11.   The militia controls two-thirds of Afghanistan including territories bordering Iran and captured the capital Kabul in a lightning offensive last week.

12.   The other two sections of Croatia held by Serbs in an abortive self-proclaimed independent republic was retaken in a lightning offensive in early August.

13.   The other two were retaken in lightning offensives in May and August.

14.   The Serbs are all former soldiers from Krajina, a region in southern Croatia which the Croatian army wrested from Serb control in a lightning offensive last August.

15.   The Taliban captured the Afghan capital Kabul in a lightning offensive last week and immediately implemented a strict code of Sharia, or Islamic law.

16.   The Taliban captured Kabul in a lightning offensive last week and immediately implemented a strict code of Sharia, or Islamic law.

17.   Two other regions controlled by the rebels were retaken in a lightning offensive by Croatian troops last year.

18.   Two others were taken back by Zagreb in lightning military offensives in May and August this year.

19.   Zavgayev and his ministers fled to Moscow after the rebels seized control of the capital Grozny in a lightning offensive last month.

20.   Washington implicitly gave the go-ahead to Croatia for its lightning offensive earlier this month to recapture territory in the Krajina region of Croatia from secessionist Serbs.