11.   Counter-insurgency police backed by the Indian army shot dead three separatist militants at two places in the southern district of Udhampur Sunday, the spokesman said.

12.   Crack Egyptian security forces shot dead three Islamic militants during a raid on their hideout while another group of militants killed a police officer, authorities said.

13.   Egyptian security forces shot dead two Islamic militants during a clash in the troubled southern province of Asyut on Saturday, security officials said.

14.   Elsewhere in the Kashmir valley Indian troops shot dead six Moslem militants in a gunbattle on Thursday, police sources said.

15.   Egyptian security forces shot dead three Islamic militants in a clash at their hideout in the fundamentalist hotbed of Minya on Thursday, police said.

16.   Israeli forces on Sunday shot dead four militants near its border with Jordan, on the southern edge of the Golan Heights, Israeli security sources told AFP.

17.   Israeli forces on Sunday shot dead three militants near the border with Jordan, on the southern edge of the Golan Heights, Israeli security sources told AFP.

18.   Israeli troops shot dead five Palestinian militants in a foiled bomb attack near the Jewish settlement of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources said Wednesday.

19.   Meanwhile, security forces Friday shot dead two militants near the international border in the Akhnoor sector of the southern Jammu region, police said.

20.   On Friday security forces shot dead three Islamic militants when they stormed their hideouts in the Abu Qurqas area.