51.   UN officials on Tuesday said the Turkish army had seized Kurdish prisoners around the town of Zakho and taken them back to Turkey.

52.   Leaflets the army seized were in fact student news-sheets pinned on the wall, said lecturer Ziad Abu Hilal.

53.   Mahmoud Al-Aloul told AFP that he and his family had refused to leave their home when the army seized two floors of their building.

54.   Reports suggest Paet may have escaped through Cambodian government lines Wednesday night, one day after the army seized the stronghold where the three hostages had been held.

55.   The army also seized Tel A-Nasba, south of Ramallah, in an area under Israeli security control, from which they attacked nearby Palestinian roadblocks.

56.   The army has seized vast areas and is closing in on Jaffna city centre.

57.   The army seized Jaffna town in December and the rest of the peninsula in April-May.

58.   The Bosnian army seized the zone in an anti-Serb offensive last October.

59.   The Croatian army seized large areas of western Slavonia from the Serbs in a lightning offensive last week.

60.   The army also seized guns, explosives and devices used for detonating underground mines, it added.