21.   Meanwhile US IFOR troops completed a second pontoon bridge across the River Sava on the Croatian-Bosnian border, IFOR Colonel Konrad Freytag said in Zagreb.

22.   Russian troops have completed their withdrawal from Chechnya, the headquarters of the Russian interior ministry forces told the Interfax news agency on Sunday.

23.   Shortly after the attack, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz announced that Iraqi troops would complete their pullout from northern Iraq on Tuesday.

24.   The most vicious fighting has switched to the south-east of the republic after Russian troops completed their stranglehold on the Chechen capital early in the week.