1.   A U.S.special forces soldier was killed during an ambush in the region on Friday, and U.S. soldiers captured two al-Qaida fighters near Zhawar Kili on Monday.

2.   But he said the bodies appeared to those of Taliban soldiers captured earlier this year.

3.   In the West Bank, Israeli officials said soldiers had captured two leaders of Hamas in an attack on a refugee camp in Tulkarem.

4.   Russian soldiers did not capture Grozny.

5.   The Ecuadorean officer, Col. Pablo Vitelli, also reported that five Ecuadorean soldiers had been wounded and one Peruvian soldier captured in the fighting.

6.   Philippine Army soldiers captured a regional communist leader on Samar Island, which has long been a communist stronghold, the military announced Monday.

7.   A different hostage said he saw soldiers capture another guerrilla and lead him away, and was surprised when he heard all the rebels were dead.

8.   After eluding authorities for nearly a decade, Benjamin was captured by soldiers Saturday at a house in the central Mexican city of Puebla.

9.   American soldiers capture Calapan on Mindoro, leaving only a few pockets of Japanese stragglers to overcome on the Philippine island.

10.   Anti-Guei soldiers had captured the television and radio stations, the information minister said, but the claim could not be independently confirmed.