61.   The Croatian news agency HINA said Serb forces near Celebic were encircled.

62.   The ethnic Albanian Kosovo Information Center said three Albanians were killed in an attack by Serb forces near Decani late Tuesday.

63.   The leader of the radical Armed Islamic Group was killed in a gunfight with security forces near the Algerian capital, the official news agency APS said Saturday.

64.   The guerrillas stopped two vehicles belonging to the Irish contingent of the U.N. force near the southern Lebanese village of Kafra, the officer said.

65.   The Israeli military said the Palestinian attacker, carrying an assault rifle and an anti-tank missile, approached Israeli forces near the Netzarim junction in central Gaza.

66.   The number of Russian forces near Botlikh was unclear.

67.   The Russian military command said it had completed an operation to encircle Chechen forces near the town of Argun, one of their biggest remaining strongholds.

68.   The three soldiers, who also were based in Macedonia, were seized by Yugoslav forces near the Yugoslav-Macedonian border.

69.   The soldiers keep an eye out for mule trains hauling weapons and supplies into Macedonia to aid ethnic Albanian rebels fighting Macedonian government forces near Mijak.

70.   The U.S. military questioned a man Thursday after detaining him at the site of firefight with coalition forces near the volatile town of Khost in eastern Afghanistan.