41.   U.S. jets are still conducting patrol missions over northern Iraq from Incirlik, which is also used by cargo planes taking part in the operation in Afghanistan.

42.   U.S. special forces have been conducting similar missions elsewhere along the Pakistani border, with similar results.

43.   Buzzard is the fourth British-led operation in Afghanistan but the previous missions have been conducted in sparse mountainous areas.

44.   The Russian troops Tuesday were also conducting reconnaissance missions in the southeast Vedeno region, another rebel stronghold near where two separatists were killed, the Russian command said.

45.   There had been talk of dispatching one of his subordinates as an envoy to South Asia -- but Powell appears to have decided to conduct the mission himself.

46.   They are based in Croatia, but conduct frequent missions in Bosnia.

47.   Small groups of US soldiers are understood to have conducted missions in northwestern Pakistan alongside Pakistani soldiers in the hunt for extremist fighters.

48.   The mission was being conducted under a technical and scientific agreement with an Indian company.