1.   Such villages also suffered attacks from Israeli and SLA ground artillery.

2.   Along with other rural areas, the villages have suffered a crime wave recently.

3.   Some have seen their villages suffer back-to-back attacks by the guerrillas and the paramilitaries, only to be followed by army occupation.

4.   You can imagine the destruction and losses our poor village suffered as well as the hatred we felt toward the invaders.

5.   A telephone operator reached in Birjand said that there was no damage in the town itself, but that surrounding villages had suffered destruction.

6.   A telephone operator reached in Birjand earlier said that there was no damage in the town itself, but that surrounding villages had suffered destruction.

7.   He noted that the mini-warlords frequently engage each other in combat, with the result that entire villages suffer the consequences.

8.   His neighbour Sajjad Ahmed said the village had suffered many deaths during past shelling, but it was war that wrought the worst havoc in the region.

9.   Anti-Russian fighters holding out in the west of Chechnya say they expect their villages to suffer the same fate as Samashki, where Russian troops allegedly massacred civilians.