1.   Eritrea seemed so confident of victory that the army escorted foreign journalists to the front on Tuesday for the first time in nearly a month.

2.   A bomb exploded at a busy central Gaza Strip junction Thursday as an Israeli school bus escorted by army jeeps drove by.

3.   A bomb exploded in a busy central Gaza Strip junction Thursday as an Israeli school bus escorted by army jeeps drove by.

4.   Even as they died, the British army was escorting food convoys out of the country and an indifferent British government did little or nothing to help the victims.

5.   On Monday, the army escorted journalists to the area for the first time since the fighting started, an apparent sign of growing confidence stemming from military successes.

6.   The train had no army escort.

7.   They previously had said the train had no army escort.

8.   The army escorted a group of reporters into the battered camp on Sunday, and dismissed the Palestinian claims.