21.   Tensions grew Thursday when peacekeepers asked for two NATO warplanes to buzz Serb positions in a show of force.

22.   The intensified fighting prompted U.N. officials Tuesday night to request NATO warplanes buzz the area, said Capt. Myriam Sochacki, a U.N. spokeswoman.

23.   The intensified fighting prompted U.N. officials Tuesday night to request that NATO warplanes buzz the area, said Capt. Myriam Sochacki, a U.N. spokeswoman.

24.   The United Nations asked only for NATO jet flyovers, and alliance warplanes buzzed the zone Saturday and Sunday.

25.   Turkish warplanes buzzed Cyprus in repeated low runs Friday, heightening tension on the divided island at a time of major Turkish military exercises.

26.   Four other warplanes buzzed the area and fired heat-seeking balloons to ward off any attack from the ground, witnesses added.

27.   Israeli warplanes buzzed south Lebanon, carrying out mock raids and firing at least three missiles at suspected guerrilla positions from where several salvos of Katyushas were fired.

28.   Israeli troops and their proxy militia retaliated by pounding Hezbollah positions in south Lebanon while Israeli warplanes buzzed the region, the sources said.

29.   Correspondents in south Lebanon meanwhile said Israeli warplanes buzzed the region intermittently Wednesday morning.

30.   Earlier Israeli warplanes buzzed the southern port of Tyre drawing heavy fire from army troops in the coastal city.