1.   Ethnic Tamil rebels have escalated the fighting, introducing surface-to-air missiles and deploying scuba-diving suicide bombers to sink two warships.

2.   Many of the deaths have occurred since May, when the rebels escalated attacks on civilians and the security forces.

3.   Rebels have escalated the war since the coup, launching more direct attacks on the outnumbered Tutsi army and cutting off roads to the capital.

4.   Serbs rebels brazenly escalated their battle in former Yugoslavia on Sunday, killing the Bosnian foreign minister and seizing more peacekeepers as shields against NATO air raids.

5.   Tamil rebels have escalated attacks to prevent the military from amassing troops in Jaffna Peninsula for an expected offensive against the guerrilla stronghold.

6.   Tamil rebels have escalated attacks during the past weeks to prevent the military from amassing troops in Jaffna Peninsula for an expected major offensive against the guerrilla stronghold.

7.   The civilians fled to neighboring Congo last week as fighting between the Rwandan army and Hutu rebels escalated.

8.   The minister hinted that the military also planned an operation in eastern Sri Lanka where the rebels have escalated their attacks on troops in recent weeks.

9.   The minister hinted that the military had also planned an operation in eastern Sri Lanka where the rebels have escalated their attacks on troops.

10.   Tutsi rebels escalated their civil war, displacing many people from their lands and disrupting farming.