1.   Aliev called for hundreds of thousands of Azerbaijanis displaced by the fighting to be able to return to their homes.

2.   But Farooq also claimed that most of the people killed in the Char-e-sharif fighting were unarmed civilians who worked as farmers in nearby villages.

3.   Wounded troops from front-line fighting were being treated by doctors hindered by a citywide power outage, an International Red Cross official said.

4.   The military says it expects further fighting to be bloody as the troops would have to fight street-by-street to take Jaffna.