1.   A schoolyard held several dozen graves of children caught by a mortar barrage this year.

2.   But in the last few days their forays up into the ridges have been driven back by mortar barrages.

3.   He knew they were wounded, trapped in a small compound and under almost constant mortar barrage.

4.   Shortly after the broadcast, Palestinians unleashed a mortar barrage at a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip.

5.   Ethnic Albanian militants fired a mortar barrage at police in a volatile region of southern Serbia near the boundary with Kosovo, a key government official said Wednesday.

6.   Guerrillas responded with intermittent mortar barrages, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

7.   Later, after another Palestinian mortar barrage, Israeli tanks fired two shells at a police station in northern Gaza, destroying it.

8.   The army said no one was hurt in a second mortar barrage on a fortified Israeli position.

9.   The government advance was preceded by an early morning mortar barrage meant to soften up the insurgents.

10.   The militant Hamas on Friday ordered a halt to suicide bombing attacks and mortar barrages at Israel, according to a leaflet circulated by the Islamic group in Gaza.