1.   Hannan said the firefight occurred Monday morning as an undisclosed number of Australian troops conducted surveillance on a suspected terrorist site southeast of the capital Kabul.

2.   Late Saturday night, the sounds of heavy machine-gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades were audible from Grozny, indicating a firefight was occurring south of the capital.

3.   The firefight occurred in the village of Tanusevci, the scene of another clash between the Macedonian border patrol and ethnic Albanian militants last week.

4.   The firefight occurred on Tuesday near the town of Nagcarlan, according to a military report.