1.   A government militiaman on the front line told The Associated Press that the heavy firing lasted for about four hours before quieting down around midnight Tuesday.

2.   A government militiaman was reported killed in the fighting.

3.   Army area commander Maj. Fredesvindo Covarrubias said soldiers also found two wounded government militiamen who survived the execution Monday by pretending to be dead.

4.   Bandits killed a government militiaman and two of his relatives in a grenade attack in the southern Philippines, police said Friday.

5.   But Tuesday morning, government militiamen smiled and waved as journalists headed toward Charasyab.

6.   Forces of the former rebel Riak Machar were pushed back by government militiamen, who now guard the area.

7.   Four government militiamen assigned to protect a logging company were killed along with a civilian in an ambush in the southern Philippines, army officials said Thursday.

8.   Government militiamen killed at least nine suspected pirates in a high seas clash off the southern Philippines, the military said Thursday.

9.   In yet another incident Tuesday, Abu Sayyaf members killed a government militiaman and injured a Marine in a clash at Liang village in Sulu province south of Basilan.

10.   Police captured two suspects, including one former government militiaman.