1.   Army officials said there had been heavy fighting near the barracks and the Lesotho dam, which supplies electricity to the country.

2.   Between the crackling of static, the announcer informed us of the latest fighting near the Indian border.

3.   After the initial two weeks of heavy fighting near the border, the Russian military appeared to have chased many of the Islamic fighters back to Chechnya.

4.   Alliance forces suffered surprisingly few casualties, with one soldier killed and eight wounded in the fighting near Bagram.

5.   Rebel forces said the fighting near Dara-i-Suf was an exchange of artillery and heavy fire, not an infantry attack.

6.   Sher Khan boasted that he and his family walked through the White Mountains from a village near Jalalabad two days ago to escape the fighting near Tora Bora.

7.   There has been intense fighting near Tarcin, as the Bosnian army has advanced toward Hadzici, southwest of Sarajevo, in recent days.

8.   To the north, the fighting near the Serbian stronghold of Banja Luka was reported to be continuing at a low level on Wednesday.

9.   Outside of Sarajevo, the Bosnian army claimed to have captured seven villages in recent fighting near Bihac in the northwest part of the country.

10.   A spokesman for the anti-Taliban alliance said there was fierce fighting near the city but that the Taliban religious militia had been unable to enter.