51.   The Palestinians have kept to the timetable by submitting an action plan to fight Islamic militants and have resumed security cooperation with Israel.

52.   The Serb community in Kosovo is dwindling in numbers and there have been reports of low morale among the police deployed to fight the militants.

53.   The toll could be higher because the troops were still fighting militants Monday, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on condition of anonymity.

54.   The villagers were armed members of the local Village Defense Committee, who have been provided weapons and training by the state government to fight the militants.

55.   Turkey has fought leftist militants for decades and has been battling Islamic extremists who have killed dozens of people.

56.   Turkey has fought leftist militants for decades and has been battling Islamic extremists who have killed dozens of people, sometimes torturing them to death in underground cells.

57.   Violence in Kosovo has threatened to escalate into war since Serbian police forces and the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army fought Kosovo militants in February.

58.   The soldiers belonged to the Border Security Force, the most dominant paramilitary unit fighting militants in Kashmir valley.

59.   The Tutsi-led army has been fighting extremist militants of the Hutu majority in northwestern Burundi since last autumn and has come under regular attack by extremist rebels.

60.   Many are occupied by Indian paramilitary forces fighting Moslem militants.