1.   Following the ban on giving those coordinates, US fighter pilots in the war theater were briefed on the accident.

2.   Outside the Chechen war theater, suicides accounted for one-third of the army dead last year.

3.   The deployment is the second trial run for the radar system, which gives military commanders a real-time look at the war theater.

4.   Visitors fled a vacation paradise turned war theater.

5.   Ottunnhu is scheduled to meet more Sri Lankan and military officials in the northern war theater before returning Friday to Colombo.

6.   A Sri Lankan bear critically wounded in fighting between government troops and the Tamil rebels has recovered and returned to a natural habitat far from the war theater.

7.   In the northern war theater, government troops shot and killed nine rebels and lost five men Wednesday, said Brig. Sarath Munasinghe, the military spokesman.

8.   No independent assessment of the battle situation was possible since the government bars journalists from visiting the war theater on their own.

9.   No independent assessment of the battle situation was possible as the government bars journalists from visiting the war theater on their own.

10.   The government bars reporters from the war theater.