11.   But the Taliban have denied that their fighters killed hundreds of people belonging to ethnic minority groups.

12.   Death comes easily in Sierra Leone, where rebel fighters randomly kill and hack off limbs of unarmed villagers and government forces reply with scorched-earth bombing raids.

13.   FARC fighters also killed five men and a woman late Saturday in the village of El Habra in the same province, the army said.

14.   He said he had seen reports of Taliban fighters killed to prevent their surrender but could not confirm them.

15.   Hezbollah, in radio broadcasts in the south, said its fighters killed an Israeli soldier and wounded two others but did not mention its losses.

16.   In fighting Monday, FARC fighters killed four soldiers and wounded four others in combat that began Sunday in the northern banana-growing region of Uraba.

17.   In Kabul, the opposition fighters killed several Arabs and Pakistanis, who were left behind by the retreating Taliban forces.

18.   Israeli warplanes fired missiles at guerrilla bases in south Lebanon Friday after pro-Iranian fighters killed three Israeli soldiers and wounded four others in nightlong clashes, officials said.

19.   It evolved into a battle with mortars and machine guns until early Sunday in which the two Israeli soldiers were wounded and the Amal fighter killed.

20.   Israeli warplanes fired missiles at guerrilla bases in south Lebanon Friday after pro-Iranian fighters killed three Israeli soldiers and wounded seven others in nightlong clashes, officials said.