21.   Early Thursday, one Russian serviceman was killed outside Grozny when a mine exploded and destroyed an armed personnel carrier, the Russian military reported.

22.   Earlier, the military reported the five shooting deaths but took responsibility for only two and said the victims had threatened soldiers with machetes and iron bars.

23.   Earlier, the military had reported the attacks, saying they were on boats that guerrilla fighters use.

24.   Five Communist rebels have been killed and two army soldiers seriously wounded in a clash in the northern Philippines, the military reported Thursday.

25.   Gunmen shot and wounded three Serb men during a late-night attack in the sector of Kosovo under control of American peacekeepers, the U.S. military reported Saturday.

26.   However, the military reported no new clashes Saturday as the rebels apparently retreated into a mountainous region.

27.   However, by mid-afternoon the military reported no clashes.

28.   In Chechnya as a whole, Chechen fighters attacked Russian troops just five times, the Russian military reported.

29.   In daily accounts of the fighting, the Russian military often reports more casualties from explosives than from skirmishes with the rebels.

30.   In the second incident, a cattle rustler and a soldier died in a clash Monday in Malungon town in nearby Saranggani province, the military reported.