1.   As the militants raced through the minefield and a nearby pathway to the village, Russian troops fired mortars while helicopters blasted the rebels from overhead.

2.   One helicopter blasted a Lebanese police jeep with a guided missile, killing two officers.

3.   On Wednesday, Israeli helicopters blasted Hezbollah bases in Iqlim Al-Tuffah, southwest of the Meidoun-Mashghara area.

4.   One helicopter blasted a Lebanese police jeep, killing a warrant officer and a sergeant, security sources said.

5.   Retaliating, Israeli helicopters blasted Palestinian security and political headquarters in three parts of the Gaza Strip early Sunday.

6.   Helicopters also blasted security targets in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, which was hit earlier in the day by air strikes, Palestinian security officials said.

7.   Israel Apache helicopters blasted the central Palestinian police station in the autonomous West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, Palestinian security officials said.

8.   A short time earlier, Israeli helicopters also blasted a metal workshop in nearby Jabaliya, injuring eight civilians, they said.

9.   An Israeli helicopter blasted a car with rockets in south Lebanon on Friday killing its driver, police said.

10.   But Lebanese police said their two colleagues were killed when an Israeli helicopter blasted their jeep with missiles as it drove along the Habouche road opposite the security zone.