, were absent.

26.   The ruling militia escorted American journalists around a crater-pocked area near the village of Karam over the weekend to buttress their claim.

27.   The Taliban escorted journalists, including an Associated Press reporter, to the site Sunday.

28.   The Taliban soldiers who escorted journalists to the hospital were not present.

29.   Filipino troops demolished several Chinese markers, arrested the fishermen and escorted international journalists there in May.

30.   Soldiers stood sweating in the bright morning sun, the buses were replaced by the habitual tank and the journalists were escorted back beyond a line of razor wire.