11.   Armed assailants kidnapped a high-ranking executive of the state oil company, reportedly abducting him from his office in the capital.

12.   Armed assailants killed four police officers with automatic pistols in three daylight attacks around Algiers, a newspaper said Saturday.

13.   Armed assailants killed seven people and wounded five others Wednesday in southwest Algeria in an attack that radio reports described as a roadside ambush.

14.   Armed assailants broke into a home in western Algeria and gunned down two families, killing seven people, including an infant, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

15.   Armed assailants killed a high-ranking Algerian sports official as he left his home in downtown Algiers Saturday morning, a news agency reported.

16.   Armed assailants massacred dozens of people in suburbs of the capital in some of the worst carnage the area has seen in years, an independent newspaper reported Monday.

17.   Armed assailants opened fire at a United Nations relief convoy in southern Sudan, killing three officials and wounding four others, the official Sudanese News Agency reported Wednesday.

18.   Armed assailants set up a false police roadblock Monday on a highway near the city of Mascara, in central Algeria, emergency workers from the area said.

19.   At the northern end of the Jordan Valley Tuesday, Israeli forces engaged in a battle against armed assailants.

20.   At the northern end of the valley Tuesday, Israeli forces engaged in a battle against armed assailants.