21.   Rebel forces attacked a northwestern Liberian town Friday, sending frightened civilians fleeing toward the capital, defense officials said.

22.   A car carrying the attackers was seen fleeing toward Ramallah, police said.

23.   A spokesman for the rebels, the Taliban force of former Islamic religious students, said the group had sent provincial government leaders fleeing toward the Iranian border.

24.   A Palestinian policeman at a checkpoint was killed when shots were fired from a passing car that fled toward Israel, Palestinian officials said.

25.   Another man who was in the car fled toward Bethlehem.

26.   Around two hours later, the two unidentified North Africans were given the money from the supermarket safe and fled toward the border on a motorcycle, police said.

27.   But U.N. officials reported most civilians from Strmica were fleeing toward Knin and said Bosnian Serb army reinforcements were arriving in the region from eastern Bosnia.

28.   Clashes between leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitary groups have paralyzed a southern Colombian state and sent residents fleeing toward the Ecuador border, local officials said Monday.

29.   Fighting subsided after Taliban and al-Qaida forces abandoned the area this week, some of them fleeing toward Pakistan.

30.   Following the assault, the attackers fled toward the nearby Chechen border, taking several captured soldiers as hostages, the reports said.