1.   Bad weather also hampered air and artillery strikes.

2.   Black plumes of smoke hung over the city following Russian artillery strikes on oil refineries.

3.   Israeli artillery struck the base Thursday in response to a Hezbollah guerrilla rocket attack from the area.

4.   Israeli artillery struck suspected Hezbollah positions following the attacks.

5.   Bosnian Serb artillery struck the coastal Croatian town of Dubrovnik for a third straight day Monday and a general state of alert remained in force.

6.   They regularly employ aircraft and massive artillery strikes against small Chechen separatist positions in the village.

7.   The artillery struck an Israeli town in a region called the Galilee Panhandle igniting a fire that was quickly put out, an AFP reporter in Israel said.