11.   The overloaded phone lines crashed, which many callers took as confirmation that hostile forces had indeed destroyed communications.

12.   The refugees said they still supported the fighters even though the Serbian forces had destroyed much of their property because they suspected them of harboring guerrillas,

13.   U.S. forces have destroyed Taliban air defenses, transportation networks for resupplying their troops and dismantled their communications, he said.

14.   Yugoslav forces have destroyed homes and villages abandoned by the ethnic Albanians.

15.   Palestinians said Israeli forces destroyed two buildings used by gunmen, and Israeli helicopters fired at armed Palestinians.

16.   Outside the capital, Russian forces destroyed a bridge between Chechnya and its eastern neighbor in southern Russia, Dagestan, cutting a main rail and road link.

17.   A Harvard specialist testified Tuesday at the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic that Serb forces deliberately destroyed mosques and Muslim holy sites in Kosovo.

18.   A Harvard University specialist testified Tuesday at the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic that Serb forces deliberately destroyed Muslim holy sites in Kosovo.

19.   Also, Israeli forces destroyed three Palestinian houses in central Gaza near the site of a bombing Monday night on a main road, residents said.

20.   Arbour expressed concern that Serb forces were destroying evidence of war crimes in Kosovo.