1.   Reporters trying to follow the offensive have been stopped and threatened by Bosnian soldiers, who have thrown a cordon of roadblocks around Sarajevo.

2.   Tudjman blamed the atrocities that followed the offensive on extremists, criminals, drug addicts, and people dressed in army camouflage uniforms.

3.   Following the offensive, UNITA halted the already slow process of registering its fighters in U.N. demobilization camps.

4.   Muslims have borne the brunt of the persecution, but Croats also have suffered in recent months, especially following Croat offensives in southwestern Bosnia.

5.   Serb gunners have fired on several towns following successful offensives by the government army.

6.   Thousands of Angolans have fled to neighboring Congo following an offensive by rebels, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.

7.   Iraq will withdraw its troops from northern Iraq shortly, an Iraqi government spokesman announced Saturday following an offensive by Iraqi forces against the main city in Iraqi Kurdistan.

8.   Air raid sirens sounded in Baghdad shortly before Washington announced it had launched cruise missiles against Iraq following its offensive into northern Iraq last Saturday.

9.   But already more than half of the peacekeepers in Croatia have been sent home following offensives in May and August.

10.   Charikar was captured by the Taliban last week following an offensive on forces loyal to ex-government forces commander Ahmad Shah Masood.