21.   Police have reported that five people have died in the fighting since Friday.

22.   Rosa, deputy director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, described the fighting since Thursday as sporadic.

23.   Sporadic gunfire was heard in Mogadishu on Saturday, a day after rival clans clashed in the heaviest fighting since the United Nations withdrew in March.

24.   The area has been the scene of sporadic heavy fighting since February.

25.   The attacks on military planes marks an escalation in the renewed fighting since the rebels broke off peace talks with the government last week.

26.   The account could not be independently verified, but both sides have reported heavy fighting since Sunday.

27.   The fighting since early October, he added, has caused disruptions in the distribution of food in the North.

28.   The Hurriyet daily reported that Turkish forces went after Kurdish rebels in their bases in Iraq on Friday, suffering five losses in the fighting since then.

29.   The PUK and KDP have been engaged in heavy fighting since Monday for the control of the Kurdish autonomous zone in northern Iraq.

30.   There has been no heavy fighting since the government and Muslim rebels signed a cease-fire last December.