11.   It was the Macedonian military firing on rebel positions in the village of Malino, he said.

12.   Kabila said the Hutu guerrillas, who are well-armed, attacked the rebel positions outside the camp early on Thursday morning.

13.   Last month, with fighting raging near the border, a Zambian village was hit by two bombs in an Angolan attack on a nearby rebel position.

14.   Macedonian troops pounded suspected ethnic Albanian rebel positions with artillery and besieged part of the border with Kosovo amid fading hopes for a political settlement.

15.   Russia denied responsility and said its planes were bombing rebel positions.

16.   Serbian forces have also unleashed a heavy assault on rebel positions in northern Kosovo, reportedly with devastating effect.

17.   Smoke rises from a house on the edge of the Albanian dominated city of Tetovo after Macedonian helicopters bombed Albanian rebel positions on the edge of the city.

18.   The army hit back immediately, raining shells on rebel positions.

19.   The dispute about rebel positions here is the kind of obstacle to peace that is repeated in dozens of ways across Kosovo.

20.   The government uses the Russian-built planes to bomb rebel positions.